usually i ' ll isolate a few sections to loop . i also have a bunch of samples i have cropped out of other tunes that i ' ll experiment with over the top . for these i have a session in ableton that acts as a sandbox , i browse my library and look listen for sounds to save for later then slice crop then organise them in a folder by length . ' short ' folder for sounds that are 01 secs , ' med ' 18 seconds and ' long ' 8 seconds is my preferred method for organisation . once i have about 150 sounds i make a new volume so i can keep track of what sounds were cropped most recently . for me , mashing up multiple songs is part of the fun of VW production . in classical music or maybe even just trance the ' skill ' is writing interesting melodies and chord progressions but with vaporwave , hip hop and any other sample based music i find the skill is recontextualising different sounds and making them work together in a whole new context . not to discredit vape and hip hop that is entirely written from the ground up by a producer composer but these folks are defs in the minority .