I heard the track a few times on dutch radio and all these guys did
is sampled one little stab from UR's 'Sonic Destroyer' and played a
completely different tune with it on top of a lame trance track.
Sounds like that come standard on every cheap dance gear and the
producers of this track did not try to cash in on the success of UR's
'Sonic Destroyer'. Some of you guys really need a break, tracks get
sampled everyday.
At 11:33 -0700 17-08-2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What's particularly amazing about this
(now the second time UR seems to be
involved in sampling/covering issues with
a major label) is the majors managed to find
probably the techno producers most opposed
to such practices....
I haven't heard the track in question, so I don't know how much it
borrows from 'Sonic Destroyer'. But I have to say that I'd feel uncomfortable
if they got sued for just using the intro stabs. Electronic music has always
been intensely self-consuming and self-referential. In other words,
producers have always nicked little synth and drum sounds from other tracks.
If you're recognizably ripping off someone else's track, that's bad.
If you're using a little synth sound, I think that's part of the music.
There's a grey area here - I think all the jungle tracks that used Kevin
Saunderson's 'Reese' bassline are fine. They took a little sample and flipped
it. On the other hand, I think that Dave Clarke's Kevin Saunderson samples
on Red 3 were pretty cheeky. There was a lot of controversy over that. And
the whole Jaguar thing is obviously over the line.
Joe
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