Wall of Sound

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No one had ever produced records like Phil Spector. There had been lavish orchestrations and raucous sounds, but until the early 1960s, the elements were clearly defined in recordings, with a fair amount of separation allotted to a limited number of rhythm and percussion instruments within the confines of a mainly monaural medium. Spector changed all that. Applying copious amounts of live and tape-delayed echo to layers of percussion, strings, brass, ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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