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What is it about sample-based music that makes it so inferior to acoustic music (on average) that culling it en masse "will result in a net increase in quality"

• ChrisArgyle 11y ago
  Don't mistake me, there is no comparison to acoustic music. I use SoundCloud daily to discover new electronic music (which I do with great success) I'm speaking from my frustration with the sea of unimaginative "remixes" that barely diverge from the original mix.
• nosuchthing 11y ago
  Derivative work can be great, sadly lazy derivative work comes off more as theft but in the art world it's a blurry line. [1] [2] [3] Lazy (creative) work seems of no higher quality than lazy work utilizing premade bits. Bad code made from scratch, a bad song written from scratch, or a bad sample based song... Examples of pure sample based musicians: Kleptones: http://www.kleptones.com/pages/downloads.html http://www.kleptones.com/pages/downloads.html Girltalk: http://illegalart.net/girltalk/shop/index.html http://illegalart.net/girltalk/shop/index.html [1] http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/04/19/5-famous-copyright-infringement-cases/ http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/04/19/5-famous-copyr... [2] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/09/art http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/09/art [3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-17/richard-prince-instagram-and-authorship-in-a-digital-world http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-17/richard-pr...