Legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins learned the power of the one from playing in Brown's band, and brought it to George Clinton, who created P-funk, an expansive, Afrofuturistic, psychedelic exploration of funk with his various bands and projects, including Parliament-Funkadelic. Of course, many other funk acts followed in the '60s, and the genre thrived in the '70s and '80s as the disco craze came and went, and the originators of hip-hop and house music created new music from funk and disco's strong, flexible bones built for dancing. As David Cheal eloquently explains, playing on the one "left space for phrases and riffs, often syncopated around the beat, creating an intricate, interlocking grid which could go on and on." You know a funky bassline when you hear it its fat chords beg your body to get up and groove.īrown's 1965 classic, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," became one of the first funk hits, and has been endlessly sampled and covered over the years, along with his other groovy tracks. The Godfather of Soul coined the phrase and style of playing known as "on the one," where the first downbeat is emphasized, instead of the typical second and fourth beats in pop, soul and other styles.
It's rare that a genre can be traced back to a single artist or group, but for funk, that was James Brown. Individuals who create samples, loops, and other sonic content for other creators to use.should have an opportunity to be compensated just like songwriters and performers."Įxclusive: Chad Hugo On N.E.R.D. "We are actively developing a new music industry at Splice," Lee said, "one that doesn't rely solely on the product of finished songs or albums. Splice Chief Business Officer Jonathan Lee calls sound-creation in samples "collaborative content," which points to the advantage of streamlining licensing agreements and payouts through their dedicated online platform. "We can finally pull back the curtain for sound creators and enable them to focus on making the best sounds by supporting them with a wide array of resources," he said, "from financial investment to best practices for sample creation." Capsun ProAudio founder Jay Pulman is coming on board to serve as the initiative's creative director. The Splice Creator Initiative intends to spread this "new world order" across a wider community of musical artists including those hoping to get in business licensing their own samples. "Splice is really creating a new world order for musicians of all stripes." "Until now, it's been very difficult for those that create all these musical elements to have a consistent platform to release our work, never mind a regular income stream," said Sample Magic's founder Sharooz Raoofi. who've recently been able to make a livelihood based on sample creation.Īs described in Billboard, Splice has also acquired the Capsun ProAudio and Sample Magic labels, which specialize in samples. This is of course vital to artists such as Karra and Krs. This is accompanied by the encouraging trend that these regular payments doubled in the last year. The bottom-line number on remunerations is $10 million in royalty payments to sample-music creators, paid since 2015. When making audio samples, the hope is always that they will groove once integrated into a song-Splice is creating a remunerative and nurturing cloud-based environment for that art. 17, online music creation and collaboration site Splice announced progress on several fronts including artist payouts, label acquisitions and launch of their indie-oriented Splice Creator Initiative.
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