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I didn't realise how much has been nicked from elsewhere but it doesn't really bother me or affect my enjoyment of the music.
They seem to have a knack of using minor changes to make huge differences. The Franz Ferdinand remix was essentially them allowing an irritating buzzing noise to increase in volume throughout the track and to my ears transformed the song.
Dr Dre rapped over old funk tunes and Daft Punk added minted noises to old funk songs, both also brought funking awesome production. I don't see a huge difference between the two.
I do get annoyed when Fatboy Slim shits all over perfectly good songs - Praise 'Yo Self in particular - but Daft Punk tend to improve the situation in my head. I guess it does blur the line between a remix and a new song, I couldn't really care as long as all concerned get credit and/or money.
I've just got my vinyl copy of Homework out and looking over it there is no sign of any samples mentioned, which seems odd. I have no idea how these things work, do they perhaps pay a little extra to the original artist if they don't get a credit? The needle on my deck is broken so I can't check now but are any of the artists sampled on Homework mentioned in Teachers, does this make any diffence?
The other thing it brings to mind is DJ sets. If Green Velvet is playing live or playing a set of other peoples music it still sounds like Green Velvet i'm listening to, in a set he chucks together bits of other techno music and makes it sound like Green Velvet and even occasionly adds some Green Velvet noises to reinforce, I think. The fact that he can make other artists music, albeit very similar music, emanate his stamp, which is worth listening to, is worth listening to.
Another example of, I'm not quite sure what, would be Giles Peterson. He creates compilations of music from here, there and everywhere. Within a few songs at most you know it's him you are listening to. I'm not a huge fan but it is has always confused me that I can spot a Giles Peterson compilation song a mile off, often with little or no context.
Cheers for the links Hector. It may not change my opinion of Daft Punk but it will help greatly in finding out about older bands I need to hear more of.
There is a possibilty I'm talking mince and simply drunkenly defending Daft Punk. I saw them at Rockness 2 weeks ago and they played the best live show I've ever seen taking the crown from Bowie at Glastonbury, not the '71 performance.
To summarise - The sampling/remixing doesn't bother me, the lack of credits for samples has either slightly pissed me off or confused me. |
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