Evening Dissensus crew - been lurking for a while but thought I'd stick my head above the parapet and bring something to your attention.
Compare and contrast...
A: New Black Dog on Dust Science (released today)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF189035-01-01-01.mp3
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/189035-01.htm
B: CiM - Shift (from Service Pack EP, first released on Delsin in 1999)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF137860-01-01-04.mp3
It's fairly obvious that the Black Dog record has lifted a substantial chunk from the CiM record, then added new beats and some new melodies. Nothing particularly outrageous so far, although surprising than an artist of The Black Dog's, erm, pedigree (sorry) would resort to sampling a fellow electronic artist to form such a big part of his tune. But what makes this case slightly more disturbing for me is a couple of posts on this thread:
http://www.discogs.com/forums/topic?topic_id=69615
Martin Dust (who is now apparently one third of The Black Dog) says: "I can confirm the album contains no samples of other artists and none of are us aware of CiM or any of their/his tunes - none of us have ever heard of CiM until a couple of weeks ago - although please feel free to
point me a the tune [...] all I can say is we certain haven't sampled CiM or anyone else on the album - although CiM must have a couple of Oberheims, as that's what made the sound in the first place."
There's a bit more discussion going on at http://www.littledetroit.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11919 but I'm interested to know what peeps on here think. Out of order or par for the course?
Compare and contrast...
A: New Black Dog on Dust Science (released today)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF189035-01-01-01.mp3
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/189035-01.htm
B: CiM - Shift (from Service Pack EP, first released on Delsin in 1999)
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF137860-01-01-04.mp3
It's fairly obvious that the Black Dog record has lifted a substantial chunk from the CiM record, then added new beats and some new melodies. Nothing particularly outrageous so far, although surprising than an artist of The Black Dog's, erm, pedigree (sorry) would resort to sampling a fellow electronic artist to form such a big part of his tune. But what makes this case slightly more disturbing for me is a couple of posts on this thread:
http://www.discogs.com/forums/topic?topic_id=69615
Martin Dust (who is now apparently one third of The Black Dog) says: "I can confirm the album contains no samples of other artists and none of are us aware of CiM or any of their/his tunes - none of us have ever heard of CiM until a couple of weeks ago - although please feel free to
point me a the tune [...] all I can say is we certain haven't sampled CiM or anyone else on the album - although CiM must have a couple of Oberheims, as that's what made the sound in the first place."
There's a bit more discussion going on at http://www.littledetroit.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11919 but I'm interested to know what peeps on here think. Out of order or par for the course?