Loading ...An appeals court in Berlin has overturned a lower court’s decision that producer Moses Pelham was in the wrong for sampling two seconds of Kraftwerk’s “Metal on Metal” on a 1997 track. The ruling sends the case back down to a lower court, although you have to think somewhere Gregg Gillis is celebrating. The higher court stated that the amount of the song sampled was insignificant, and that the sample was used in a manner significantly different than the original track. What difference does this make in the long run? Probably not much, although if you listen to the track “Metal On Metal” was part of against Kraftwerk’s will (both tracks are below the cut), you might understand why those robots were pissed.
Posts Tagged ‘Kraftwerk’
It’s Legal Again To Turn Bits Of Kraftwerk Into Lousy German Rap Tracks
Fri Nov 21 2008 by Dan Gibson
Elbot The Robot And I Discuss “Chinese Democracy” One Last Time
Thu Nov 20 2008 by Lucas Jensen
Given that Chinese Democracy is streaming and leaking, I decided to seek out opinions on the album from the only people to turn to in these turbulent times: robots. I’ve already talked to German Artificial Intelligence Elbot, and chatbot nightmare SmarterChild about the prospects of Chinese Democracy actually coming out. As the prospect of talking to SmarterChild again makes me hate my ancestors for their involvement in my birth, I returned to my only marginally less-annoying pal Elbot to ask him what he thought about the album. It was as successful as last time, which is to say it made me hate science. At least we found out we both like Kraftwerk!
Oh, And
Sun Apr 27 2008 by Maura
Both Portishead and Kraftwerk, who played before Prince, managed to fill Coachella’s huge outdoor space with arresting music and incredible visuals–I’d last seen Kraftwerk ten years ago at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, and I’d forgotten just how striking the tableau presented by the simple… More »
