Im with you on that...
xh
--- Anig Browl <anig_browl@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 55 lines From: The soul that creates <themourn@yahoo.com>
> From: The soul that creates <themourn@yahoo.com>
>
> > How do you people personally feel about an artist
> > sampling another artist for use in a song...not
> for
> > any kind of cover, just stuff like ripping a sound
> > break or a beat and making into a whole new
> song???
> > Would this lessen the repect you have for the
> artist
> > or the song??
>
> I don't really like it. It can of course be very
> creative and there are a
> whole bunch of songs/tracks I've heard where this is
> used very effectively
> as a creative device, eg Old Blues Loop Over
> Breakbeat with Sensitive New
> Lyrics. And I like a lot of tracks where some
> identifiable sample is used as
> a stab/accent - like my treasured copy of Utah
> Saints' 'Something Good'. But
> a lot of the time it's just tired and says to me
> that the sampling artist
> just did a quick jam/rap/pro tools session over
> somebody else's proven hit.
>
> I particularly don't like it in electronic music,
> because if I hear the
> sample-based track I might think it was really cool,
> be interested in how
> the artist makes those interesting sounds, etc. etc.
> I'm always hugely
> disappointed if I later find that they came from
> another track/a sample CD.
> OK I am more of a sound designer than a muso, but
> I'd be totally embarrassed
> to use someone else's sounds.
>
> I guess I'm saying that samples can make a great
> garnish on a track, but
> artists should provide their own main course. The
> alternative is 'McDonalds
> music' - proven formula, tastes OK, but after a
> while you just consume it
> out of habit. Besides the direct sampling, I'm
> hearing more and more chart
> music which is just barely-legal ripping off of
> older tunes...oh well, you
> can't legislate good taste. Welcome to capitalism.
>
> Anig Browl
>
>
>
_________________________________________________________
quoted 6 lines Do You Yahoo!?
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.com address at
> http://mail.yahoo.com
>
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
quoted 5 lines To unsubscribe, e-mail:
> To unsubscribe, e-mail:
> idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
> For additional commands, e-mail:
> idm-help@hyperreal.org
>
=====
Kounterakt in constant evolution.
http://www.kounterakt.cjb.net ("Industrial",Rock, Experimental, I.D.M., DnB hybrid craziness)Circle Of Anxiety
http://www.cofanx.cjb.net (should appeal to fans of all sorts of I.D.M.)
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger
http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org