Showing Revision 2 created 11/22/2011 by peter890.

1. Title:
   Everything is a Remix
2. Description:

   Remixing is a folk art but the techniques involved — collecting material, combining it, transforming it — are the same ones used at any level of creation. You could even say that everything is a remix.
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   Remix.
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   To combine or edit existing materials to produce something new
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   The term remix originally applied to music.
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   It rose to prominence late last century during the heyday of hip-hop,
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   the first musical form to incorporate sampling from existing recordings.
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   Early example:
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   the Sugarhill Gang samples the bass riff from Chic’s “Good Times” in the 1979 hit “Rapper’s Delight”.
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    Since then that same bassline has been sampled dozens of times.
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    Skip ahead to the present and anybody can remix anything
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    — music, video, photos, whatever —
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    and distribute it globally pretty much instantly.
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    You don’t need expensive tools,
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    you don’t need a distributor,
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    you don’t even need skills.
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    Remixing is a folk art — anybody can do it.
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    Yet these techniques
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    — collecting material, combining it, transforming it —
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    are 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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    Part One: The Song Remains the Same
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    Jimmy Page recruits John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, and John Bonham to form Led Zeppelin.
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    They play extremely loud blues music that soon will be known as—
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    Wait, let’s start in Paris in 1961.
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    William Burroughs coins the term “heavy metal” in the novel “The Soft Machine,”
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    a book composed using the cut-up technique,
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    taking existing writing and literally chopping it up and rearranging it.
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    So in 1961 William Burroughs not only invents the term “heavy metal,”
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    the brand of music Zeppelin and a few other groups would pioneer,
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    he also produces an early remix.
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    Back to Zeppelin.
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    By the mid-1970s Led Zeppelin are the biggest touring rock band in America,
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    yet many critics and peers label them as
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    rip-offs.
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    The case goes like this.
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    The opening and closing sections of “Bring it on Home” are lifted from a tune by Willie Dixon
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    entitled — not coincidentally — “Bring it on Home.”
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    Performed by Sonny Boy Williamson
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    “The Lemon Song” lifts numerous lyrics from Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor.”
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    “Black Mountain Side” lifts its melody from “Blackwaterside,” a traditional arranged by Bert Jansch.
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    (Traditional, Arranged Jansch)
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    “Dazed and Confused” features different lyrics but is clearly an uncredited cover of the same-titled song by Jake Holmes.
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    Oddly enough, Holmes files suit over forty years later in 2010.
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    And the big one, “Stairway to Heaven” pulls its opening from Spirit’s “Taurus.”
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    Zeppelin toured with Spirit in 1968,
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    three years before “Stairway” was released.
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    Zeppelin clearly copied a lot of other people’s material,
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    but that alone, isn’t unusual.
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    Only two things distinguished Zeppelin from their peers.
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    Firstly, when Zeppelin used someone else’s material,
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    they didn’t attribute songwriting to the original artist.
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    Most British blues groups were recording lots of covers,
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    but unlike Zeppelin, they didn’t claim to have written them.
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    Secondly, Led Zeppelin didn’t modify their versions enough to claim they were original.
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    Many bands knock-off acts that came before them,
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    but they tend to emulate the general sound rather than specific lyrics or melodies.
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    Zeppelin copied without making fundamental changes.
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    So, these two things.
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    Covers: performances of other people’s material
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    And knock-offs: copies that stay within legal boundaries
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    These are long-standing examples of legal remixing.
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    This stuff accounts for almost everything the entertainment industry produces,
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    and that’s where we’re headed in part two.
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    Written and Mixed by Kirby Ferguson
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    Follow this project on Twitter: Twitter.com/RemixEverything
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    Full sources, references, and purchase links at EverythingisaRemix.info
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    Wait, one last thing.
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    In the wake of their enormous success,
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    Led Zeppelin went from the copier to the copied.
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    First in the 70s with groups like Aerosmith, Heart and Boston,
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    then during the eighties heavy metal craze,
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    and on into the era of sampling.
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    Here’s the beats from “When the Levee Breaks” getting sampled and remixed.
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    In Zeppelin’s defense, they never sued anybody.
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    Hi, I’m Kirby, I made the video you just watched, Everything is a Remix.
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    If you enjoyed the video please head over to EverythingisaRemix.info and donate a little money.
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    Anything you can muster would be greatly appreciated
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    and will help me dedicate time to completing the remaining three episodes
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    – it’s going to be a four part series.
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    The site has plenty of complimentary information that I think you might find interesting as well.
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    You can also find links to songs and videos and stuff from the video.
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    If you happen to like them you can go there and purchase them.
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    It’s also a good way to keep up with the latest with what’s going on with the series.
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    I think that’s it.
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    Okay, thank you for watching and I’ll see you next time.