The MAJOR RECORD LABELS (AKA, the "MUSIC INDUSTRY") want you to think that they are PROTECTING artists from THEFT when they crack down on illegal SAMPLING. These same people demand that the artists GIVE AWAY the COPYRIGHT to their OWN MUSIC as a STANDARD part of a record deal. There are those who believe ROBIN HOOD was nothing more than a THEIF. We think he was pretty COOL.

The average number of samples per track is 49. The total is 588. Is what we do original? You tell us.

LINKS:

• Monkey Farm Frankenstein
  Our partners in crime, they helped create the Evil Dead song. They make sample-based horror-movie-techno-breaks.

• Negativland The single most historically important sampling band. This website is a also a great resource for essays and information about "intellectual property" and the perversions of copyright law.