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"There are things that you find by chance on vinyl that you never imagined, and vice versa when you go out with mics. A lot of emphasis is put on the origins of sound in sample-based music, and I really think it's important, but it's even more important what you do with these sounds: how they're put together, manipulated and arranged. If you think about it, lots of people have said that I have a particular sound, which is odd when you consider that all my material comes from other places. " – Amon Tobin, Interview with Radio Free Canuckistan
Where Time Becomes A Loop: Acousmatique, Rise & Fall
One of the earliest forms of electronic music was music concrète. Composers started manipulating sound stored on disk in the 1930s, but when the tape recorder became widely available after Word War II, the exploration of a new aural medium exploded. …