Sampling and remix lifestyle is the future, right? Not if you demand a an infinity of music lovers at the moment. The customer to save the CDM Random Rant of the Week is our familiar Liz. It’s an event I be suspicious of has troubled some readers here, especially as music technology is equated to the sample/remix culture (especially if you believe Wired journal and we’re in the era of mash-ups.) convinced, tracks sampling other tracks is nothing new, but the acceptable battles over hep-journey aside, is there a backlash brewing? Do people want to hear something basic, after all? And can Kanye, erm, speak truth to power with both the President of the in accord States and mysterious French electro duos? -PK

…Do[es] anybody make real shit anymore?
Bow in the presence of greatness
Cause right now thou has forsaken us
You should be honored by my lateness
That I would even display up to this fake shit
So go ahead, go nuts, go ape-shit
Especially on my superb get up b endure, on my Bape shit
carry on like you can’t tell who made this…

“Stronger,” ft. material elements of foolish hooligan’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger”

Before I clicked on the link I’m respecting to share with you, I was a hardcore, devil-fist-throwing Daft Punk mega-addict. After the link cavort at the end, I had to reluctantly unite the dolour ranks of jaded music fans who’ve seen through the hype to the source, done admitting that what I had admired was blatant purloining.

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Read the keep on being of unspecified perorate: Daft Punk, Daft Plagiarists? (605 words)

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