Prompted by a comment made by my luscious Lashingtail, I’ve opted to spend the better part of the past hour (re-)listening to the new Skinny Puppy disc, The Greater Wrong of the Right, rather than venture into the unexplored territory of some of my more recent arrivals. While the disc itself stands, in my humble estimation, as nothing remarkable, something about it — and only tangentially related, at that — is: it samples, on the track entitled EmpTe, the movie Event Horizon.
Puppy included, I can think of three separate musicians — right now, off the top of my head — who’ve sampled the movie and, what’s more, all sampled the exact same segment. Now, if I can understand the appeal of the sampled portion — choir of the damned, indeed — then, surely, the three bands in question, all of whom draw upon a similar splattercore-horror-cyberpunk aesthetic, can too. What’s more, despite the same sound being used by three separate musicians — three separate musicians who are, arguably, somewhat sonically similar and have a fair number of fans in common — it’s used to a different and enjoyable effect each time.
This is, of course, why rulings like this worry me. It begs the question, as initially outlined by me here: where does it end? How far will this decision reach? What’s next? And, most importantly, what impact shall it have on the creation, and perhaps even evolution, of, not just music, but the entirety of art?
Feh. Colour me scatterbrained. I need to start my marking load for evening. Rest assured, however, that this is something I’m going to be following very closely.
I’m pretty sure that Flesh field also sample that movie, although I’m not 100% certain if it was the same part or not.