"Nate Harrison [Toshok Laboratories]" wrote:
quoted 20 lines you wrote:> you wrote:
>
> It seems to be a first in one respect: How many artists sample their own
> music in any major way? You can hear the piano from 'On' in the
> background, and apparently the choral voicey bits are from another record.
> In fact, it's not very 'IDM' at all, really...
>
> I write:
>
> Well I don't know if this counts but Public Enemy were sampling themsleves
> back on Fear of a Black Planet...they sampled from their first
> record...actually I would say none of the sample fiends we all listen to
> today would be anywhere if it weren't for the groundbreaking ideas
> committed by PE and the Bomb Squad. All of the PE albums are ace, but
> check Fear of a Black Planet for some wicked sampling which was way ahead
> of its' time...
>
> peace
>
> Nate
yes....fear of...is the best album ever...anywhere...shame the bomb squad
dropped off after that....but making that lp must have taken it out of
them....as for artists sampling themselves, a lot of hip-hop artist have done
and continue to do so, particularly people like EPMD , Gangstarr (and other
Premier productions), Show & AG, Ultramags etc..in fact in hip-hop its par for
the course to sample (or even *scratch*) your old material to make something
new...