Rational Disco

i just think if what you were doing was art it would mean more to you. you'd make more of an effort. you would be more selective about the noises that constitute your music. you'd want tones, rhythms, harmonics etc that you have control over. instead of trying to shoehorn some samples into the trac...

......what the hell happened to this thread?!?!?!

so basically anyone who does a remix is a cheater and the remix they created is not a valid song or even an expresion of their creativity right? We better stop buying remixes and supporting labels that have remixes on their releases because they are all a bucnch of talentless hacks. That's what I w...

a composer had the possibility to use some extracts from another piece of music of another musician to illustrate a particular purpose in his own creation. it has always been a commonly accepted practice... Yeah but if the ultimate purpose now is just to have people recognise the source and that's ...

In general it is cheating. But everyone's opinions on this on the surface aren't that different. Everyone would probably say something to the effect of 'Sampling is ok if you're taking something and making it your own', it all depends what you mean by 'sampling', 'making a sound your own'. Vanilla I...

I always find it funny when you see a big DJ's PR copy, and a big deal is made of them being classically trained as a kid, "Then he heard Gary Numan(It's ALWAYS Gary Numan) and the rest is history!" etc. I've a feeling if I actually looked into it, I'd find all those guys with a similar st...

I'm not against actual sampling, just lifting anything from other people's music.