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A History of Sampling, Part Two: Creativity in Court

Ridiculous History

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The Importance of Having a Harp

With turntables, you can just buy the record. You don't have to know a sax player or even a drummer because that method that you're talking about, that DJ Cool Herk was doing to extend those beats. And then we know that DJs from particularly the South Bronx were manipulating vinyl, right? There are different schools of thought. We should also shout out a producer, Marley Marl. This guy chopped up drum breaks, kind of like a music concrete thing,. He chopped up Drum breaks to make new drum patterns. It's pretty cool.

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