Specific machines produced specific eras. The limitations did as much shaping as the features. You can date a great deal...
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A marketing term that happened to name something real: live playing, loose timing, and a deliberate turn away from the...
Court decisions in the early nineties made dense sample collage economically impossible. Producers adapted, and the sound changed. The records...
A small number of house bands played on an enormous share of the records. The consistency was not an accident....
National distribution usually flattens regional difference. In hip-hop it kept producing new ones. Most genres converge as distribution widens. Hip-hop...
