Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Amen Break
I think this is really interesting. The history of a 6 second drum sample originally recorded in 1969 that helped shape music over the course of the past 2 decades.
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14 comments:
deadly stuff.
DJ shadow built an entire career out of those six seconds...
excellent stuff indeed
pretentious commentary ruins it! Even used to sell jeans...
still interesting
took me a minute to suss out if it was a person talking or a synth voice to be honest
Saw a documentary (called 'LA plays itself' I think) about all the LA locations used in 1000s of films over the years. Excellent doc but the voiceover is suspiciously like this dude. He's ridiculous. but not as ridiculous as that Svenlonius guy who interviewed Kevin shields a while ago.
is that the fella who made the documentary about Loveless? I heard something abouthat a year ago.
He talks about a 6 sample drum beat with a levity better suited to Holocaust documentaries
sorry 6 second drum break...bugh, my head is fried tonight
Super interesting but that fucking disjointed narrative really makes it hard to listen to. Why does the dude keeps pausing in grammatically inappropriate points in his narrative? Is he on some sort of Christopher Reeve style artificial lung machine?
That was pretty interesting. Didn't place it to Straight Outta Compton the first time round.
Also, having copyright on samples no matter how long or recognisable is ridiculous. Apart from being unenforcible (if an artist doesn't tell their record company that they got their snare samples off a torrent called "Crunk Drum Hits", how is the record company going to know), it's stupid in that it modularises every part of sampled music.
Samples are like words. If it's really obvious that you've taken the hook from another song and used it for your own, then you pay for it. But if you're just using the building blocks of previously existing tracks to build your own, then it's just like using the same language to say different things.
This could be the longest comment I've ever left on Blogger.
But if you're just using the building blocks of previously existing tracks to build your own, then it's just like using the same language to say different things.
I saw an interview with Norman Cook a few years ago and he said that there's been occasion when people who he's sampled and not gotten clearance from have come up to him and said that they like his stuff but who don't realise that he's used their music.
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