Origins videos - DJs take a listen (and others that like sampling)

[fingertrouble]

Really good video series about the origins of sampled music:

http://www.djtutor.com/briansredd/

Daft Punk for a start:

Comments

[blachubear.livejournal.com]

Pretty cool. There's other You Tube videos where you can find some of the original tracks that the artist sample from which is cool but it's kind of sad how today's artists don't know how to write original music on their own. Still it's cool to watch & see where they got those tracks from. Thanks for posting this. Take care & Big Bear Hugs.

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

"sad how today's artists don't know how to write original music on their own."

Well thee previous generations - say Stones, Zep, Beatles, ZZ Top lifted stuff like crazy from (mostly) black artists and unknowns...but they seem more acceptable cos they replayed it - I say sneakier. At least nowadays people can track back and get into the sources, which for the likes of Lyn Collins, Marlena Shaw or Camille Yarbrough got well-deserved if late praise because of sampling. Ditto James Brown - he wasn't the icon he was today in the late 70's / early 80's, it was sampling that brought him back.

And Daft Punk credited most of those...and what they did with say ELO or Sister Sledge is very creative, as shown in his videos...to break it down - like in this video:



That's truly creative, and hard to recreate, as this guy found, it's not just loops. And finding a perfect loop is quite hard.

I must say I was disappointed when I heard Breakwater as I thought they'd come up with that sound...