How dumb court decisions made it impossible to sample like the Beastie Boysslate.com 13 pointsmariorz14 years ago1 commentSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−joejohnson14yDamn, this author really doesn't listen to a lot of music. Greg Gillis has become the poster child for mashups, but mashups had been a part of the cultural zeitgeist for a long time before Girl Talk was discovered.Just one famous example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_AlbumThis is to say nothing of all the heavy sampling in EDM in the last decade plus.
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Damn, this author really doesn't listen to a lot of music. Greg Gillis has become the poster child for mashups, but mashups had been a part of the cultural zeitgeist for a long time before Girl Talk was discovered.
Just one famous example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album
This is to say nothing of all the heavy sampling in EDM in the last decade plus.