This just came up on the orb list. Here's more or less what I had to say. Record stores certainly don't like to use the B word, so the usually call them "white labels. The definitely aren't legitimate, since most of the time there's no chance in hell they could afford to license the lengthy samples, or in some cases the couldn't get permission to use them at all. Basically the fact that they are using the samples without the artist's permission makes it a bootleg by definition. These wouldn't be straight up bootlegs, but are certainly bootleg remixes. At the risk of sounding pedantic I included the definition. boot·leg 2. To produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally: a clandestine outfit that bootlegs compact discs and tapes.
-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Gschwend [mailto:ktk@datacomm.ch] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 3:52 AM To: KLF Mailinglist Subject: [KLF] Bastard pop
Hi all,
I've just read some interesting articles about so called "bastard pop", I didn't know the name before but for sure everyone knows the result already. One of the quite known results in Switzerland and Germany is "Like a prayer" from MadHouse. It's a remix from Madonna based on a very nice drumloop which is well known as well for oldschool techno freaks like me :-)
Interestingly they also mention the word "Bootleg" in the same category, so far a bootleg was "just" a copy of the original track without permission by the artist for me. IMHO this word has nothing to do with remixes or am I wrong?
Later they mention the JAM's as well: