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Ways of Hearing 1 – TIME

Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz

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Hip Hop Turntables - What's the Difference?

Hip hop DJs used speed controls on turntables to change the tempo of a record. Or in the studio, to pile up samples from older records and make a new one. In 1990, a tribe called Quest sampled Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" They also had to give up on collecting any royalties.

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