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Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene?
gloom writes "In 2000 the Finnish demoscene musician Janne Suni (also known as 'Tempest') won the Oldskool Music Competition at the Assembly demoparty with his four-channel Amiga .MOD entitled 'Acid Jazzed Evening.' A Commodore 64 musician called 'grg' remade the song on the C64 (using the infamous SID soundchip); it is this that was stolen. The producer's name is Timbaland and he is one of the hottest names in American music these days. The track in question is called 'Do it' and it is featured on the Nelly Furtado album 'Loose' on the Geffen label. Getting nowhere with Geffen, the demoscene has now risen to the aid of Tempest, first by creating a stir at SomethingAwful (files downloadable from the forum), then at Digg.com, then on YouTube, with a video demonstrating the blatant ripoff. Being an online-posting musician myself — what rights do I have if this should ever happen to me, and what can be done to raise awareness about such things?"
That's amazing. No doubt that the Furtado track ripped them off!
>> Name a type of music that has been more influential in the last 30 years.
> How about, um, rock music? Rock music in all its form hasn't exactly been out of style and dead since early 1977.
The emphasis above is my own. And that is what I think you missed in your response. Sure, Rock is doing fine, but it isn't influential the way that Hip-Hop is. Hip-hop has greatly influenced Rock (e.g. Red Hot Chili Peppers, all the Nu-Metal bands, etc., and that is just the rap aspect of Hip-Hop). Nearly every hit single is influenced by Hip-Hop these days; the same can't be said for Rock.
Note that this is irrelevant to my opinion about the genre. Personally I tend to listen to Post-Punk.