Tag: Public domain
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Keep Tracking: Trackers and 16 bit music
I have covered the musical history of trackers and 16 bit music before on the podcast, but this is a great in-depth historical look at the ‘sound of software piracy’ – although I’d argue that the early Amiga demos like the 1988 classic Wild Copper were more coding brags and weirdly computer shop adverts (?)…
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YouTuber gets copyright claim for playing Beethoven
Today’s entry in Copycrazy-right? is Marina from The Piano Keys, a musical blogger who does tutorials on how to play pieces on the piano for the last five years. She did a video on Piano Sonata No, 14 aka Moonlight Sonata, playing a piece written by Beethoven in 1801. She then got a copyright claim…
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New Depeche Mode mashup video
A story of Dave and his teddy bear – something spooky for Halloween, but for any day! Not created a mashup video for a while, created for Rhythm Scholar’s great remix with various 1950’s and 1960’s old film footage from public domain and Creative Commons sources such as Prelinger Archive. This marks my third Depeche…
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ToTom – Novae Servae (Prodigy Version) video
I’ve created a new video for ToTom’s Kanye of the Stone Age project. As a bonus he created a Prodigy version of his Novae Servae mashup – Wild Frontier joining Kanye West’s New Slaves and Queens of the Stone Age’s Avon (and is that a little bit of Bunsen Burner by CUTS?). While editing this…
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Kids, Lawns and Unhappy Campers
I must say this is a strange one – a NPR intern writes that she’s not owned many albums in her life but has 11,000 songs – fairly typical for that generation, as much as you might deplore it. Then Oscar the Grouch, sorry David Lowery comes along and his long toilet-roll rant about how…
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Copyright Criminals and the Funky Drummer
Copyright Criminals – the 2009 documentary have released a special DVD edition with extras from the likes of Clyde Stubblefield (the original Funky Drummer – although I dispute the ‘Most sampled drummer’ tag as Greg Coleman who did Amen break in the Winstons has been sampled in many more songs since 1989!). So to promote…