MUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: J Dilla, Dj Kool Herc, Dj Kool
Lecture 5: Recorded Audio and Sampling Pt. 2
❖ Williams Mix
• Ceated i Louis ad Bee Bao’s Ne Yok “tudio
• 8-tracks of tape, 192-page score, 20 inches of tape per page
• Score classified sounds according to 6 categories
o City sounds
o Country sounds
o Electronic sounds
o Manually produced sounds (including music)
o Wind produced sounds (including songs)
o sall souds euiig aplifiatio
❖ Interpeting the score in the 21st century Tom Erbe’s arrageet
• Cage’s tape soe
• Library of 500-600 new sounds
• Patch written in Puredata
❖ Hip Hop and the Bronx
• ’s Bo
o Cross-bronx expressway condemned entire neighborhoods and relocated
60,000 residents
o No jobs and bad public housing, Youth unemployment rate 60%
o Slumlords hiring arsonists to burn down buildings so they could collect
insurance $$
o Gangs, both productive and destructive
❖ Hip hop’s begiigs
• DJ Kool Herc, born in Jamaica and emigrated to New York
• Musical influence
o MC/DJ traditions in Jamaica
o Disco Breaks " break beats in hip hop
• Eal Hip Hop Cultue ’s
• Sampling
o Ultimate Breaks and Beats (25-record collection)
o Use of Sampler (instrument, see J Dilla)
❖ Gradaster Flash Advetures of Gradaster Flash o the Wheels of
“teel, 11 Brox, NY
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