From BigKumquat Sent Fri, Aug 13th 1999, 04:14
From BigKumquat Sent Fri, Aug 13th 1999, 04:14
david writes: << just to clear up some misunderstanding i feel this conversation has fell into (not that i would know, i didn't start it), i think what tom meant by his 'no samplers' rule was that you wouldn't just sample the original song & do something new with it, but that instead you would have to reconstruct it using other means. >> Yes, it's true, and this misunderstanding is all my fault. I was infusing my fist-pounding upon Tom's ideology with references to a good sampling debate that we had on this list several months ago (yes, this goes out to you, IDM-list history buffs, and by "history" I mean stuff that happened more than one week ago). I actually like Tom's idea, in that it challenges the dominant paradigm in remixing. And I have heard some remixes where you think "Why bother?" - because the remixer did little more than sample extensive passages of the original and pass it off as "new product for sale." Of course, on the other side of the coin are the remixes where you wonder how the remix bears any resemblance whatsoever to the original track....the two are as different as a can of paint and an apple. - Fred