I have always embraced the idea of collage, taking existing objects and turning them into something new. Which is why I was never offended about the concept of sampling in Rap music. (“It’s like the old flip books you had as a kid,” an engineer friend was telling me recently, “Oh, here’s a fireman’s hat with a tuxedo and clown shoes, all mashed-up, cool!”) Layering of old records together in Hip Hop is a musical extention of what I loved so much about Joseph Cornell, Kurt Schwitters and Robert Rauschenberg.
Which is not to say that I like all collage or sampled-based music. But I dig the spirit of reinterpretation.
On that note, dig this, a 3-D exploration of Picasso’s seminal painting, Guernica:
that was really interesting.
i am not always sure what i think of picasso's work - but that was a really interesting way to view guernica.
in light of this post, if you are taking requests, i would like to request the theme of next week's beat of the day is an original song that has been sampled and then the track that sampled the song (no worries if this is too much of a pain in the ass)
I can do that. I only hope I haven't gone through all of the really choice ones before. Cause I know I've done that a bunch of times. Send me a personal e-mail if you've got any specific requests.
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Just clicked on #$pn.com and needed to check in and say I stlll HATE Mike Scioscia. Didja' hear Choad's doing Nirvana requests?