TheMgnt@aol.com wrote:
By saying 'so much bandwidth', I meant that nobody is going to change anyone's opinion or get new legislation passed which determines what is/isn't a remix.
Fair enough. We know what I classify as being a remix, what's yours? In what manner do you consider the Villalolbos track a proper remix? That's all I'm asking. If you played someone this track and asked them to guess the track or at least the artist being remixed and I don't think anyone, even you, would be able to tell me it was WTIL. This could be a remix of the Orb, Pet Shop Boys, Backstreet Boys, Atomic Kitten...
And even if you did, can you imagine what's next? Who determines what is 'enough' content, how many notes constitute a 'riff', what is the legal definition of a hook - whatever. My point is that there is no tribunal to which one has to "justify it as a remix" other than in the court of your wallet.
Sorry, but you're pushing it to a ridiculous extreme. No one is threatening lawsuits. As I said before quite clearly, I expect some recognizable element of the original track to be present. So I ask again - what is it about this track that tells YOU it's a remix and not an original composition with "KLF remix" slapped on it? Now, to be fair it DOES contain the line "i wanna see you sweat" but it's certainly not Wanda Dee nor is it sung in that style. This could just as well be a remix of Dee's track.
-paul
Sorry, but you've confused the trees for the forest, i.e., you've missed the point. If you would have left the post I made intact instead of editing it to make it appear that my 'forensic' metaphor was the point instead of a metaphor to make the point, it would be obvious. Again, let me make it clear : your opinion of what makes a remix a remix (and, mine, for that matter) is just that and ONLY that. A remix uses something of the source material and beyond that, who can say what it is? and THAT is exactly my point...and not actual lawsuits. The metaphor works precisely because these are not matters which can be stated as objective facts and to which one can sign "QED" at the conclusion and these discussions ultimately dissolve into varieties of amen choruses. You don't like it? Don't buy it. I would rather be in the camp that experiments, but it is true that people tend to like what they know. That is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it necessarily a good thing. Argue on. I've things to do. jeff