This is a fascinating commentary on a ubiquitously used 6 second drum loop originating in 1969.
“During the 80s when DJ’s plundered old Jazz and R & B records looking for samples, Hip Hop in particular and electronic music in general were not the pop phenomenon and money makers we know them as today. There seemed to be a few brief sort of glory years back then, when the novelty of sampling and the rate at which it was being employed as a new technique grew faster than the rate at which any sort of copyright bureaucracy could maintain the law.”
