 Grandmaster Flash's turntablism is an early example in hip hop.The use of pre-recorded, digitally-sampled loops in popular music dates back to Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (), who released one of the first albums to feature mostly samples and loops, 1981's "Technodelic" ().Their approach to sampling was a precursor to the contemporary approach of constructing music by cutting fragments of sounds and looping them using computer technology ().