I'd be more upset about Josh Wink ripping French Kiss than about some lame trance act snaking a couple of synth stabs. todd
Klaas-Jan Jongsma wrote: > 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 > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Klaas-Jan Jongsma > --- > http://technotourist.org > http://lowlands.hyperreal.org > http://home.planet.nl/~kjongsma > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
