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egypturnashSo I was wasting time checking out MC Honky (link: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
explodingmikan). I'm not sure if I like his music or not; it's in much the same abusing-old-records vibe as the guys who did that 'Nice Weather For Ducks' video. The track with a video even involves a duck.
Then I listen to 'What A Bringdown'. And right there at the beginning is a vocal sample I've heard before, lurking in the middle of an Amon Tobin track.
Hey man, didja hear what happened to Fay?
Yeah, it's really a drag. Yeah, what a bringdown.
MC Honky cuts it off there; when Tobin used it, he let whatever the source is run for a little longer:
So where do you wanna go? (Rosie's!) Rosie's? That's cool. Outta site man, we'll dig it! Okay...
And then the Tobin track gets bigger and more menacing.
It's disconcerting to hear an obscure sample used in another tune. Somewhat off-putting. You're very used to it going one way around that cryptic pronouncement from an unknown source, and it goes somewhere dramatically different. There's a sample I heard in a Skinny Puppy track and, I think, an Orb track, that's similarly confusing to me. (And if you ain't careful and holds yourse'f jus' so, you could lose you powa' as well as you heart!, used in a track on 'The Process' and, I think, 'Cydonia').
Visual sampling and remixing, on the other hand, is just annoying. I picked up a used copy of 'Jack Cole and Plastic Man' because I need to study Cole's art, and am reminded what bad design is - the last several pages of the book are, essentially, Chip Kidd (who did the design for the book) masturbating all over Cole's work. Wasting glossy, full-color pages that could have been used for another Plastic Man story, or some more of the girl watercolors Cole did for Playboy. Kidd's design for the collection of production art for the Batman cartoon was like that, too, though not as bad. Book design is there to support the content, not to jump up and down in front of it screaming 'LOOK AT ME', damnit.
explodingmikan). I'm not sure if I like his music or not; it's in much the same abusing-old-records vibe as the guys who did that 'Nice Weather For Ducks' video. The track with a video even involves a duck.Then I listen to 'What A Bringdown'. And right there at the beginning is a vocal sample I've heard before, lurking in the middle of an Amon Tobin track.
Hey man, didja hear what happened to Fay?
Yeah, it's really a drag. Yeah, what a bringdown.
MC Honky cuts it off there; when Tobin used it, he let whatever the source is run for a little longer:
So where do you wanna go? (Rosie's!) Rosie's? That's cool. Outta site man, we'll dig it! Okay...
And then the Tobin track gets bigger and more menacing.
It's disconcerting to hear an obscure sample used in another tune. Somewhat off-putting. You're very used to it going one way around that cryptic pronouncement from an unknown source, and it goes somewhere dramatically different. There's a sample I heard in a Skinny Puppy track and, I think, an Orb track, that's similarly confusing to me. (And if you ain't careful and holds yourse'f jus' so, you could lose you powa' as well as you heart!, used in a track on 'The Process' and, I think, 'Cydonia').
Visual sampling and remixing, on the other hand, is just annoying. I picked up a used copy of 'Jack Cole and Plastic Man' because I need to study Cole's art, and am reminded what bad design is - the last several pages of the book are, essentially, Chip Kidd (who did the design for the book) masturbating all over Cole's work. Wasting glossy, full-color pages that could have been used for another Plastic Man story, or some more of the girl watercolors Cole did for Playboy. Kidd's design for the collection of production art for the Batman cartoon was like that, too, though not as bad. Book design is there to support the content, not to jump up and down in front of it screaming 'LOOK AT ME', damnit.
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Date: 2003-05-22 04:03 pm (UTC)