Hiphop was very influential to Eton Crop—not so much vocally (no Blom-raps :-) ), but definitely musically. While hiphop began with two turntables and an MC, the arrival of affordable samplers opened up new possibilities. Hiphop taught us that the world can be your instrument. You could use bits and pieces from other records, rearrange, pitch, and modify beats and musical themes, then add your own ideas and flavor. Take someone else’s riffs, but make them yours. That’s exactly what we did from the Get Real! album onwards. Sampling changed both our world and our music.
It all started with the early hiphop originators, like Boogie Down Productions.
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