Re: [microsound] sonymash

[JPaul23@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 11/04/2005 17:53:58 GMT Daylight Time, 
kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> I find this interesting that Sony have bought a software tool that
> >clearly used for mash-ups.  A lot of Sony records artists like Destinys
> >Child have been the victim of mash-ups, bootlegs, bastard pop or
> >whatever.  You would think they would be against tools that make the
> >job easy.  Saying that, there must be reason why a lot of pop singles
> >come with a cappellas.  Maybe Sony are using ACID as a carrot to lead
> >donkey bedroom musicians in a direction that benefits the record
> >industry somehow?
> >
> >Hmmm.... actually, that's a bit far fetched... maybe?
> >
> this is a very interesting point and one worth discussing on the 
> list...I remember reading an essay somewhere recently about this very 
> conundrum, i.e. a publishing company manufacturing the software tools 
> for its own 'subversion' (I use that term loosely)...but then 
> capitalism does just this: 'produces the means to its own demise'
> 
> 

  the mash-up artistes are already being co-opted into the mainstream, one of 
the most popular ones from last year, which was Cars by Gary Numan with the 
Sugababes layered on top was actually rerecorded properly by Richard X and 
released by The Sugarbabes, got quite high in the UK pop charts, may even have 
been number one.






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