Ripping other artists off!

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q.musgrove
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Re: Ripping other artists off!

Post by q.musgrove » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:44 pm

^ and don't forget "stride"


any way, Like string tapper was saying, with a very broad scope of input you can see soo many originators. It's hard when you study them to not make similar music to theirs and if you are studying many you can end up with tracks that sound so disparate and more like "these tracks are my X impersonation, and these tracks are my Y impersonation, etc"

My beef is in trying to render my musical voice out of all this and eventually stop thinking about the originators and become one. But you never stop learning right? I don't know, maybe just actually starting to study my own methods and preferences a little more...

This is soooooo much bigger than house, ska, swing.... I'm talking more about expressions here to be more vague.. just what we all need :lol:

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Re: Ripping other artists off!

Post by Mint Invader » Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:21 pm

Shillelagh Law wrote:honestly though, I think house music has to be the hardest genre to be original in. can anyone think of a genre more generic ?
mercifully, 'bad' house music is easy to forget.

not trying to hate on house producers, just saying kudos to you if you can make 'good', memorable house music.
Well the way I see it with house (And all of its sub genres) Is that you have to be more creative on the technical aspects. You work with a 4/4 beat... so you have to eq it "in a unique way" and design a synth "Unique to you"
Because Whatever.

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Re: Ripping other artists off!

Post by Lazos » Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:50 am

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

~William Ralph Inge

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Re: Ripping other artists off!

Post by zalo » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:47 am

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

~William Ralph Inge

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Re: Ripping other artists off!

Post by djsynchro » Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:09 am

I have a side project, all exotic bar/beat division like 13/8 and stuff, Indian scales and a Chihuahua on vocals. The sound is highly original but I have a hard time getting us signed, or a gig.

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Re: Ripping other artists off!

Post by zalo » Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:21 am

djsynchro wrote:I have a side project, all exotic bar/beat division like 13/8 and stuff, Indian scales and a Chihuahua on vocals. The sound is highly original but I have a hard time getting us signed, or a gig.
that sounds like you are ripping off Caninus

http://www.myspace.com/caninus

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