Rocket science

gunther kallmann choir - daydream (mp3)

buddy rich - the beat goes on (mp3)

well, today has been a day of falling foul of ‘optimistic record grading’ and making everything at common cost â£10, even if it was only for the hour or so that it took me to put all of the proper prices back on the till. i hope your day’s been less disappointing and that you didn’t sacrifice eighty two minutes of your life to the god of poorly translated till manuals (i suppose i could always declare myself my own time-zone and get it back that way).

should i write a happy post as a therapeutic exercise? nah, i think i’m just gonna embrace the frustration and see where it goes. now, what can i have a rant about (stop laughing scholes, anyone would think i have some sort of reputation for this sort of thing). oh yes, i’ve got it…

please don’t take this as a slight against sampling. some real magic has come from someone taking a snippet of an existing song (or two) and building it up into something new. however, here are two examples of songs that have been fed on a little too greedily all in one go if you ask me.

i won’t name any names here as i’m pretty sure everyone knows who took the entire chorus of the gunther kallmann choir’s lovely version of ‘daydream’, added their own vocoder verse, some vinyl hiss and got a bit magic-button-happy with the flanger. is it just me that thinks the original’s verses sound more than a just a little bit sinister?

likewise i’m sure you all remember who stripped buddy rich’s chorus away from the, dare i say it, ryan hunn-esque big band sound and, from memory, just looped it for four minutes or so.

take a song you like, sample the whole of the catchiest bit, loop it, add a few minor embellishments to at least ease your own creative conscience and, if you’re feeling really creative, maybe even *gasp* add a slightly beefier kick drum to, you know, make it more down with the kids.

i can’t even begin to describe what this is, but i know what it’s not…

(rant rant rant rant rant)

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