YES! Kirby Ferguson finally released the final part (part 4) of his excellent series Everything is a Remix about how advances are made through copying, modifying and combining and current copyright and patent laws are starting to work against the flow. You can watch part 4 here, but if you haven’t seen the series yet, start at part 1.
The Word posted an excellent list of 40 Noises That Built Pop. Essentially it backs up the argument made in Everything is a Remix I talked about last week: some genres lean heavily on the same noises. Though strictly speaking it’s not sampling, how could you ever hear a dubstep song without that distinct wubwubwub, gospel (or seventies rock) without a leslie speaker or gabber without a distorted Roland 909 kick. We all imitate, alter and progress music.
If you ever wanted to get into making atmospheric, ambient mood music that will blow even the most pretentious Coldplay out of the water, there’s a really simple trick to do that. The last few days on SoundCloud, users having been posting songs that were time-stretched by 800% and the result is a beautiful soundscape you can listen to for hours. The interesting bit though is that the songs they used for it are by Justin Bieber and Frank Sinatra. Listen to them and be amazed:
J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis
Frank Sinatra – It Was A Very Good Year TIMESTRETCHED by unsignedhypenl
Update: Make your own!
ANd obviously there’s a rickroll version too:
Update2:
Slipknot turns into drone music:
Wait and bleeeeeeeeeeed (800% pitchshift, Slipknot) by The Nevis DJ