Plagiarism in Music.

Ally Dick wrote: »

I'd love to watch Rachel Stevens performing Strict Machine dressed like Goldfrapp. Phwoarr

p.s. is Strict Machine a rip off of Donna Summer "I Feel Love" ?

Nah, don't hear that at all....I Feel Love (particularly original 12" and the Patrick Cowley extended mixes) are always played in my car and I know that track inside out. Maybe I've a blind spot for it but I don't hear it when I hear strict machine....

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Trading sounds happens in dance a lot. They sample a riff or whatever and list the original authors. A famous example is Stardust Feels Like The Music Sounds Better With You and the crossover House group Modjo who sampled the riff on their famous hit 'Lady'.

Minho sampled Soup for One by chic actually and stardust sampled Fame By Chaka khan actually....2 different songs.

I'll post vids later (on phone now)

Stadust "Music Sounds....."


Chaka Khan "Fate"


Modjom "Lady"


Chic "Soup for One"



I could give you dozens of examples like that, but they're all legal, a couple of lesser known examples:

Samples......



Samples....


It's always been hard for me to get my head around the fact that this (esp. the 14+minute 12inch):


is built on this:


Lesser known samples:

is built on......



From Boney M's.....



Taken from....(skip to just after the 3min mark)



From



is from.....



Something more poppy?

is from



is from - go to around 2:35



(Disco/House are my specialist areas ). I would argue no genre has been sampled more than Disco, but again sampling is different from plagiarism. The above is off the top of my head and prob. explains why I'm banned from pub quizzes......

All of the above were accredited samples listed on the more "modern" singles. I see that as VERY different to plagiarism or copying/borrowing. As I said above though I could literally do this all day and give dozens of examples like this. It's often a case where the sampled track becomes far more recognisable than the the original track...