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From:
Farm A Cist
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Anika Agebjoern
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Date:
Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:18:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) The whole AFX bootleg issue...
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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Anika Agebjoern wrote:
quoted 8 lines me as very reasonable, but a bit different than the laws that are used for> >me as very reasonable, but a bit different than the laws that are used for > >music these days (unfortunately) > > > >perhaps im a bit off base here- any one care to correct/flame me... > > You are right! Take sampling, where you use old sounds, or photography, > where you basically copy the reality. I would say both these forms of art > have creative input so why wouldn't mixtapes?
Heck, AFX sampled plenty of beats/breaks/sounds, wouldn't he be satisfied with the high level of sales he already has had? That is, wouldn't he be a bit hypocritical in squandering his time over these few trainspotters' bootlegging, etc? How much money is potentially lost there anyway vs. what he/REPHLEX-label might make hourly from his creative work? All I know is; I am selling tapes of my non-sampled, synth programmed stuff next to local DJ tapes, and while their mediocre mixes are priced at $12-15 a tape, my original songs are selling for less! This feels very wrong to me. Sure there is an art to mixing, but, $15?!?!? A CD of local ambient-techno programmers sells for less than that and goes to the people who actually generated the sounds!! David Chandler - chandler@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us (503)301-3011 grep -i casio goodwillbins >> mystudio ; grep -i atari goodwillbins >> mystudio ;