Plunderphonics
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jazzy_daveFollowing on from the previous post, i have been reading a music book by Simon Reynolds called Retromania. I have come to the section on sampling. Sampling is that hauntology between a DJ or mixer and the dead weight of vinyl.There is a ghostly demarcation between what was once recorded and then becomes a ghost in the machine,since all recordings are capturing a past moment that is not the present.
One such plunderer of recycled grooves is John Oswald, famous or infamous for his CD Plunderphonics, which he use to distribute freely making no commercial gains from it.
The Plunderphonics album containing twenty-five tracks, each using material from a different artist. In 1990, notice was given to Oswald by the Canadian Recording Industry Association on behalf of several of their clients that all undistributed copies of Plunderphonics be destroyed under threat of legal action.
Oswald said "I wasn't selling the disc in the stores, so I let listeners tape it off the radio for free," explains Oswald, who paid for the production and manufacture of the CD out of his own pocket. He receives no royalties or financial compensation for airplay. Brian Robertson, president of CRIA says, ``What this demonstrates is the vulnerability of the recording industry to new technology...All we see is just another example of theft."
Oswald received notice from CRIA's lawyers demanding that he cease distributing Plunderphonic as of Xmas eve '89. "They insisted I quit playing Santa Claus," Oswald observes.
He describes that a plunderphone is a recognizable sonic quote, using the actual sound of something familiar which has already been recorded.
So here is one of the tracks from Plunderphoics, which did see a reissue in 1996 , based on a Michael Jackson tune called Dab.
Enjoy
One such plunderer of recycled grooves is John Oswald, famous or infamous for his CD Plunderphonics, which he use to distribute freely making no commercial gains from it.
The Plunderphonics album containing twenty-five tracks, each using material from a different artist. In 1990, notice was given to Oswald by the Canadian Recording Industry Association on behalf of several of their clients that all undistributed copies of Plunderphonics be destroyed under threat of legal action.
Oswald said "I wasn't selling the disc in the stores, so I let listeners tape it off the radio for free," explains Oswald, who paid for the production and manufacture of the CD out of his own pocket. He receives no royalties or financial compensation for airplay. Brian Robertson, president of CRIA says, ``What this demonstrates is the vulnerability of the recording industry to new technology...All we see is just another example of theft."
Oswald received notice from CRIA's lawyers demanding that he cease distributing Plunderphonic as of Xmas eve '89. "They insisted I quit playing Santa Claus," Oswald observes.
He describes that a plunderphone is a recognizable sonic quote, using the actual sound of something familiar which has already been recorded.
So here is one of the tracks from Plunderphoics, which did see a reissue in 1996 , based on a Michael Jackson tune called Dab.
Enjoy
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