VHS Head recursor

Was listening to some old Akufen and was reminded of VHS Head:

Reminds me of Meatbingo. I'm not sure exactly who he is though, some people said it's actually early stuff by VHS Head, but I don't think it is ... ?

https://soundcloud.com/meatbingo/bomb-the-80s

Anyway, imo VHS Head's stuff is far superior to the track from the OP, but it was released in 2002, so ...

The Akufen track sounds more like Discovery-era Daft Punk than VHS head to me.

Thinking about this I'd say Hexstatic would be a good precursor candidate for VHS Head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpMC2_SCY7w

And Emergency Broadcast Network (1995)..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhZ_UygGnN0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dh0iEkDEkU

But I'd guess there's lots of artists even before that that used the cut up movie/tv sample aesthetic. The KLF and the Orb come to mind at least

It's VHS Head lite. It's Betamax Head aka Discovery era Daft Punk vs Byron Stingily.

I like Akufen quite a bit, especially the "My Way" album, and his work as Marc LeClair is cool too. He does sound a bit like VHS Head; he's definitely at least a minor figure in the history of sampling, and possibly the biggest figure in microhouse.

Meatbingo = Phono Ghosts = Neil Scrivin

One of the more compelling 'precursors' I've heard is this Jackson and His Computer Band track:

  On 1/21/2014 at 6:59 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

Reminds me of Meatbingo. I'm not sure exactly who he is though, some people said it's actually early stuff by VHS Head, but I don't think it is ... ?

 

 

 

Anyway, imo VHS Head's stuff is far superior to the track from the OP, but it was released in 2002, so ...

That sure sounds like VHS Head! It shares some of the same samples that I've heard on TRoG as well! Really cool at any rate!