Timbaland’s distinctive sound effects and Kanye West’s sample choices are among the technology initiatives explored in “Musicians Who Rely on Technology to Create Their Sounds.”
The PotentialofUs.com story points to Timbaland’s work with Aaliyah as one of the highlights of the Virginia musician’s career.
“Having a strong repertoire of beat-box and self-made sounds,” the item says, “Timbaland changed the game when he broke down a baby’s cry from the band Perrey and Kingsley’s song ‘Countdown at 6’ and reconstructed it as the main beat for Aaliyah’s 1996 hit ‘Are You That Somebody.’”
Elsewhere, the article refers to West as having a “genius-level of sampling.”
“Everything from changing the tempo of a Michael Jackson run and using it as the background for ‘Good Life’ or taking the old ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ and adding a bit of edge, Kanye has mastered the art of song sampling and sound looping made popular by Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs in the early 1990s,” the PotentialofUs.com story says. “Kanye did things with music that weren’t possible before. With technology-based sound, things have a tendency to drift heavily into the electronic or fusion genres, but Kanye’s done an amazing job with maintaining his Hip Hop roots while expanding the palette of his Pop-centric listeners.”
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Timbaland just produced the biggest turd of his career with that new Rick Ross and Jay-Z single. Talk about phoning it in. Where’s Danja at?
This is all bullshit. They are saying Sean Puffy Combs made sampling popular? Are you serious? Shit has been in hip hop since DAY ONE. If you want to talk about taking sampling to another level, look at J Dilla, Dr Dre who was the first one to really interpolate samples and take them to another level, Pete Rock, DJ Premier and all his flips. Kanye is good at sampling but he’s not even close to them.
all those legends you listed you give props to some lesser known names who did it before them and influenced them
wtf is this person doing and wtf are they on about??