Quote Originally Posted by Greg Silver
first of all something to deafmosaic:
in a german board, boris and me DID apologize, we never used CONSCIOUSLY a loop, which has already been used in another record. the loops we were blamed for are from a record we have never possessed. i promise. there was a real loop-rip of one of sven´s records from another artist (3 loops in one track!!!) also and sven huddled it together. now sven and we are friends again,we phoned about 1hr and all the differences are cleared.
o.k. mate fair enough. i jumped the gun in accusing you, but you must admit that using these loops so prominently in your arrangements can easily create a situation like this.

Quote Originally Posted by Greg Silver
another thing is dj amok. and it isn´t of interest for me, if he is an artist from you, too. he is only a friend of sven, not directly affected in any way and called me and boris "motherf...", "dick suckers" and lots more and spread this over the boards. sorry, this is definitely NOT objective and we pull our consequences out of that.
i´m not angry about any of your statements, but please do a difference between objective discussions and insults. would you accept them? i don´t think so.

ok, i understand ben has insulted you personally. he has apologized. I WILL TALK WITH HIM. i would consider it a personal favor if you boys would stop giving him a hard time and allow me to convince him to not speak about you folks any further. i am not trying to be a dick, but ben is one of ours and if you all continue to try and damage his career, i will not be happy.

again, i would look at it as a favor to me, if you boys would lay off him, he is having a tough time and is learning hard life lessons every day. anyone who knows me knows that i am a man of my word so the ball is in your court. if you insist on persuing retaliation against Ben (amok) i will have to consider it a personal insult on my word and will be very ............ disapointed.


i appreciate your time in answering all of these inquiries and hope that you boys will make an effort to create music which is less limilar to others in the future.


now i would like to say a word to the board. firstly, death on a stick has a noble point about originality, mark also has a good point and i always used to say: "it aint the box, its how you bang it." but at the end of the day, the trouble here is that folks cant be bothered to stay on the right side of that originality line, and in some cases the culprit is the thought that "my new track sounds like 'that other track'"

this is the poison of our industry. all of us are guilty of this to some degree whether we admit it or not, but we must make an extra effort to create our own approach to making music, otherwise homogeny will eat us all up.


i was also caught up on one side of this debate without examining all of the possibilities, my excuse is that one of my own was very passionate about "his side" but beyond all this, you skulltunes boys and the rest of us alike should be learning from this ridiculous fiasco:

try to make some music which is easily recognized as yours.

i like to think i have my own "gunjack sound" as does emergence/mark and miro/the anxious/etc. but it isnt enough to think this way, we have to prove it with every release.


a close friend once told me that my work gets better with every track, it is a compliment i will cherish for ever. the day my work goes stagnant and i am unable to find a new approach to expressing myself effectively, that is the day i begin with a new medium.