Manufacturing Consent

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A 30 sec song made of only one sample. Made for Downhill Battle and the project “3 Notes and Runnin'”. The idea is to set up an compilation of songs made of only one sample, with the song length limited to 30 sec. This will show how much the end result may differ from the original sample. The reason is a court law decision heavily limiting the right to use samples, i.e. to make sample based music.

Quoting Downhill: “…the court broke from decades of established sample practice by ruling that all samples, regardless of how heavily manipulated or unrecognizable they may be, are subject either to “clearance” (obtaining permission for use of the sample, usually in exchange for money), or litigation. In an instant, this act made the majority of sample based music illegal.” ” To protest this decision, we are creating a forum for sample-based musicians and artists to share their own 30 second songs which have been created using only the sample in question.”

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