Experimental remixing and recombining of audio sources to form new compositions has been around long before the appearance of samplers and computer-based digital editing systems: Steve Reich was composing using tape loops as long ago as the 1960s; The musical genre of Dub Reggae popularized the notion of the mixing desk as an instrument where source tracks are heavily manipulated and effected to create new compositions. Esoteric Sensationalism creator C.P.Bryan has been composing audio collages since the 1980's.