From Chuck D's perspective, I don't think that this has a much to do with remixing as sampling in general. Now, there is an artistic aspect to remixing itself. For example, see what DJ Danger Mouse did with Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatle's White Album before it was shut down.
But either way, a large part of Chuck D's success with Public Enemy was the music produced by the Bomb Squad on their It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Fear of a Black Planet albums. On those albums, the Bomb Squad sampled tons of music to produce those tracks. This site has a list of many of them. And in fact, sampling existing music has been part of rap since the beginning with DJs mixing tracks. Such production, though, is not viable today due to the crackdown on such practices without paying royalties, and actually paying royalties would have enormous cost. This issue actually came up in the testimony Chuck gave before Congress regarding file-sharing (where opposing testimony was given LL Cool J).
With Creative Commons, artists would be able to sample existing music for their own tracks and be able to sell them, while still respecting the copyrights of the original artist and avoiding the financial burdens that royalties impose.
This (Google cache) interview with Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad and Chuck D discusses some of this stuff further.
Of course I'm kidding. I know that Mark Cuban has always been a Mavericks fan and he's done an awesome job with that team. Unlike most stingy owners, he is willing to spend the money to get his team a championship. ++Cuban for that.
If this had gone through, would M$ now own the Seattle Mariners? It's difficult to imagine Bill Gates being a sports guy.. but I guess Mark Cuban was able to make the transition pretty well.
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From Chuck D's perspective, I don't think that this has a much to do with remixing as sampling in general. Now, there is an artistic aspect to remixing itself. For example, see what DJ Danger Mouse did with Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatle's White Album before it was shut down.
But either way, a large part of Chuck D's success with Public Enemy was the music produced by the Bomb Squad on their It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Fear of a Black Planet albums. On those albums, the Bomb Squad sampled tons of music to produce those tracks. This site has a list of many of them. And in fact, sampling existing music has been part of rap since the beginning with DJs mixing tracks. Such production, though, is not viable today due to the crackdown on such practices without paying royalties, and actually paying royalties would have enormous cost. This issue actually came up in the testimony Chuck gave before Congress regarding file-sharing (where opposing testimony was given LL Cool J).
With Creative Commons, artists would be able to sample existing music for their own tracks and be able to sell them, while still respecting the copyrights of the original artist and avoiding the financial burdens that royalties impose.
This (Google cache) interview with Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad and Chuck D discusses some of this stuff further.
Of course I'm kidding. I know that Mark Cuban has always been a Mavericks fan and he's done an awesome job with that team. Unlike most stingy owners, he is willing to spend the money to get his team a championship. ++Cuban for that.
If this had gone through, would M$ now own the Seattle Mariners? It's difficult to imagine Bill Gates being a sports guy .. but I guess Mark Cuban was able to make the transition pretty well.