sampling & evolution
ghurd@mcgraw-hill.com
Mon, 10 Feb 97 11:41:08 edt
Brian sez:
Personally, I don't mind sampling. It is just that if we accept
sampling to be a contemporary parallel to the revolution of be-bop, we
are selling ourselves short. Be-bop was such a departure from its
roots. It was truly revolutionary. I don't think that anything in music
since then has been so explosive. It isn't something that we can control
but I think that it helps to be aware of where we are going and where we
came from.
I think a move toward simplicity in music is just as
revolutionary/evolutionary as bebop's complexity. Personally one of
the things that draws me toward sampling-based music is its
refinement, simplicity, and repetition. It takes the best and
sometimes worst from another work and presents it to us in a
crystallized fashion. I don't think I need to remind anybody of how
complex our day-to-day lives seem. The refined beats and samples of
artists like those that we talk about on this list are pretty
refreshing when everything's said and done.
my 2 pesos,
Gordon