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Old school house was mostly sampled just like old school D'n'B, but I don't think that's the case anymore. It's definitely easier to sample because jazz/funk is complicated and often improvised, but learning it is worth it in my opinion (I haven't picked up much, but baby steps are better than no steps).
All that aside, I've never found the rules of sampling in a mix to be much different from the rules for synthesis. The only difference is that some samples you get were not made for electronic music, so they require more tweaking than synth sounds. But it's the same tweaking: EQ, reverb, maybe a harmonic exciter/compressor/multiband comp. Sometimes you'll need to do noise reduction or crackle reduction depending on the source material - Waves has some good plugins to deal with that.
It's sometimes hard to get the rhythm in sync, although that's the same as dealing with any vocals. You can use Cubase internally or an external program like ReCycle or Ableton Live to make that work.
You have to make it fit. Very often that'll mean using more organic sounds than you typically use in trance (softer kicks with less high end, for example, and deeper basses). But mostly it's just a matter of mixing like any other genre.
That's my two cents anyway.
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