RA: Plagarism in electronic music
December 3, 2009
This fantastic article on Resident Advisor looks at the problems associated with the use of sampling in electronic music. In particular at what point does sampling become plagerising? Author Richard Brophy speaks with a fair cross section of artists and industry types on both sides of the issue – both the sampled and the samplers so to speak – and the result is a surprisingly candid and frank discussion about dance music’s dirty little secret.
