On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 Geotrax1@aol.com wrote:
quoted 24 lines In a message dated 20-10-96 19:29:20, you write:
> In a message dated 20-10-96 19:29:20, you write:
>
> > > "I hate trip-hop! I don't even know what trip-hop means - if it's The
> > > Dust Brothers then eat my shit, because they're the worst cunts ever.
> > > They just do samples, really, which I never do. But I like some of the
> > > Mo'Wax stuff, some of that's quite deep."
>
> > > -Luke Vibert
>
> > Now this really takes it...I have plenty of respect for Luke Vibert.
> > However...him saying that the Dust Bros., who are as fucking innovative as
> > anyone, are shitty because of using "just samples"...reeks. I'll just
> > remind all involved of mr. vibert's quote from raygun
>
> I think the emphasis here is on 'just' doing samples - Vibert bases most of
> his music on samples, yes - but that is just the starting point, he takes the
> music to a higher level with his startling, original instrumentation. I'm no
> fan of the Chemical Brothers I admit, but their records seem mostly to be
> glorified 'megamixes', of quickly stolen passages from other people's
> records. It's just a huge ripoff of the late 80's Beastie Boys sound,
> produced by, guess who, the Dust Brothers (the original name the Chemical
> Brothers had until they were sued by said production team). Except of
> course, the original Dust Brothers did it properly, with style and funk,
> instead of this compressed wall-of-noise subtlety-free barrage of beats.