eggy@eggtastic.com commented:
quoted 9 lines FLA is funny because a friend of mine demoed a CD that he said was a>FLA is funny because a friend of mine demoed a CD that he said was a
>pretty good representation, and over the course of a few tracks I
>recognized parts lifted wholly from aphex twin and autechre tracks. I
>brought it up and said "that's kind of cheap, don't you think?"
>
>He responded that "no, it's what they do, it's great!"
>
>Of course, if you're familiar with what they're lifting, it's *really
>boring*, *really fast*. I'd rather go listen to the original tracks.
i do generally agree. when they did 'millennium' in 1994, they sampled rock riffs
from pantera and metallica. for their sins, the album was tied up in smaple
clearance for a year. and the music was just as boring as you'd think.
but actually, they don't *always* do that. they did actually take a really cool
nitzer ebb bassline and turned it into an even better song. plus on their 2001
album i recognized a string bit from the movie "event horizon", and an old
delerium track (when they were good, before they became the new
enigma/deep forest) looped peter gabriel's "the rhythm of the heat". but in all of
those cases, the samples were used as jumping-off points toward something
else, which i think is perfectly valid. as long as the result turns out well and
doesn't just make you want to hear the original.
d.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org