#HipHopAdvent (just letting you know what happened between 1986 and 1987 so you’re all set for tomorrow)

Samplers initially had very limited sampling time, so most sample loops, if used at all, would until this time have been created either by mixing duplicates of the same record on two turntables, or by “pause tape” technique (hit pause at the end of recording the bar, rewind the source, restart and record, over and over until you have enough of a track to rap over), or by very creative cutting up of samples into shorter bits, and then replaying them sequentially (a technique pioneered by Marley Marl). Advances in digital memory, such as the 1986 “turbo” upgrade to the E-mu SP-12 sampler, increasing its sampling time from 1.2 seconds to 5 seconds, allowing for sampling of a full bar of music, would change all that. As you will hear tomorrow!