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I did some pause tape beats too back in 91-95? There was not really much information being passed around back then unless you were around other producers. Most of what we learned was on our own back then. Pause tape wasn’t really a cultural thing where you saw someone else doing it. It’s just that everyone had tape recorders back then and knew how to use them 👍
We made pause loops back in the day bro , or we would put a rubber band around the tone arm of the turntable and the stand and hope when the rubber band stretched you got an ILL skip loop
this is amazing for the culture and much respect to Sample Lounge for making this happen. Easy Mo has inspired me in many ways and he is still making heat.
13:42 thats how I feel too. I still love making beats with the SP-202 and SP-303 for myself. Excellent interview with Easy Mo Bee. This man is a Grand Master
I was into reggae and dub so used to do pause delay in the early 80's. play a sound pause it, turn down the recording volume a notch, repeat as many times as you want the sound to delay. Great interview Flava and Get down changed the game.
My father told me the same stories about his beginnings as a pause tape producing. We live in Flint, Mi and the information to do these things weren't shared from New York to Flint at that time. So it was literally like minds think alike. Using the tools at their disposal. That's the essence of Hip Hop!!!
Watching from Kenya. I enjoyed and still enjoy the sounds of Easy Mo Bee and all the other "boom bap" producers from his time (Pete Rock, Premier, Large Prof, Dilla, Shaheed & Q-Tip, Ski Beatz, Beatminerz etc, also others that came a bit later e.g Hi-Tek)
That's crazy I use to do this on the West Coast L.A. as a kid before knowing anything about sampling and/or programming or how beats were made. This is cool to find out that Easy Mo Bee did this back in the day! ✊🏽✊🏿🤜🏿🤛🏽
I remember doing a pause mix tape song for Vanity 6 n Drive me wild in like 82-83 I think I still have the tape. I had a double cassette recorder n turntable. Funtimes in my bedroom creating!
Heya, salute to Easy Mo Bee, what a Legend! You're good at letting your guest talk during the conversation, keep doin your thing! Good luck in all your endeavors.
#Salute....👑✨👑 Man I used to do pause tapes & I used to scratch on a deck with the 1 turntable & unpause the pre-recorded section on the tape function while hanging my speakers out the window for the neighborhood...
I remember seeing a Harmon Kardon dual cassette player years ago at Circuit City! I picked up an Onkyo unit several years ago put some old, experimental beats on WAV files. I never made a pause tape but my 1st beat tape was made using an Emerson Boombox, Casio SK1 and Boss DR-220E. Nothing beats the sound and process of manually creating beats!
Back in St. Albans Queens in 87-88 my older Sister taught me how to make pause tapes. It was something about that time and community that bread hip hop. We use to remix Special Ed's i got it made. Those early memories with our boomboxes actually shaped my carteer as a speaker designer.
Ahh Yes, I remember making "Pause Button" tapes in the 7th Grade but I used a deck with the Piano Key type trans port, It was more accurate on the Start and Stop because it was'nt using a motor to move the play head up and down (like the Newer decks/High end), it worked with a spring in conjunction with the button. Thanks for the Memory of them Golden Days.
My best friend and I made pause tapes back in 1985. However we used a double cassette deck. instead of turntables. We did it for fun. We’d actually have pause tape beat battles against each other. We couldn’t been no more than 14 years old at the time. There was no name to what we were doing. Like I stated we did it for fun. Well that year… we both got drum machines for Christmas. I got a Korg DDM 110 super drums unit & he got the synsonic drums by Mattel which had 4 drums pads. We made several rap tapes with those units. Man you couldn’t tell us nothing. I miss my friend. He died of cancer 2014. A few months before he died… he played those rap tapes we made for his wife and kids, while I was on the phone. I couldn’t believe he still had those tapes after all those decades.
The Latin Rascals are the king of razor blade edits🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾…..they made the best NYC radio mixes & made 12inch singles of the 80’s so much more exciting…….I also did Pause Button mixing in 1983 & I broke so many PAUSE BUTTONS on cassette decks in those days😂😂😂😂
I used to do that same message with my tape deck before I had a set of turntables and I first started spinning and mixing with two different record players controlling the volume that's how I got my DJ on back in the past #BIGFAX
I used to pause mix tapes back in the 80s. I'd compete with my friends and win every time. You had to be good and very precise so people wouldn't notice. Key was to cut on the hi-hat instead of the kick and it would then sound professional!
Word. For the love of hip hop (really music generally). I recorded my pause mix tapes straight off of FM radio; KISS and BLS, and esp. WHBI with DJs Special K and Teddy Ted in the wee hours (2am-4am) 👀
Eventually the loop would lose low end fidelity so me and the homies started looping those Bass tapes so our loops would bang from the house speakers in the whip. 😂
I used to do pause mixes, I preferred the piano key tape decks, the touch button cassette decks sometimes had a sight delay before the pause would kick in. Used to do a pause mix & take the cassette to school the next day. My Turntables are set up with 2 CDJ 900s & a DJM 2000, I have a DDJ SX2 which is in its box under my sons bed. I grew up with Technics 1200s & that’s my tools of choice.
And lawd forbid that delay is at the end bcz it wasn't getting recut lol. Me and the homies would still spit over it... Just had to remember where the delay was
Pause mix tape ain't no joke ! As it can due to the delay make it go a fraction of a second ...off beat & the attack on the opening sound is like old 4 track mixing ...Harsh .I did many 60s psyche punk garage rock , psychedelic, rock n roll , prog , northern soul , they come out really abstract & hardcore . Plus, it's not just about the break you get soundsscapes , intros end notes , and rolls. Now, I'll have to get a high-end controller to replicate the dopeness . It's like I've invented a nu style . Great discussion 👍
mane dem pauz tapes was tha sh!t…B4 me n my niggaz had actual equipment to make sum orijinal bump, eye uze’ta make beats samplin’ wit tha pauz tapes…eye got damn good widdit too ✌🏿
The limitation aren't there anymore so it seems new beat makers/producers rely on the technology to do most of the work for them which makes them less creative
Nore brings on joseline, 21, schmurda and calls them legends...Moe done worked with Craig Mac, BIG, Pac , and Miles Davis..Though no Drink Champs interview, they're not right over there.
Man I feel like a dinosaur I came from two technique 1200s records to Serato Serato is unbelievable now I have a Akai MPC X, monitors, ,mini atom from Presonus and I basically don’t know don’t what to do with it back in the day everybody was a DJ so we all bounce ideas of each other. I’m from Brooklyn now ain’t nobody into what I’m into. I watch videos on RU-vid about the machine bought the MPC Bible. This is a slow process.
