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Comment by R

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:06:17 -0800

See also Terry Riley's reworking of "You're No Good," from 1968.

Comment by segal

segal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:06:46 -0800

Excellent post, Chris.

I forgot another early example of sampling: Bernard Parmegiani's Pop'eclectic from 1968.

Comment by segal

segal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:08:41 -0800

And good call on Terry Riley; You're No Good is an amazing piece of R&B deconstruction.

Comment by GKB

GKB — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:47:31 -0800

"Since the definition of music remains an ever-changing, moving target, it might be more useful to define music as a way of listening."

That is the single smartest statement I've heard on the topic of music in a very very long time.

Comment by Fawkes

Fawkes — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:24:28 -0800

Excellent response to the post by Charles, deflating its passive-aggressive stance on electronic music, although I'm surprised and depressed that this conversation even needs to happen in 2007.

Comment by -m

-m — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:58:32 -0800

I wanted to take the time to dispel the myth that electronic/hip hop music is simply a collection of assembled samples and synthesized data. While I do agree that a lot of it is put together that way it is an incredibly unfair generalization to lump it all together. Some of us actually do "play" in the traditional sense and record our tracks much in the same manor as other genres. Speaking for myself, I am a reasonably accomplish keyboard player that has composed and performed everything from classical, jazz, rock to techno (I'm even willing to admit off the record that I've done some country stuff too). My approach to composing for each of these genres are fairly similar. The only real difference is in the orchestration, harmonic relationships, and the silly rules that each genre dictate. The thing that attracted me to eventually become an electronic producer is the fact that I have a nearly infinite palette of sounds and approaches available to me. Yes I can approach it in a traditional sense but I can also incorporate many non-traditional methods and blend it all together. That my friends is incredibly liberating. I would be playing Jazz if it didn't lose it's sense of sonic exploration. There is a lot that goes into creating electronic music that I don't think people are aware of. That's fine but there are too many published assumptions made about how it is created that are flat out erroneous and perpetuates this misinformation to the reading public. Yes you might know a dude that string a whole bunch of beats and samples (not that that in of itself is a bad thing) together and call it a song but I also know a whole bunch of peeps that call themselves "singers" that, well, you get the picture. Generalizations are bad and this is at least one "musician" that electronic music has turned out and I know tons of others as well.

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