Re: (idm) Blame & Taxing

From multsanta
Sent Fri, Nov 14th 1997, 02:54

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:43:14 +0000 Anthony Ewers
<xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx> writes:
>Has anyone heard that (rip-off) jazzy track by Blame (on Good Looking)
>which *totally* plagiarizes a whole virtually song by Nobukazu 
>Takemura called !? 'let my fish loose'; it's on the 'Childs View' album.
I read 
>a review recently where Blame was oh-so dilligently explaining how he 
>spent ages creating an authentic jazz groove (oh no he didn't), leaves
me
>wondering whether he/Good Looking got sample clearance for that.

I haven't heard the blame track in question, but i have heard the afx
remix of let my fish loose and the first time i heard it, the first thing
that popped into my head was 'good god why don't one of those drum n'
bassers sample this' it was just so obvious, the jazzy little bass line,
all out and ready to be ripped.  I'm actually surprised that richard
didn't do more with this.  I was expecting it to break out into one of
those totally fucked up funglist outings (like his excellent mix of
Phillip Boa), but it ends up just dull and outright boring; just the
bassline looped with childrens voices and such (if my memory serves me, i
can't find the tape).  Either way, whatever blame did to that track can't
challenge the horrible sin notorious b.i.g/puff daddy commited by ripping
that riff from herb alpert's rise and morphing it into one of those
faux-pop-mtvized-hiphop tracks (and they stole the vocal hook from snoop
doggy dogg!) erm...I don't want to get into a puffy sampling thread, so
here's some musical stuffs:

Review: 
Atom Heart: Apart (recent programmings/semaphore)

With a massivly prolific output, it's impossible to keep up with all of
Uwe Schmidt's (Atom Heart's) works,  I missed this one, but caught it on
a sale list a while back, so i grabbed it then.  A glance at the cover
seems a bit to similar to the [bland] graphics on the clear Metamatics
discs.  you know... little banner of tape across the spine, track listing
on back, some random seeming pic on the front.  A lovely photo of a volvo
(my kinda car! ;-) taxi on the front (same pic graces both of the
labels!)
Anyway, as for the music: the original songs are definetly up with some
of my favorite stuff i've heard from him.  Too bad two of the three
remixes can't really live up to the original.  I'm not sure when this
came out, but the two original trax (apart and apart2) sound like a more
upbeat, danceable version of the stuff on the mectics (schematics) 12". 
The Lisa Carbon remix take those deep bleepy sounds and morph them into
her (his?;-) trademark jazzy-ness.  Too bad the ian pooley mix on the
flip side is such shit. repeative 4/4 with the beeps from the original
tossed aimlessly on top.  And the Matthew Herbert mix, which i had such
high hopes for, starts off nice, more of the deep bloops, but all in all
the track ends up just being a boring rehash of the pooley mix.  Keep it
on the A side folks...

bye,
m*lt s*nt*