Amen Brother - The Winstons

This sample became known as the Amen Break, and was the basis of the D&B, raga, breakbeat and garage genres, while contributing heavily to classic hip hop. Despite being nearly 50 years old. This shows the immense ability of sampling to recontextualise old songs. Without permission of the record label, however, this activity is illegal.

Steal this Film 2 - Notes

This was a really interesting documentary focusing on the utopian idea that, through the internet, we have created the largest library of human knowledge in history and that large corporations seek to control access to this information by invoking copyright legislation that they themselves coerced government into introducing. Creativity in the 21st century, as it has been all through time, is engaging with the culture around you and using imagination to alter and build upon it. This gives a very strong, although biased viewpoint of those who seek to have copyright law update to prevent it infringing on the right of creators.

On the website, an archive of footage and transcripts of all interviews have been made available for use under creative commons. This could prove extremely useful for my project.

Notes:

Massive change in the way we produce and consume

Cable television in 70s was seen as piracy.
VCR - Boston Strangler

"Intellectual property is the oil of the 21st Century"

War - we will fight for the right to ideas

Ridiculous and serious at the same time

Scribal culture controlled who could decode and pass on information

Printed bibles - Unholy work of the devil
Printing was associated with rebellion -> Paper Bullets
Only authorised books were given certain people

Printers met public demand not publisher's wishes

Technology shapes people's habits.
Communicating is itself an act of copying

Why do we share language? -> Because we need to copy each other

Spoken word / Written form / Reproductive tech e.g. photos

ARPA -> Invented networks "ARPANET for scientists" P2P

Heralds of resource sharing

Internet is decentralised -> Other network users create the services

Spectrum environment is "dirty"

We can distribute copies easily. If one copy leaks out, they become available to everyone.

How do you put a wall or a boundary against the very basic desire of sharing

(on kids) Music is free to them. They pay for clothes, things they can touch. Intellectual property? What the fuck is that?

They shattered napster into a million pieces

The files have been shared, there's no way back.

Robert Luxembourg

Peoples' lives are determined by images they have no rights to whatsoever

Radio / Newspaper / TV makes a distinction between producers and consumers (commercial). Internet changes this.

Gatekeepers

If the battle against sharing is already lost and media is no longer a commodity, how will society change?

Contro is up for grabs
Will change be as huge as with the printing press?

"This is the future - and it has nothing to do with your bank balance"

London Grime scene - Grime Reaper /encourage people to spit over their instrumentals + Djs can play remix them for free

People can take mpre of their cultural environment and make it their own.

Skitz beats/ J Sweet

Vague Blur - League of noble peers

Sharing is in our blood
Wiley encourages people to use his music as samples

I want people to realise their own value
They are the masters of their own content

intellectual copyright - terrorism of the mind

You have to create to be part of the community

Things are produced because they care

GR - doesn't know anyone who doesn't get involved with the content they consume

International debate is needed to rewrite the rules. (Utopia)

Brewster Kahle
Making money is not the point with media, making something is.

Unprecidented in human history

We all produce information
We all reproduce information

Credits:
Remix, redistribute, rejoice!

Stealthisfilm.com

Produced by the League of Noble Peers

Full text search and filma archive available on the website.

Entroducing by DJ Shadow

Endtroducing by DJ Shadow (1996) was the first album to be created entirely from samples. (Entered into the Guiness book of records in 2001. This was a hugely important step towards demonstrating the artistic integrity as sampling as a create tool.

Tracklisting and samples from Wikipedia

1 "Best Foot Forward"

"Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra, Part 2" by Stanley Clarke

"It's My Turn" by Stezo

"Real Deal" by Lifer's Group

"He's My DJ" by Sparky Dee featuring DJ Red Alert

"Poison" by Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo

"Dynamite" by Masters of Ceremony

"Cold Chillin' in the Spot" by Jazzy Jay featuring Russell Simmons

"Do or Die Bed-Stuy" by Divine Sounds

"Party's Gettin' Rough" by Beastie Boys

"You Can't Stop the Prophet" by Jeru the Damaja

2 "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt"

"I Worship You" by Lexia

"I Need You" by H.P. Riot

"I Feel a New Shadow" by Jeremy Storch

"Soul Food" by Frankie Seay and the Soul Riders

"Planetary Motivations (Cancer)" by Mort Garson

"George Marsh on Drums: Interviewed by Terry McGovern" from the LP Music Makers Percussion, released by the Chevron/Standard Oil Company of California

