Marley Marl

CTL-E-1076 · Institution · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Hip-hop producer who invented the pre-digital trigger/curation working method (808 trigger pulse, striped-reel drum library). NOT the inventor of the sampler. (Case study: drum machines/synthesizers → electronic music.)

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-072; source research type(s): None. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review. Sources populated 2026-10-03 from package provenance during the KG completion pass; external sourcing still pending.

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CultureTechLens research package CTL-DR-TECH-001 — entity record TECH-E-072 (research/CTL-DR-TECH-001/entities.json)

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