sehr lustig, lest selbst:
http://soundcloud.com/kevinsaunderson/the-sound-rip-off-now-called
Dear friends, fans and members of the music industry
Today I’m giving away as a free download one of the productions I am most proud of :
“The Sound” - Reese & Santonio (KMS) 1987
LINK HERE TO THIS FREE DOWNLOAD KEVIN’S WEBSITE
www.kevinsaunderson.com
I recorded “The Sound” back in 1987 and released it on my own KMS Records label. It was a
massive hit at New York’s Paradise Garage and in Chicago and of course Detroit. Once it hit
the UK it became one of the earliest Detroit anthems right acround Europe, a huge underground
record across the globe - a true desert island techno track. It is such a special record to me
because it was one of my first really successful productions and I hope that you all will enjoy
this free, fresh digital download of my original 1987 version.
The reason I have decided to give this track away for free is because of a situation that recently
developed involving the unauthorized sampling of “The Sound” by Italian producers Giacomo
Godi & Emiliano Nencioni (Supernova) in their release “Beat Me Back” on Nirvana Recordings.
It came to my attention that they are licensing and selling, with considerable success, this track
which is nothing more than a continuous loop of the main hook from “The Sound.”
For me to hear ‘Supernova’ taking an extended loop of “The Sound” and claiming that this is their
own original composition and production is both dishonest and disrespectful. My first thought was
that they were perhaps naïve, but as they have apparently been recording together since 2002
this seems unlikely. In any event this is completely unacceptable, we cannot continue to let this
kind of wholesale rip off go unchallenged and tolerate “artists” who completely sample recordings,
add nothing of their own and then release the results as their own work.
I have a huge affection for sampling, it’s how some of the most inspiring and ground breaking
tracks of our times were created. We’ve pretty much all sampled records at some time, and
cleared the sample so we can use it on our releases, but it is just not cool to take someone
else’s music, create a big old loop of it and then put your name on it and try to have success
entirely off the back of another artist’s efforts. This really has got to stop. For this reason, I have
uploaded the Godi/Nencioni version of “The Sound” to Soundcloud so that you all can download
this for free if you so wish. These producers and their record label should not be profiting from
my back catalogue... this is not their track to sell.
Today I’m giving away as a free download one of the productions I am most proud of :
“The Sound” - Reese & Santonio (KMS) 1987
LINK HERE TO THIS FREE DOWNLOAD KEVIN’S WEBSITE
www.kevinsaunderson.com
I recorded “The Sound” back in 1987 and released it on my own KMS Records label. It was a
massive hit at New York’s Paradise Garage and in Chicago and of course Detroit. Once it hit
the UK it became one of the earliest Detroit anthems right acround Europe, a huge underground
record across the globe - a true desert island techno track. It is such a special record to me
because it was one of my first really successful productions and I hope that you all will enjoy
this free, fresh digital download of my original 1987 version.
The reason I have decided to give this track away for free is because of a situation that recently
developed involving the unauthorized sampling of “The Sound” by Italian producers Giacomo
Godi & Emiliano Nencioni (Supernova) in their release “Beat Me Back” on Nirvana Recordings.
It came to my attention that they are licensing and selling, with considerable success, this track
which is nothing more than a continuous loop of the main hook from “The Sound.”
For me to hear ‘Supernova’ taking an extended loop of “The Sound” and claiming that this is their
own original composition and production is both dishonest and disrespectful. My first thought was
that they were perhaps naïve, but as they have apparently been recording together since 2002
this seems unlikely. In any event this is completely unacceptable, we cannot continue to let this
kind of wholesale rip off go unchallenged and tolerate “artists” who completely sample recordings,
add nothing of their own and then release the results as their own work.
I have a huge affection for sampling, it’s how some of the most inspiring and ground breaking
tracks of our times were created. We’ve pretty much all sampled records at some time, and
cleared the sample so we can use it on our releases, but it is just not cool to take someone
else’s music, create a big old loop of it and then put your name on it and try to have success
entirely off the back of another artist’s efforts. This really has got to stop. For this reason, I have
uploaded the Godi/Nencioni version of “The Sound” to Soundcloud so that you all can download
this for free if you so wish. These producers and their record label should not be profiting from
my back catalogue... this is not their track to sell.
http://soundcloud.com/kevinsaunderson/the-sound-rip-off-now-called
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