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*[[Trax Records]] is founded *[[Trax Records]] is founded
*Digital sampling is launched with the [[Emulator]] *Digital sampling is launched with the [[Emulator]]
-**1983: The new Emulator -- the first digital [[sampling]] keyboard. When sounds were programmed into it, the Emulator could "play" breaking glass or vocal fragments from other records, or it could make countermelodies out of just about any sound "tuned" as a musical note. Its first use in a dance record was a subtle one: in [[Cuba Gooding]]'s revival of his former group [[The Main Ingredient]]'s "[[Happiness Is Just Around The Bend]]" coproducer [[John Robie]] created a background chorus out of one syllable, "bop," sung into the Emulator and played back as a chord. Of course, sampling had gone on for much longer ... because ... what is sampling but digitized scratching? --jahsonic [Jul 2004] +**1983: The new Emulator -- the first digital [[sampling]] keyboard. When sounds were programmed into it, the Emulator could "play" breaking glass or vocal fragments from other records, or it could make countermelodies out of just about any sound "tuned" as a musical note. Its first use in a dance record was a subtle one: in [[Cuba Gooding]]'s revival of his former group [[The Main Ingredient]]'s "[[Happiness Is Just Around the Bend]]" coproducer [[John Robie]] created a background chorus out of one syllable, "bop," sung into the Emulator and played back as a chord. Of course, sampling had gone on for much longer ... because ... what is sampling but digitized scratching? --jahsonic [Jul 2004]
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*[[This Is Not a Love Song (Public Image Ltd song)|This Is Not a Love Song]] by Public Image Ltd *[[This Is Not a Love Song (Public Image Ltd song)|This Is Not a Love Song]] by Public Image Ltd
*[[It's Like That (Run-D.M.C. song)|It's like That]] by Run-D.M.C. *[[It's Like That (Run-D.M.C. song)|It's like That]] by Run-D.M.C.
-*[[Happiness Is Just Around The Bend|Love Is Just Around The Bend]] by Cuba Gooding+*[[Happiness Is Just Around the Bend|Love Is Just Around The Bend]] by Cuba Gooding
*[[Baby I'm Scared of You]] by Womack & Womack *[[Baby I'm Scared of You]] by Womack & Womack
*[[I Need You Now]] by Sinnamon *[[I Need You Now]] by Sinnamon

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"In 1983 Grandmaster Melle Mel releases "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)", copying the bassline of "Cavern". 99 Records sues Sugar Hill Records for the similarities. However, when Sugar Hill is ordered to pay $660,000 in damages, it declares bankruptcy shortly after." --Sholem Stein

"Putain, putain, c'est vachement bien, nous sommes quand même tous des Européens."--"Putain putain" (1983) by TC Matic

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1983 was the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade. The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.

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    • 1983: The new Emulator -- the first digital sampling keyboard. When sounds were programmed into it, the Emulator could "play" breaking glass or vocal fragments from other records, or it could make countermelodies out of just about any sound "tuned" as a musical note. Its first use in a dance record was a subtle one: in Cuba Gooding's revival of his former group The Main Ingredient's "Happiness Is Just Around the Bend" coproducer John Robie created a background chorus out of one syllable, "bop," sung into the Emulator and played back as a chord. Of course, sampling had gone on for much longer ... because ... what is sampling but digitized scratching? --jahsonic [Jul 2004]

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