Said Deep's "Duck in Idaho" Is a Love Letter to Sampling
[Raund Haus; Oct. 23]
Just before MP3s and file-sharing became ubiquitous, the 1990s marked a heyday for a certain strain of vinyl-sampling turntablist. Armed with Akai MPC samplers and enviable record collections, artists like DJ Shadow and The Avalanches assembled entire albums from samples aloneâbricolages of forgotten LPs, dusty drum breaks, and disembodied spoken-word.
Twenty years later, itâs no surprise that The Avalanchesâwhose 2000 album,
Since I Left You, is considered a high-water mark of sample-based musicâhas experienced something of a second life. As so much of our world goes digital, thereâs a renewed craving for the analog experience these artists represent.