interesting trend away from the radical late 80's forward thinking 'machine
music' production/cultural ethic whereby sampling was seen as a radical
step forward and the rise of digital was seen as an empowering force
Nowadays, there is a whole host of backlash against such methods with the
'only real instruments can make real music' (or, analog is better becauase
it's more authentic somehow) type attitude creeping back into supposedly
'radical' forms, e.g. dance music (well, ok, some sectors of 'dance'
hey really good subject you raise!
honestly i think it's mostly just an ideal for producers who are _really_
inspired and in love with old disco, soul, r'n'b etc. i don't know d wang
but i don't think he could be an out-and-out sample hater, especially given
the early balihu's. it's really fun and tempting to cut up amazing old disco
records and make something "new" with them, but at the same time you kick
yourself because you really wanna be able to come up with those amazing
sounds yourself, but with your own personality, not just rely on someone
else's ideas even if you can re-arrange them etc..it's about freedom and
progression as a musician/artist really, not so much about what sounds
better altho in my book if you make it from scratch it will always have more
character and life than something that is sampled.. music stagnates or goes
in circles if all it can do is sample old records, even if it finds many
ways to rework those ideas in new ways, it's still a form of regurgitation.
house that is picking up on old disco etc sounds at least.
some people really "play" samples as an instrument (rather than just lazily
build tracks around them and run them thru some filters), like kdj, and well
i guess dj shadow if you say so :P i don't think those producers who strive
to do it all from scratch are really denouncing sampling, there's lots of
dope music using samples, they just are striving towards an ideal of very
personal, open-ended, non-pre-packaged music. i appreciate both approaches,
but in the end i too have to admit i think music that is created from
scratch is more valuable because it is more personal and arguably takes a
little more imagination. or at least a certain form of imagination. i guess
some people have a really broad imagination of how to cut up samples and
shit, but it's just not the same....instrumental music just ahs more
potential to introduce something "new" in my opinion, i know some would
argue, but i think digital manipulation and all that has some pretty finite
limits.
i dunno it's definitely idealistic but i think it's a good thing, . there's
room for all sorts of music.
jt
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