IdleRich
IdleRich
Sometimes someone takes a tune and records their own version of it and releases it... a cover. Similar but different is when someone takes the good bit of someone else's tune and puts it in their own tune - ie sampling. But what do you call it when someone gets someone else's tune and releases it again themselves making only the most minute changes but (at least in the cases I'm thinking of) changing the name and making no acknowledgement of the original?
In the examples I am thinking of this would often happen with diggers finding some obscure old tune and releasing a bootleg of it themselves under a different name. I guess the point was that only a few people would recgnise it and so they would get both the credit and the money from their release with minimal risk. There being little chance that the original artist would be still alive and hear it and, even if they did, the assumption being that it was unlikely that they had the will and/or resources to pursue the income from a small twelve inch run.
But today, I heard this one track on a mix and I recognised it and... I think it was this from 1988
Or maybe it was this from 1986
Or this also from 1986
I just kinda wonder why there are three releases of effectively the same song within two years. And is there a name for this kind of thing? It feels to me that it goes beyond sampling and that it differs from sampling which is often celebrated for the clever usage of parts of other songs, how they are put together and so on. Whereas with this kind of thing it seems that the cleverest thing is getting away without being sued. Or is there some other point that somehow I'm missing?
Also, are there any other examples of this that spring to mind?
In the examples I am thinking of this would often happen with diggers finding some obscure old tune and releasing a bootleg of it themselves under a different name. I guess the point was that only a few people would recgnise it and so they would get both the credit and the money from their release with minimal risk. There being little chance that the original artist would be still alive and hear it and, even if they did, the assumption being that it was unlikely that they had the will and/or resources to pursue the income from a small twelve inch run.
But today, I heard this one track on a mix and I recognised it and... I think it was this from 1988
Or maybe it was this from 1986
Or this also from 1986
I just kinda wonder why there are three releases of effectively the same song within two years. And is there a name for this kind of thing? It feels to me that it goes beyond sampling and that it differs from sampling which is often celebrated for the clever usage of parts of other songs, how they are put together and so on. Whereas with this kind of thing it seems that the cleverest thing is getting away without being sued. Or is there some other point that somehow I'm missing?
Also, are there any other examples of this that spring to mind?
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