augustus pablo king tubby meets rockers uptown rar

As David Toop explains in The Audio Culture Reader, to dub (or “double”) is to both reinvent and recreate, conjuring multiple versions from the material of the song and “spreading out a song or a groove over a vast landscape of peaks and deep trenches, extending hooks and beats to vanishing point…”.

Dub is the place where pre-existing sonic material can be recast, remade, freed from the specific requirements of the song and allowed to grow in different directions. These two cases, which highlight the complex relationship of original to inspiration, a largely legal context that willfully ignores how art evolves, makes the re-release of Augustus Pablo’s King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown on Clocktower Records even more significant. And while the ruling in the Kraftwerk case concluded that modified and unrecognizable samples could still be used without permission, recognizable samples could only be used with the express permission of the original artist. Within the last weeks, two crucial court cases have ruled against the unauthorized use of sampled material Katy Perry was found guilty of the plagiarism of a drum beat and, after 20 years in the courts, Kraftwerk won against Moses Pelham and Martin Haas, who had used a two-second sample from Kraftwerk’s “Metall Auf Metall” without permission.

Augustus pablo king tubby meets rockers uptown rar