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Muzak
I can't get over the muzak in my office. The range is pretty broad. I've been considering this for a while, but the last 2 tunes I've heard (only in the bathroom) finally drove me to it. I'm gonna log all the tunes I hear on the muzak, just for giggles. You can find the last.fm profile here. Enjoy!
Culture in Action
So, there's this song by Run-D.M.C. called Peter Piper, which is a great tune. It features a kalimba(?) sample from Bob James' Take Me to the Mardi Gras, which is actually a song by Paul Simon. Fun enough, but then Missy Elliott samples it in her hit, Work It. I'm almost positive that it's a sample from RunDMC and not from Bob James, because there's extra bass beat involved.
Okay, let's add this. In the Bob James tune, there's a snippet of radio coming across that clearly was found sound, but that he most likely doesn't own the copyright to. RunDMC's sample includes this, and so does Missy's. So Missy's snippet is a sample of a sample of a sample.
So, who does she pay royalties to?
Anyway, that's what culture is, and that's how it progresses: building on the old to create something new.
Peter
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