Friday, October 3, 2014

Remix music has always been around

Lately we have been talking about rap music in class. The fact that most, if not all, rap/hip hop artists uses remixes of other beats. Rap/hip hop is new in our culture and the remix of beats is so clear, many criticize, sometimes rightfully so, of this fact but Rap/hip hop is not the only genre that remixes beats and full songs even. Blues being a main one as well as rock. In fact many rock bands if not all the legendary rock bands took directly from the blues : Led Zepplin, Eric Clapton, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Beatles, and many more.
This is Elmore James (King of the slide guitar) song Dust my broom.

This Robert Johnson (King of the Delta Blues) about ten years earlier.
Both amazing artists and known in their own right but same song.

1. Culture always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the
future.
3. Our future is becoming less free.
4. To build free societies you must limit
the control of the past.

This the original version of hound dog. By Big Mama Thornton.
This song became well known from Elvis, years later.
 Remixes are not new and new genres are built from the past. In which can control the future if we do not try to become free from it, not all of it.

The problem with some new music is that they just end up redoing the same and not bring an additive to their music to make something new. These artists (arguably not Elvis) became free because they added more to the remix of another.

    Eric Clapton's version of a Robert Johnson song.


1 comment:

  1. Give credit to the author (Bermingham) for the four points.

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