quoted 5 lines MAKER OF ALL CAPS wrote:
>MAKER OF ALL CAPS wrote:
> i meet someone last week that works in some capacity at trent reznor's nothing
> studios in new orleans. she told me that mr. reznor give her a load of vinyl
> records and a lesson in _recycle_. her job? to find decent drum loops and funk
> samples, edit them, and catalog them.quoted 4 lines aaron@defiant.on-it.net (Aaron Michelson) responded:
>aaron@defiant.on-it.net (Aaron Michelson) responded:
>Ah, it's nice when you're rich....
>BTW: reznor did the same thing on the last album (the downward spiral)
>except he had a catalogue of 3000 samples from horror films...
Well, true. I'm also sure that many of the IDM listers( not necessarily
you two) who are also musicians
and/or dj's are just green with envy that these people *have* acess to such
tools/facilities/hired employee
sample slaves. I also personally know of at least two musician/ d.j types
who have quite a bit of dough
who *HIRE*people to shop for records for them, old LPs, break and sample
LPs, etc.
As far as *paying* someone to do this work, well...this is one of the
luxuries of wealth, I 'spose.
I can't say that I would feel too guilty doing this if I have the money
that he ( Trent ) did. I would probably
feel a bit *superficial*, but not guilty. Superficial because I feel that
whatever music I do should be
from me, or * at least * resultant of the work from someone in my band.
Also, consider someone handing
you a pile of random LPs and having you pick out the decent drum loops and
funk samples.
Will that person have the knowledge, experience, foresight and facility to
figure out which samples
are common and which ones are the sample gems of tomorrow? Whose to know
until its sampled and released?
"Hey, check it out!, I found this killer break by this guy named...James
Brown!, its full of horns and drum breaks
and everything! We're gonna have a HIT with this one!"
Lets also consider some groups whose labels are owned by much larger mother
labels. Even some IDM adored groups
( no I won't name names...) have parent labels who open their catalogs of
recordings ( and thus samples)
to the artists, labels that live under them. While this seems shitty to
the jealous, it sure sounds fun for the artist.
But then again, how much fun is it to legally and simply plunder an open
catalog?
It seems that the most unusual sample sources come from less obvious
sources. On that note, while this is less
IDM, whats the deal with Mr. Scruffy, while on the obscure sample theme?
And on that tip:
LAND OF THE LOOPS! on Up, check it out...
np: The Clash: Sandinista ( one sample here that I know of )
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