From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf@interactivelink.nl)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 10:45:53 CET
what about the Jazz-standards/evergreens that are used over and over to
create new music with? isn't that kind of the same thing, except that it was
played by "real musicians" instead of samplers?
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
To: <Flizoyd@aol.com>
Cc: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [acid-jazz] Mariahs New Cd
> At 09:43 AM 12/2/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >dear list: I hate the first single but I heard the rest of the cd on
> >Aol and its actually good. There are a coupleof songs based on much loved
> >hip hop loops such as "Nuttin but a G thing" and Cubes "y'know how we do
> >it" . But theyre good songs too. all in all as not bad as the first
> >single would lead you to think.
>
>
> You know, I'm not going to chide you for mentioning Pariah Scary on this
> list, and neither am I gonna go on the typical cliche "pop music sucks,
> it's for the lowly masses, it should be banned, etc, et al" rant on this
> list, but for goodness sakes, NO ONE, neither underground nor mainstream
> should be applauded for re-re-re-re-sampling any tune. I mean, if you got
a
> hip-hop tune and you sample some older tune the FIRST TIME, fine, it may
be
> cool, it may suck, but fine. But it just gets on my last nerve when people
> keep rehashing that @#$%& sample over and over again. "Nouthin But a G
> Thang" is a sample of Leon Hayward's, "I Wanna Do Something Freaky To
You."
> IT'S BEEN DONE, MOVE ON PEOPLE! SAMPLE SOMETHING ELSE! And that means you,
> J-Lo and Ashanti, too!
>
> I guess every song in the western hemisphere has been sampled. That's why
> hip-hop producers are sampling all these Bollywood tunes from India now...
>
> Elson
>
>
>
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