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Re: Kanye West and King Crimson



>dude come out with your own music and stop taking others...it's just bad karma.

Dull old opinion... 

I must say that this guy holds very little interest to me musically, but sampling KC ain't no crime in my book... he's written many originals too. 

One more thing , West made a video a number of years back using a very obscure and cool effect, wrongly called data-moshing.  It's a very edoteric effect based on removing the keyframes from videos so they dont update nee information, and although HE didn't personally make his own video, it showed to me that the guy has some genuine interest in doing experimental things. 

Strange to lambast one of the least offensive artists of the time.


Mark

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On 12 Dec 2010, at 08:42, Jeffrey Collins <jeffreycollins1975@gmail.com> wrote:

just took a listen and realized I had heard that a while back. and was pissed about it then. dude come out with your own music and stop taking others...it's just bad karma.

Jeffrey

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Toby G <carpet8@mac.com> wrote:
It will be interesting to see if people start buying Crimson music due to this.  Naahh...to complex for them.
 
toby
----- Original Message -----
From: Art Simon
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 8:10 PM
Subject: OT: Kanye West and King Crimson

I'm out of touch with popular music, and I'd never listened to Kanye West until, well, two days ago.

On his latest album he has a song "Power" where he samples King Crimson. That got my interest. But there's more to it than just the sample. Here's a quote from a review:

"But more important is the hook that anchors the song. It sounds like a vocal re-creation of the King Crimson song's monster guitar hook; but as it's been transformed, it invokes another acute examiner of current cultural-political dramas: M.I.A. The hook's hand claps and feminine tone -- as well as the Symbolyc One-co-produced track's whole sound, much more redolent of global hip-hop than of electroclash, which West may have left behind -- sets West's verbal tirade within M.I.A.'s larger context of global oppression and resistance by people of color. Justified? Maybe not. But it's a typically bold Kanye leap."

I think it's great. Anybody else out there think anything of this song?
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