Kevin Saunderson…

 
Music

Dear friends, fans and members of the music industry

Today Im giving away as a free download one of the productions I am most proud of:

The Sound – Reese & Santonio (1987, KMS Records)

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I recorded The Sound back in 1987 and released it on my own KMS Records label. It was a massive hit at New Yorks Paradise Garage and in Chicago and of course Detroit. Once it hit the UK it became one of the earliest Detroit anthems all around Europe, a huge underground record across the globe – a true desert island techno track. It is such a special record to me because it was one of my first really successful productions and I hope that you all will enjoy this free, fresh digital download of my original 1987 version.

The reason I have decided to give this track away for free is because of a situation that recently developed involving the unauthorized sampling of The Sound by Italian producers Giacomo Godi & Emiliano Nencioni (Supernova) in their release Beat Me Back on Nirvana Recordings. It came to my attention that they are licensing and selling, with considerable success, this track which is nothing more than a continuous loop of the main hook from The Sound.

FROM THE DESK OF KEVIN SAUNDERSON

For me to hear Supernova taking an extended loop of The Sound and claiming that this is their own original composition and production is both dishonest and disrespectful. My first thought was that they were perhaps nave, but as they have apparently been recording together since 2002 this seems unlikely. In any event this is completely unacceptable, we cannot continue to let this kind of wholesale rip off go unchallenged and tolerate artists who completely sample recordings, add nothing of their own and then release the results as their own work.

I have a huge affection for sampling, its how some of the most inspiring and ground breaking tracks of our times were created. Weve pretty much all sampled records at some time, and cleared the sample so we can use it on our releases, but it is just not cool to take someone elses music, create a big old loop of it and then put your name on it and try to have success entirely off the back of another artists efforts. This really has got to stop. For this reason, I have uploaded the Godi/Nencioni version of The Sound to Soundcloud so that you all can download this for free if you so wish. These producers and their record label should not be profiting from my back catalogue… this is not their track to sell.

LISTEN TO THE RIPOFF TRACK HERE

The Sound rip off/now called Beat Me Back By Supernova, what the hell by Kevinsaunderson

Peace

Kevin Saunderson – KMS Records, Detroit USA

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