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From:
Che
To:
Intelligent Dumb Music
Date:
Wed, 25 Dec 1996 21:46:54 +0000 ()
Subject:
Re: (idm) Re: Speedy J ripped off Orbit?
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At 04:05 PM 12/16/96 GMT, Sean McCarrick wrote:
quoted 4 lines Speedy J ripping off Orbit.1stly,if you listened to any other Speedy J tunes,> >Speedy J ripping off Orbit.1stly,if you listened to any other Speedy J tunes, >you would know the bassline you mentioned is one of his trademarks. >Speedy J has releases on Warp,plus8,Harthouse and Nutrition,he also has
his >own label Beam me up,which is excellent and he can DJ. Thats just great, but the fact is his "trademark" bassline was used by William Orbit 2 years earlier. Why don't you go out and dig up a copy of the Radioactive Remix - you'll be shocked at how much it sounds like a Speedy J track - before there was a Speedy J.
quoted 2 lines Who the hell is William Orbit,last thing I heard he was playing a guitar and>Who the hell is William Orbit,last thing I heard he was playing a guitar and >had singers in his live act.
Given Speedy J's obvious debt to Orbit, he's someone whose music you'd probably like. Check out Strange Cargo III, Strange Cargo - Hinterland, or the latest Torch Song (1996). Chill Che