good grief, charlie brown...
for *anyone* to claim that they have *any* ownership or authoring rights or
clearance for one of the oldest and most known breaks of all time is utterly
and completely fucking ridiculous! With all respects to said groups, how can
anyone possibly lay claim to *that*break?
I remember ( pardon my paraphrase of an old tale, here ) in the late
eighties or perhaps early nineties,
the hip hop group Wrecks N- Effect did a tune called "Rump Shaker" wherein
they
bit a sax riff from (someone...Coltrane? ). It was the same sample that
Public Enemy
used *years* before on " It takes a Nation of Millions", forgetting the tune.
Anyways, PE ( what were they thinking? ) attempted to sue Wrecks over the sample
claiming that "it was theirs". Hmmmmm. As I remember, the case went nowhere.
So here in 1997, two British electronica outfits try to battle ownership
over the IBB break?
Get a life.
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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 13:26:17 -0700
From: "Gonzi (Fresh)" <fresh@linkonline.net>
Subject: (idm) Sue the Bastards!!
From the NME:
quoted 20 lines THE PRODIGY are in a
> THE PRODIGY are in a
> wrangle with THE JEDI
> KNIGHTS over the track
> 'Climbatize' on their new album,
> 'The Fat Of The Land'. The
> Knights say that the track
> features a sample from their track 'Air Drums From
>Outer
> Bongolia' which The Prodigy failed to get
>permission to use.
> 'Air Drums From Outer Bongolia' was built around a
>sample
> from a track by The Incredible Bongo Band which
>has been
> used on numerous jungle tracks. However, The Jedi
>Knights
> claim that The Prodigy's sample is from their song
>and not the
> original.
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