Sampling the Web What Hip Hop and View Source Have in Common

Before Spotify and npm, two creative scenes figured out the same trick independently: take what exists, flip it, make something new. In the 80s, hip hop producers were chopping breaks and layering drum machines into entirely new art forms. A decade later, a generation of web developers was hitting Cmd+U and learning by stealing. This talk uses the Web Audio API to recreate the Amen Break, the most sampled drum loop in history, live in the browser