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Sorry for those that know ( I'm behind on the "in the know" curve...) but
Monolake's Mutek show is up and its phenomenal.
http://www.monolake.de/index.html
Andrew Duke mentioned Snap...a guilty pleasure.
If -anyone- has the "Power" 12" with the -Latin- version on it, check it
out. I haven't seen this in many years. Its a killer. Its a B side on -some-
copy of "The Power". dope...Anyone with a copy of this that'd like to dupe
me a copy, get me offlist. I can work a tasty trade if you like.
On the Schooly D front. I agree with Andrew and Derek on the
demerits of looping and sampling others work. Its pretty criminal whats been
done in mainstream Hip Hop. THAT BEING SAID....
Keep in mind that the looping and sampling of Schooly D and Mantronix ( or
whomever ) is not the looping of said musicians, its the looping and
sampling of the musicians that -they- are stealing material from. "Saturday
Night" ( glad to see it finally got a mention here in the Hip Hop thread
we've had...finally) is largely comprised of Parliament/Funkadelic/Clinton
and James Brown/ JBs loops. There's other stuff in there too. Awesome LP.
So your'e not really copying Schooly D, your'e copying who they're
copying...Its like when Public Enemy, during "Nation of Millions" tried to
claim they "owned" loops that were not even theirs to begin with.
and many cans of worms are now opening, sorry
Peter
np:
http://www.monolake.de/index.html
From: andrewduke@canada.com
Schooly D is another originator whose beats are
mercilessly sampled without credit, especially his
"Saturday Night". You could play two bars from
"Saturday Night" for the average person and--even if
they had never heard of Schooly D--they would likely
say, "hey, I've heard that beat before".
If you take bits from songs and chop 'em up and come up
with something that is new and not recognizable, that's
one thing, but taking a couple of bars from Mantronix
or Schooly D and looping them for the duration of the
song such that it is blatantly obvious that you're just
looping a bar or two from Mantronix or Schooly D all
the way through your damn song--urgh, time for me to
try to calm down. Andrew
From: EggyToast <eggy@eggtastic.com>
Subject: Re: [idm] re: Mantronix/Schooly D
You mean, like how Puff Daddy et al made their/his entire career?
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