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   The term 'remix' originally applied
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   to music.
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   It rose to prominence late last
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   century during the heyday of hip hop,
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   the first popular music form
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   to incorporate sampling from
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   existing recordings.
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    Early example:
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    Sugarhill Gang samples the base riff
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    from Chic's 'Good Times' in the 1979 hit
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    "Rapper's Delight".
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    Since then, that same baseline
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    has been sampled dozens of times.
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    Skip ahead to the present and anybody

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    can remix anything - music, video, photos,
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    whatever - and distribute it globally almost
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    instantly. You don't need expensive tools,
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    you don't need a distributor, you don't even
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    need SKILLS. Remixing is a folkart - anybody
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    can do it. Yet these techniques - collecting
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    material, combining it, transforming it - are
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    the same ones used at any level of creation.
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    You could even say that everything is a remix.
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    To explain, let's start in England in 1968.
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    Jimmy Page recruits John Paul Jones,
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    Robert Plant, and John Bonham to form
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    Led Zeplin.
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    They play extremely loud blues music that
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    will soon be known as - wait. Let's start in Paris,
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    in 1961.
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    William Burroughs coins the term 'Heavy Metal'
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    in the novel "The Soft Machine" - a book
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    composed using the cut up technique, taking
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    existing writing, and literally chopping it up
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    and rearranging it. So in 1961, William Burroughs
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    not only invents the term "heavy metal",
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    the brand of music Zeplin and a few other groups
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    had pioneered, he also produces an early remix.
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    Back to Zeplin.
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    By the mid-1970s, Led Zeplin are the biggest
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    touring rock band in America.
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    Yet many critics and peer label them as
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    "Ripoffs".
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    The case goes like this.
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    The opening and closing sections of
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    "Bring It On Home" are lifted from
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    a tune by Willie Dixon entitled,
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    not coincidentally, "Bring It On Home".
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    "The Lemon Song" lifts numerous
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    lyrics from Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor".
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    "Black Mountainside" lifts its melody from
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    "Blackwaterside", a traditional arranged by
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    Bert Jansche.
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    "Dazed and Confused" features different lyrics
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    but is clearly an uncredited cover of the
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    same titled song by Jake Holmes.
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    Oddly enough, Holmes files suit
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    over 40 years later, in 2010.
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    And the big one, "Stairway To Heaven"
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    pulls its opening from Spirit's "Taurus".
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    Zeplin toured with Spirit in 1968,
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    three years before "Stairway" was released.
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    Zeplin clearly copied a lot of other people's
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    material, but that alone isn't unusual.
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    Only two things distinguish Zeplin from
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    their peers.
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    Most British blues groups were recording
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    lots of covers, but unlike Zeplin,
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    they didn't claim to have written them.
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    Many bands knock off acts that came
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    before them, but they tend to emulate the general
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    sound rather than specific lyrics or melodies.
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    So these two things: covers - performances of other
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    people's material, and knockoffs - copies
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    that stay within legal boundaries, these
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    are long standing examples of legal remixing.
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    This stuff accounts for almost everything
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    the entertainment industry produces
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    and that's where we're headed in part 2.
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    Wait, one last thing.
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    In the wake of their enormous success,
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    Led Zeplin went from the copier, to the copied.
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    First in the 70s with groups like Aerosmith,
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    and Heart, and Boston, then during the 80s
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    Heavy Metal Craze, and on into the era of sampling.
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    Here's the beats from "When the Levee Breaks"
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    sampled, and remixed.
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    In Zeplin's defense, they never sued anybody.
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    Uh, hi, I'm Kirby. I made the video
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    that you just watched, "Everything Is A Remix".
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    If you enjoyed the video, please head over
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    a little money. Anything you can muster
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    would be greatly appreciated and will
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    help me dedicate time to completing the
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    remaining three episodes - it's gonna be a 4 part
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    series. The site has plenty of complementary
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     information that I think you might find interesting
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     as well, and you can also find links to songs
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     and videos and stuff from the video if you
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     them. It's also a good way to keep up with the
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     latest of what's going on with the series.
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     Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.
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     ♫I said a hip hop
     Hippie to the hippie
     The hip, hip a hop, and you don't stop, a rock it out
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     ♫Bubba to the bang bang boogie, boobie to the boogie
     To the rhythm of the boogie the beat