i somehow came across this looping delay pedal that would hold a 2 second sample. this pedal coupled with the ghetto blaster experiments really changed my life.funk then got an amiga 500 computer, where he initially produced music through a music tracker, octamed. he formed the name 'venetian snares' after '...writing a track with really fast snare rolls that sounded like scraping a stick across a grate or running a pencil down venetian blinds in a distracted classroom'.