Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:03:47 -0800
philipm@isd.canberra.edu.au wrote:
> was lo fi sampling back in the day *that* unusual? i always though that
> the deeelite stuff was pretty slick anyway, gratuitously unusual sample
> sources def but i wouldn't call it lo fi...???
By today's standards, it was slick. I've been sampling things since the mid-late
80s. Believe me, back in '89-'90, the most lo-fi you got was a loop sampled from
a scratchy record. And back then, most hip-hop, though using some low-fi
samples, relied on the 808 to provide the beat.
The only things people sampled back then was drum hits, orchestral hits and drum
loops. Also live instrument *sounds* were fully sampled back then, which is not
much the case now that synthesizer technology has gotten a little more
streamlined. Sampled basslines, riffs, whole chord progressions (wihout rhythm
tracks as part of the sample) and the like were pretty rare back then,
especially if they were played beyond the "trigger-and-repeat" way of playing.
Now, we've got whole albums with songs made with nothing but samples, which are
chopped, sliced, diced, filtered, ring modulated, vocoded and whatnot so much
that the original sound could no longer be recognixable. Back then, it was
rather odd.
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