It takes a nation of millions to hold us back
By: Christopher R. Weingarten
Series: 33 1/3; 33 1/3
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780826429131
Other titles: Nation of millions
Description: "Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing even occasionally stomping on vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production techniques that have never been duplicated, the Bomb Squad plundered and reconfigured their own compositions to make frenetic splatter collages; they played samples by hand together in a room like a rock band to create a not quite right tension; they hand-picked their samples from only the ugliest squawks and sirens."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Yes; title: the rhythm, the rebel"; title: "This is a sampling sport"; title: "Back; title: caught you looking for the same thing"; title: "Beat is the father of your rock'n'roll"; title: "Consider yourselves warned"; title: "All in, we're gonna win"; title: "Def Jam tells you who I am"; title: "Here we go again."