16 Aug
2006
16 Aug
'06
7:32 p.m.
Do you guys know about John Oswald and his Plunderphonic album:
http://plunderphonics.com/
Read the story on the website. The album (which is great, IMO) has been
made (back in 1989) exclusively and completely with samples from famous
musicians (Beatles, Michael Jackson, Metallica) recordings.
It's available for download from the link above. It's ok (I mean legal)
because it's no-profit.
c.
Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:
Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:
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By the way, would you please mail me the sample
of the clap-snare?
It's so
nice:)
Here you go, a few bars of the drumtrack with the clap solo:
http://ringheimsauto.friwebteknologi.org/ting/klapp_kanskjeno01.wav
I see there's been a debate on this recently, but have to mention:
The clap+snare I sent you is made of one Rick James clap (the guy who
made "Superfreak"), and a snare from some obscure german 7" with a guy
called Alec something. In fact, most of the track I posted is made of
samples from records. Sometimes just a bassdrum or clap, sometimes
long takes lasting for 30 sec+.
My reasoning is this:
I heard (from a friend) that the guy who made "The grey album", wich
was the acapella from Jay-Z's "Black" album mixed with The Beatles'
"White" album, got sued by The Beatles' company. The Beatles lost,
because Danger Mouse who made "The grey album" didn't earn any money
from it.
Now, I don't know if this story is true (....?), and couldn't find it
mentioned on the wikipedia article
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album) as I was flying by, but I guess
if I GOT sued, and I hadn't earned any money from it, they wouldn't
have by far as good a case as if it was released as an ordinary album
with many copies sold. I will investigate this further, but right now
my eye is hurt and reading is a bit of a struggle...
My solution (compromise) is using the CC by-nc-sa on works of mine
that contain uncleared samples. If I got sued at least I hadn't used
it commercially to earn money or allowed others to do so. This is a
compromise, and having just heard the story about Danger Mouse through
the grapevine, I've figured that for me personally I'm willing to take
the chance.
If you're willing to do that also go ahead and use the Rick James
clap. ....Hell, it's just a clap... (Could be fair use, btw, but I
dunno...)