Did Aphex Twin cross the line? "XTAL" How was it made?
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Published 2024-02-11
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All Comments (21)
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The foundation of the track is that chord progression, which wasn't even in the original sample. So yeah it's obviously heavily relying on the sample but Steve saying that it is basically the same track is just nonsense.
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that guy is just mad that Xtal is 1000x better than Evil at play
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Apart from the fact he was likely a teenager at the time, that's basically how samples were used at that time. It was only after a few high profile rap artist were sued it became more of an issue and people started trying to hide the source of the samples. The 80s were different.
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And Evil at Play is basically someone singing the Star Wars theme tune over a pad ..
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“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” —Frank Zappa.
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"Our tune?" It's literally just two notes. Should he have cleared the sample? Legally, yes. Morally I think it such a good example why copyright is stupid.
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No line was crossed, creativity was marinated with More creativity of the highest order. Different Times.
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Bleeps and Bloops did a hardware only cover of the song and there is so much more to that track than just that short sample. It's easy to recreate it now, but think about the work involved when Richard made it 30 years ago on equipment that wasn't as user friendly as today. Evil at Play is basically just a short ambient track you would hear for maybe ten seconds in a movie or tv show, there's no real structure to it. Richard turned that short sample into a full song that is way more complex than the source.
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hu? The whole premise is flawed... the record he sampled for Xtal is a record MEANT to be used as a sound library and thus sampled. What is this guy talking about... what can't actually be the guy who made that record.
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Another inspirational Ableton tutorial. Every one of the videos you have been making recently are my favourite ever tracks, please keep them coming!
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These videos are soooooo good, dead interesting and informative with nice little tips here and there. And the tune selection is great for someone as old as me.who loved them the first time around. Great job👍
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as someone who is both a traditional musician (eg playing instruments in bands) and an electronic producer I always feel conflicted about this. 40% of the music i heard in my teens had the amen in it (in fact i am listening to it now) and the drummer (Gregory Coleman) died homeless .i can't help but feel that is wrong no matter how many great tunes it gave us
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Great video! AFAIK the copyright dispute was settled about 2 years ago and the original artists got 50% credit for the song.
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many folks say it's pronounced as "crystal"
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Non-issue. This is just standard sampling, nothing even close to crossing some theoretical line, and arguably doing a lot more than other sampling we accept as totally legitimate. Xtal isn't a substitute for Evil At Play. The context is changed, it means something different, it is something different.
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I thought Aphex Twin used a entire full enormous track, BUT IT'S JUST A LA´LA´LA! JESUS CHRIST STEVE! WHAT WERE THE CHANCES OF YOU BEING LISTENED TO AROUND THE WORLD WITH A LALALA TRACK? I bet AT didn't get rich because of this track.
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XTAL is my morning alarm, nice to get so much indepth info on a tune I am now very familiar with!
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If you use Dexed as the DX7 you can get the exact same preset he used, it's called String5 I think
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Amazing breakdown, keep up with the content!!!
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there's a difference between 'the morality of sampling' and 'who gets paid after a song is made using samples'. Work has been based on other work in every artform ever, literally no one thinks 'sampling', 'paying homage', 'putting text into use', etc is immoral.
