Comments on: It’s Just Begun (Going Way Back) https://metabunker.dk/2012/01/22/jimmy-castors-its-just-begun/ by matthias wivel & friends Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:12:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Matthias Wivel https://metabunker.dk/2012/01/22/jimmy-castors-its-just-begun/comment-page-1/#comment-34519 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:12:53 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=3937#comment-34519 The implementation of stricter sampling laws in the nineties were a huge blow to hip hop. You can clearly hear the change in the music in the late nineties, when original drum production and sparser use of samples, pared down the wonderful sound collages of the earlier part of the decade.

In some ways necessity fostered new creativity, but to many — including myself — the music overall was the poorer for it. So yeah, I agree that hip hop played the dubious role of canary in the coal mine.

]]> By: Andreas Geisler https://metabunker.dk/2012/01/22/jimmy-castors-its-just-begun/comment-page-1/#comment-34513 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:48:51 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=3937#comment-34513 Hi Matthias, that was a great read, thanks!
In these SOPA/PIPA times, this reminded me of the sampling fee hoohaas of twenty years ago. It seems to me that the record industry was staking their claim back then, and that sampling corresponds to file sharing in many ways. What do you think? I guess the greater public missed the boat, and didn’t stand up for hiphop when they/we should have. Maybe the consequences were too far off, and the freedom of information was still a fledgling thing. Would things have been different, if the record industry had not been allowed such leeway?

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