Promo pour son prochain album, ou rancoeur soudaine ? Aphex Twin a dévoilé une anecdote à Pitchfork au sujet d’un sample que Kanye West aurait utilisé sans son accord :
Is it a sample? I actually don’t know what it ended up being in the end, I’m so slack. I know that he tried to fucking rip me off and claim that he’d written it, and they tried to get away with not paying. I was really helpful, and when they first sent it to me, I was like, “Oh, I can re-do that for you, if you like,’ because they’d sampled it really badly and time-stretched it and there was loads of artifacts. I was like, ‘I’ll just replay it for you at that speed if you want.” And they totally didn’t even say “hello” or “thanks,” they just replied with, “It’s not yours, it’s ours, and we’re not even asking you any more.”
Voici les extraits pour se faire une idée :
• « Blame game » de Kanye West (2010)
• « April 14th » d’Aphex Twin (2001)
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