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> I'd say one of the hallmarks of electronic music was that it wasn't built from copyrightable samples Yup, exactly. See, for instance, the 1937 ondes Martenot
by lelandfe 5y ago
> I'd say one of the hallmarks of electronic music was that it wasn't built from copyrightable samples
Yup, exactly. See, for instance, the 1937 ondes Martenot composition Oraison as an example.[0] Other electronic progenitor genres, e.g musique concrete, did use samples but they were widely not copyrighted sounds.[1][2]
Hip-hop, however, would not exist without illegal sampling.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EU0ISo996A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EU0ISo996A
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pOq8u6-bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pOq8u6-bA
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8_fhIKeOX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8_fhIKeOX0
- hnlmorg 5y agoQuoting artists from the 30s is a little disingenuous but maybe I should have been more explicit and said "electronic dance music" (which is also the significantly larger body of creative content). And in those genres copyrighted samples were used heavily.