From Howard Shih Sent Fri, Jan 29th 1999, 17:00
From Howard Shih Sent Fri, Jan 29th 1999, 17:00
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Philip Sherburne wrote: ... > one question. several of the tracks contain a vocal sample that also > feature's in UNKLE's "bruise blood mix" of tortoise's "djed": "...let > some of the bruise blood come out to show them..." what the hell is > this from? i'd always thought, poor ignorant me, that it was just some > snippet that unkle had spliced into the tortoise track. but given that > it features on 2 or 3 of the mixes here, methinks it must come from a > steve reich composition. help? The sample comes from one of Reich's earliest compositions, "Come Out". The piece consists of two identical tape loops of a preacher(?) speaking which start out in phase with one another but then they gradually drift out of phase causing all sorts of cool as shit sounds/word interactions to occur. I believe he was one of the first composers to do this... back in the mid to late 60s. (correct me if I'm wrong.) Orbital did their own take on this w/the opening track on the Brown album. You know where Worf (It is Worf from Star Trek: TNG, right?) say, "Where time becomes a loop..." Howie