If you really want to get serious about tracing the origins of what we today call "sampling," you can trace them back at least to some novelty hits of the 1950s. And what about The Beatles? Isn't there anything in their canon that could be termed sampling?
The ironic thing about the Kate Bush record you mention is that it was not very well received when it came out. It was considered way too experimental... my fave KB record is, and remains, Never For Ever. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 10/10/2002 01:58:48 GMT Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< But even more - this means that in 1988, while sampling was already being >done, Joni was one of the earlier samplers, and at that point, perhaps the >most >mainstream artist of those experimenting with sampling. >> > >At this point, I must raise an appreciative voice for a very English genius: >Kate Bush. Kate was up at dawn in the day of the sampler. Check out the >title song to her 1982 album The Dreaming, which contains the earliest use I >know of of that orchestral "stab" that was simply EVERYWHERE for some time >afterwards. That song also contains strong aboriginal influences, way before >"world music" was in vogue, not to mention Rolf Harris on didgeridu. > >By the time Joni got to it, it was well established, I'd say. > >Azeem in London