3 "The Number Song"

"아름다운 인형 (Get Ready)" by He 6

"Orion" by Metallica

"Breakdown" by T La Rock

"AJ Scratch" by Kurtis Blow

"Quit Jive'in" by Pearly Queen

"Baby Don't Cry" by The Third Guitar

"Sexy Coffee Pot" by Tony Alvon and the Belairs

"Back to the Hip-Hop" by The Troubleneck Brothers

"Bad Luck" by Don Covay and the Lemon Blues Band

"Can I Kick It? (Spirit Mix)" by A Tribe Called Quest

"Who Got the Number" by Pigmeat Markham and the B.Y.

"Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie" by DJ Grand Wizard Theodore and the Fantastic Five

"Corruption Is the Thing" by Creations Unlimited

"Flash It to the Beat" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

"Freelance" by Grandmaster Flash

"Been Had" by Sapo

4 "Changeling"

"Soft Shell" by Motherlode

"Klondyke Netti" by Embryo

"Invisible Limits" by Tangerine Dream

"Imagination Flight" by the Chaffey College Jazz Ensemble

"Touching Souls" and "Inner Mood I" by Kay Gardner

"The Man Who Couldn't Cry" by Loudon Wainwright III

5 "Transmission 1"

Dialogue from the film Silent Running

Audio from the film Prince of Darkness

0:35

6 "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)"

"The Vision and the Voice, Part 1 - The Vision" by Flying Island

"Monica" by The People's People

"Numbers" by Kraftwerk

5:08

7 Untitled

"Grey Boy" by Human Race

0:24

8 "Stem/Long Stem"

"Love Suite" by Nirvana

"Tears" by Giorgio Moroder

"Linde Manor" by Dennis Linde

"Freedom" by Murray Roman

"Variazione III" by Osanna

"Blues So Bad" by The Mystic Number National Bank

"Oleo Strut" by Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company

"Moshitup" by Just-Ice featuring KRS-One

7:48

9 "Transmission 2"

"The Human Abstract" by David Axelrod

"The Madness Subsides" by Pekka Pohjola

"Dolmen Music" by Meredith Monk

Audio from the film Prince of Darkness

1:29

10 "Mutual Slump"

"Possibly Maybe" by Björk

"Love, Love, Love" by Pugh Rogefeldt

"More Than Seven Dwarfs in Penis-Land" by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin

4:02

11 "Organ Donor"

"Tears" by Giorgio Moroder

"Someone" by Tim and Bill

"There's a DJ in Your Town" by Samson and Delilah

1:57

12 "Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96"

"There's a DJ in Your Town" by Samson and Delilah

"Snap" by Cleo McNett

0:43

13 "Midnight in a Perfect World"

"Outta State" by Akinyele

"Sower of Seeds" by Baraka

"California Soul" by Marlena Shaw

"The Human Abstract" by David Axelrod

"Sekoilu seestyy" (The Madness Subsides) by Pekka Pohjola

"Dolmen Music" and "Biography" by Meredith Monk

"Releasing Hypnotical Gases" by Organized Konfusion

"Life Could" by Rotary Connection

14 "Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain"

"'Pon a Hill" by T. Rex

"Walk on By" from Jo Ann Garrett

Dialogue from the film The Aurora Encounter

"Moment of Truth/Ghetto Shakedown" by Charles Bernstein

"A Funky Kind of Thing" by Billy Cobham

"Let the Homicides Begin" by Top Priority featuring Percy P

"Space Odyssey - 2001" by The Daly-Wilson Big Band

"Soul Brother's Testify" by Chester Randle's Original Soul Sender's

"Fun and Funk (Part II)" by The Fantastic Epic's

15 "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)"

"All Our Love" by Shawn Phillips

"Joe Splivingates" by David Young

"Nucleus" by The Alan Parsons Project

"Voice of the Saxophone" by The Heath Brothers

16 "Transmission 3"

Audio from the film Prince of Darkness

Voice of the character The Giant from the episode "Lonely Souls" of the TV series Twin Peaks

1:11

This live video of the track Organ Donor demonstrates the immense skill required to craft and perform music this way:

Girl Talk- All day deconstructed

This super-impressive infographic by Tyler Gray tears apart every sample from the mash-up album

(source) 

Maybe even more impressive than this is the site mashupbreakdown.com/ which allows you listen to the album as an interactive infogrphic showing you all the samples used.