From Bill VanLoo Sent Mon, Dec 21st 1998, 22:53
From Bill VanLoo Sent Mon, Dec 21st 1998, 22:53
> I'm relatively new to the dj mixing process. It's a strange and wonderful thing. Check out Ed Luna's excellent article about this very subject at: http://ele-mental.coil.com/who/eluna/writings/garnier.thoughts.txt > I've been taking notice of the DJ Kicks albums. > The dj's mix other existing songs of a variety of artists together > with a flow in mind. The works are often listed with their origin. The > "hooks" and lyrics remain from the source song. So, do the source > artists get paid for being used in a mix? Yup, they get paid, at least if the mix CD is put together by a legitimate label. If you're talking about street-level mixtapes, well, probably not. That's another debate, though. > Second, why not just buy the source artist's work? > > (maybe my answer is, "You do. If you like it.") That would be my answer, to. Bill / dj marathon -- Sigma6 Interactive Media / http://www.sigma6.com dj marathon: "fibre" up now @ http://www.flatplastic.com/