fractal wrote:bah, that's just one example in a scene filled with them. guess no one was around in the eighties,,,
one of my favorite hip hop producers, 9th wonder, makes beats straight out of loops and get's paid for all of em
just curious as to how y'all feel about dilla? he made a lot of changes to loops but also just used loops straight up... or is it acceptable in hip hop? curious as to where you guys draw your lines
what can't you understand about the difference between sampling and stealing?
Listen to what Reark has posted, actually listen to it, now tell me what Zomby did was just 'sampling'. He's literally just cut the intro, took out some vocal, and added little edits to the drums. That's it. The main body, content, synths, concept, and emotion of the track came from Reark. Yet Zomby feels entitled to release the track under his own name, openly brag about writing it himself, then profit of it without even the slightest credit to it's creator.
How anyone can compare that to cutting up a sample of something and interpreting it into an original piece of music is beyond me. It's not even a copyright/legality issue here, it's the moral bankruptcy of it.
No offence, but anyone who thinks Zomby is in no way in the wrong here is a dickhead. This is pure theft.