Pioneering sample-based musician Girl Talk had just as much as we did to say about copyright laws and intellectual property when we sat down with him in October.
Steve Stein, a pioneer of sample collages, chopped up JFK's most famous speeches with news coverage of Kennedy's assassination from Dallas radio stations and CBS's Walter Cronkite to create both an unnerving audio biography and a commentary on the media.
Blank was initially a truck driver, but transformed himself – "without musical training or manuals" – into one of the pioneers of sampling culture.
Much like an art exhibition, the playback room will be devoted to one artist at a time – the first being Colourbox, the 80s indie act whose pioneering use of sampling put them in music's vanguard, and whose collaboration with fellow band AR Kane resulted in a No 1 hit – Pump Up the Volume by M/A/R/R/S.
Its fusion of the austerity of the new electronics with funky backbeats, of sprightly guitars with West African percussive rhythms, its pioneering use of sampling techniques and experiments with ambient soundscapes - all of this would, in time, come to seem merely routine (if not on one single album) but, back then, the effect was startling.
Within a short time he performed pioneering research in sampling theory which led to his Dr. rer.
Hip-hop producers sample his pioneering electronic experiments.
Early studies used small samples and pioneering therapists, enthused by the new approach; more recent studies use bigger samples, and inevitably involve therapists with a wider range of talent levels.
The storied house music producer Todd Edwards is two decades into a groundbreaking career in which he pioneered the cut-up sample technique that gave birth to the U.K. garage style of dance music, earning him the nickname "Todd the God" with aficionados.
From soundsystems in Jamaica cutting 'dubs' to win over audiences, to early hip-hop producers pioneering the use of sampling, to New York's early 80's disco producers creating extended versions of tracks and the eventual rise in the early 2000s of crude and cheesy mashups.
From soundsystems in Jamaica cutting "dubs" to win over audiences, to early hip-hop producers pioneering the use of sampling, to New York's early 80s disco producers creating extended versions of tracks, and the eventual rise in the early 2000s of crude and cheesy mashups.
