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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by lelandfe on Monday November 29, 2021 @11:51AM (#29382035)
> I'd say one of the hallmarks of electronic music was that it wasn't built from copyrightable samples

Yup, exactly. See, for instance, the 1937 ondes Martenot composition Oraison as an example.[0] Other electronic progenitor genres, e.g musique concrete, did use samples but they were widely not copyrighted sounds.[1][2]

Hip-hop, however, would not exist without illegal sampling.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EU0ISo996A

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pOq8u6-bA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8_fhIKeOX0

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Re:Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds wi... by hnlmorg on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:52AM (#29391570)
Quoting artists from the 30s is a little disingenuous but maybe I should have been more explicit and said "electronic dance music" (which is also the significantly larger body of creative content). And in those genres copyrighted samples were used heavily.
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