I want this book to be much more than just collected research. Not that there is anything wrong with that, and I do intend to continue doing research for quite a while on this topic, but I really want to speak with artists I consider important to sampling as an art form to get their personal and sociological perspective on themselves and their music. With that said, I've created a rough list of people I want to interview/speak with. I've attempted to contact two of these parties but haven't had any success yet. I don't know what exactly I'm supposed to do when contacting musicians and artists, so hopefully someone may have mercy on me and provide me with some details. Until then though, I'm just going to keep on calling and writing people in hopes that someone will help me out.
Here is that rough list of people I want to communicate with:
Negativland
Steinski
DJ Shadow
Zappa Family Trust
Christian Marclay
John Oswald
Rick Rubin
Sean "Puffy" Combs
Grandmaster Flash
The Avalanches
Matt Dike
The Dust Brothers
Beastie Boys
Jack Dangers
Soulwax
Richard X
Trent Reznor
Strictly Kev
Aphex Twin
Autechre
Paul McCartney
Prince Paul
Soul Coughing (Mark De Gli Antoni and Mike Doughty)
MC Hammer
Bill Laswell
RZA
Hank Shocklee
Dr. Dre
Quentin Tarantino
Coldcut
Mike Meyers
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Danger Mouse
Girl Talk
Madlib
If they weren't dead, that list would also include:
Edgard Varese
John Cage
William S. Burroughs
Teo Macero
Also, in case you're wondering, the reason I've included Quentin Tarantino and Mike Meyers on the list is regarding Tarantino's soundtrack work and re-contextualization of concepts in film and Meyers' attempt to start a business with DreamWorks productions to create films using nothing but pre-existing footage and content.
If anyone might be able to assist me in this gargantuan task, I'd love to hear from you! And if anyone knows how to contact the dead, let me know about that too. I'd love to chat with Frank Zappa for a while if I had the chance!
PS - Added Negativland to the list. Don't know how I missed them in the first place. They've been on every tentative version I've created. What can I say, strange things happen!
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You don't have any of the guys from Negativland on that list. They're definitely worth contacting; I'd look at their book first, of course.
ReplyDeleteMy God! You're totally right David. The funny part is they are on my paper list I transcribed this morning, but somehow I left them off the site. Gonna add that in right now, although you're right, most of their story is very well documented, mostly courtesy of themselves.
ReplyDeleteVery very well documented.
ReplyDeleteThe snuggles mailing list, populated by like-minded individuals, may be helpful as well.
I'd also say De La Soul, since the problems they had seemed to change them. Prince Paul gets at that, perhaps...
Love Unheard, btw. Nice to have a better copy of the Coffee Song...