Hey everybody, it's Dan from The Vergecast. On this week's interview episode, we have

Verge Music Reporter and host of our video series Future Music, Danny Deal. You don't know Danny,

she's incredible, she's a DJ herself, she is our Music Reporter, some of the most interesting

reporting we do around music and platforms. She has a series called Future Music. So we're in

season two, on this episode we're going to focus on two specific episodes of Future Music. One

about how music sampling has changed the way people are writing music. And the other about how

music streaming platforms are reshaping the music industry. Advances and technology have not only

affected the way people get their sounds or create their sounds, but it's also affected the actual

release process, how artists put their music out into the world. So you're going to hear some clips

from Future Music throughout this interview. Danny talks to some great artists about how they're

making music and you're going to hear from them. This is kind of a different interview episode for us.

I'm very excited about it. Let me know what you think. Here we go.

Danny, you're making the Future Music. Tell us what that show is.

Wow, so the Future of Music is a show that all of these different aspects of what the Future

of Music really means because there's all these different directions when it comes to music,

how the music is made, how the music is released, how things become viral, why do certain genres

become more popular than others. And so we look at all of these different tangents and try to bring

them back to what does that mean for musicians and for music culture right now.

Okay, so here's a clip from the episode all about music sampling.

Sampling is the creative art of cutting and pasting audio and it's been used to create hits for

decades and it's become this global industry where producers can buy and sell sounds online to

use in their own work. Top Latin pop producers, Andres Torres and Mauricio Renjivo make

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