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That oldies echo in your ears is the result of a high-tech technique, digital sampling, that is turning pop music on its ear. Besides creating some unexpected new sounds, sampling is raising serious legal and ethical issues. "We're talking here about the ultimate instrument," says Mike Edwards, founder...
The concept dates back to the late '70s, when some enterprising disco deejay played a disembodied bit of an old record over and over again to give it a funky new spin. That technique took a quantum leap when the first electronic samplers were introduced around 1980. Unlike synthesizers, which...
Looking like a compact disc after a month on Slim-fast, the 2 1/2-in. MD is small enough to be played on a machine the size of a cigarette pack. But it holds as much music as its full-size cousin, and unlike the traditional CD (if something a decade...
All of which begs the question: Who needs it? "We'd like to introduce the MD to the industry as a successor to cassettes," says Sony president Norio Ohga. That sounds a lot like what the company said only last fall as it introduced the digital audio-tape Walkman. But...
Fracases like this only underscore the fact that if dance music is the hottest commodity on the charts right now, it still lacks cachet. The wasp- waisted Zelma Williams handles the majority of female vocals on the record, yet it's a struggle to fix her with any strong identity...