Crate Soul Brothers newsletter #84: Potato men
Newsflash 19.05.2002
Dear friends,
Another week has passed and poor Tibi (aka Keyser) stayed here alone again in Budapest as Shuriken returned to London again. Anyway, before that we had some more unforgettable moments together. First of all, we had some good old friends as guests on the third instalment of our monthly Crate Soul Pressure club-night at Rigoletto (www.rigoletto.hu): Eddy & Dus from Croatia. The two guys seemed to be more relaxed than a week before and we all immediately started to make offensive jokes that only our twisted Eastern European mind can accept.
The two potato heads later made brilliant sets for the lucky few (unfortunately the all-day-raining couldn't hold back the masses from visiting the plenty free open-air venues of Budapest) and we didn't stop dancing until the very end. Even the ol Unkle Tomstar appeared with Pia straight from Vienna, only to cheer up all the djs with this surprise. Thank you all!
Listening a tune from our latest radio show (Olli Ahvenlahti's Grandma's Rocking Chair from Finland, 1976; recently sampled by a very well-known hip hop and house producer) I had to ask myself: is there a limit from where sampling another artist's work is rather a theft than a rework? Listen to the original and the new version and decide! Anyway, here's a short reading on this very sensitive topic:
"... And I'll be damned if I hear another person say
That isn't music because they're not real instruments you play
Narrow minds will say this
But how many people can use a computer and play this
Call me a rapist
But we take you to levels (you never even knew) James-
Now some young people know you're name
Bring fame to the dead and make Curtis sound hard-core
Now who could ask for more?-
You want to change the law
and I deplore what you said about the way we made this
Sampled the drums but it don't sound like how he played it
Music always stems from other people
Listen to the radio-
The same old melodies played time and time you know
Rave comes from Electro
Electro comes from Disco
You can put it all into the same mix
Thrash beats, metal guitar from Jimi Hendrix and Punk
Hip Hop from the Funk
And some call it junk
You want to stop the chain of music, you'll fuck up the whole system
And every single musician will be a Victim..."
extract from Hip Hop band Braintax's debut EP single 'Chips On My Shoulder', (1992) cited by Peter Low in "Copyright Law and the Ethics of Sampling" (http://www.low-life.fsnet.co.uk/copyright/index.htm) Read the whole study!
Don't let stop the chain of music till next time!
Keyser (Crate Soul Brothers)
Playlist
Tilos Radio (http://tilos.hu)
Kristalykert (Crystal Garden - 23.30-02h 14. 05. 2002) - DJs: Keyser & Leengum
Listen (archived till the next show):
Lo-fi: http://tilos.hu/mp3/24/Tuesday/2330.m3u
Hi-fi: http://tilos.hu/mp3/96/Tuesday/2330.m3u
1. DJ Food - Tri-Plex Hourglas - Looking Glas (Ninja Tune)
2. Randy Weston - African Cookbook (Comet)
3. 4 Hero - Twelve Tribes (Talkin Loud)
4. Chris Bowden - Beautiful Nasty - 4 Hero mix (Ninja Tune)
5. Karin Krog - We Could Be Flying (Crippled Dick Hot Wax!)
6. Ez a divat - New Lies (?)
7. Fertile Ground - Take Me Higher (Counterpoint)
8. Herbie Hancock - Tony Williams (Transparent)
9. Gang do tagarela - Melo da tagarela (Rapper's Delight) (Strut)
10. The Blackbyrds - The Baby (Fantasy)
11. Angela Bofill - People Make The World Go Round (Arista)
12. The Big Bossa - It's All You (Viktor)
13. Anorganik feat. Sena - Endlessly (cdr)
14. Herbie Hancock - Wisdom (Transparent)
15. The Herbaliser - Mr. Holmes (Ninja Tune)
16. J-Live - Nights Like This (Coup d'État)
17. Innerzone Orchestra - People Make The World Go Round - Carl Craig mix (BBE)
18. Arkestra One - I Really Want You (Cosmic Sounds)
19. Scuba - To Her With Love (Spectrum Works)
20. Karin Krog - Meaning of Love - Herbert mix (Crippled Dick Hot Wax!)
21. Tapani Tolpanniemi - Jazzin Around - Dan Balis + Eugene Cho mix (Brique Rouge)
22. Ayro - Let This (Omoa)
23. P'taah - Compressed Light - Black Science Orchestra remix (Ubiquity)
24. Sun Ra - Sunset On The Nile - Eddy & Dus Kontrapunkt mix (Mo Smog)
25. 4 Hero - Hold It Down - Kaidi Tatham remix (Talkin Loud)
26. Heal - Bubblin - Broken mix (Key Recordings)
27. Vikter Duplaix - Manhood (Talkin Loud)
28. Les Gammas - Guauancho - Recloose mix (Compost)
29. Micatone - Playmobile Soldier (Sonar Kollektiv)
30. Grupo X - X-perience (Loft)
31. Olli Ahvenlahti - Grandma's Rocking Chair (Crippled Dick Hot Wax!)
32. Flora Purim - Vera Cruz (Milestone)
Next events:
6. June Budapest, Kultiplex /Keyser with Fauna Flash (Compost Records, D), Leengum
8. June Vienna, Café Leopold /Keyser with Forms of Plasticity (live)
15. June, London, Club Thirteen: Further Out Records clubnight /Shuriken with Richard E, Simon S, Oh!-Polo
16. June, Graz (A) /Keyser with Rui Torrinha (Oporto) (tbc)
17. June, Budapest, West Balkan: Bomb The Jazz /Keyser with Rui Torrinha (Oporto); resident: Suhaid (tbc)
1. July, Budapest, West Balkan: Bomb The Jazz /Keyser with Belgradeyard Sound System (Belgrade); resident: Suhaid
4. July, Sopron (H): VOLT Festival /Keyser with Sofa Surfers (live), Leengum
8. July, Budapest, West Balkan: Bomb The Jazz /Keyser with Lil Tony (Nuspirit Helsinki); resident: Suhaid (tbc)
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