French dance gurus Justice offered a little lawyer-bait in an interview with MTV, revealing that they didn’t bother to clear many of the samples they used on their debut album, Cross.
Speaking to MTV, Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay confirmed what many fans have suspected for a while when they said: “we sample really small bits of things that nobody can recognise”.
“If you listen to Genesis, the first track, there are samples of Slipknot, Queen and 50 Cent, but they are such short samples no one can recognise them. The ones from Slipknot, for example, are just tiny bits of the voice.”
Justice did make sure that the obviously lifted material was legit. ”On the album, we used three big samples that we had to clear,” they confirmed.
It’s safe to assume that they didn’t clear their statements with their lawyer, either.
Sasha Frere-Jones from the New Yorker has written an descriptive 
Open Labs is putting together a music festival in Austin, TX at the Mohawk October 24-25th. The winner of this competition will win an Open Labs Gold Neko worth 24k. Open Labs' Co-founder and chairman, Victor Wong, claims that he is giving away his personal gold NeKo as a token of appreciation to the musician community for Open Labs' success, and as a celebration for Open Labs' five year anniversary. I had no Idea that this company has been around for that long.
Today Noteflight.com launches its new online music software which will dramatically change the way musicians create, edit and share musical compositions. Noteflight is a Web-based application requiring no software installation that enables anyone with a web-browser to create a score using standard music notation. The site still has some bugs to work out but it still seems promising.The application allows you to post your compositions on your website or blogs.
Keri Hilson's world is perfect, well according to her it is. She's penned numerous hits for countless mainstream artists, she’s been featured on a flurry of chart topping hits and now, with a little assistance from Polow Da Don's, Zone 4 Music Group, Timbaland's, Moseley Music Group and the Interscope Records conglomerate, Hilson has one mission on her mind; In A Perfect World..., her solo debut due out October 14.
