Aphex Twin's '73-yips' is sampled on a bloody razor commericial now airing.
:P
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From: Aronne Merrelli <a_merrelli@hotmail.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 1:13 AM
Subject: [idm] music in commercials & TV
quoted 38 lines I was disturbed a couple days ago to hear a song
>
> I was disturbed a couple days ago to hear a song
> from Christophe de Babylon's "If you're into, I'm out of it"
> during a TV commercial - one of the commercials in the ad
> campaign airing in the US called 'the truth'
> (if you haven't seen this, basically they are supposedly
> exposing 'the truth' about the tobacco industry and its evils.
> check www.thetruth.com/tvspot/html/index.html,
> its the 'danny' movie.)
>
> Also recently I heard one of tunes from Logical progression 1
> (I think it was Bukem's Demons Theme) in the background of that
> Earth 2000 show that was on one of the major networks.
>
> Since this is an increasing trend (use of underground
> electronic music, to make adverts seem more trendy, I suppose)
> I wonder if the artists / labels are getting ripped off here.
> Debatably this exposure is a good thing, because more people are
> hearing the music - but are they getting paid for this use?
> I guess I don't really have a point to make (well, maybe the
> point is that smaller independent labels need to watch their back
> more often... like the whole UR - Sony crap), but anyone else have
> comments? or notice other underground stuff on TV? etc?
>
>
> Regards,
> Aronne
>
>
>
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