Painful and bloody:
I made some true beat loops at the music lab at Cal State by recording a Tribe Called Quest sample onto reel to reel. Rock the reels over the playback head to find the beat break beginning and end, mark and cut with a razor, then use splice tape to loop it. Had to use a mic stand and a pencil to keep tension on the loop while I dubbed it onto a cassette. Add some bass, trippy analog electronic beeping and rap vocals and you have my first studio track in 1994, The Man with the Actual Dope. It had a sample of a TV news reporter saying "the man with the actual dope" and the vocals actually had to...
Indie Rock Cafe Live:
Indie Rock Cafe is now broadcasting live! Check out the broadcast times at http://indierockcafe.net
Hope to see you there.
The Prongster