Did Thom Yorke "borrow" my beat?

Years ago, Radiohead had a contest where they put out a bunch of studio outtakes and samples and challenged their music-making fans to create songs out of them... and every week, for a few weeks, they picked their favorites. I submitted one, and it was selected.

today i am listening to a recent Thom Yorke solo e.p. and i hear this song that contains some "drum" programming which sounds similar to my submission. did thom yorke bite my song?

what do you think?

Thom Yorke - "Jetstream"

dtrenz (me) - "capillaries"

kinda similar

.i like yours way better, my answer is... the accents are very similar and then the voice thing.yeah TOTALLY.(but probably not)

they sound very similar

i think you might have the moral victory here

however, since it's not a sample, and you're not protected against "covers" of drumbeats, you'd have a bit of a challenge getting legal with it

holy shit! i'm curious how you feel about this blicero. flattered , angry?

Email Radiohead and ask. Maybe you'll get a response. ;p

Christ, they're pretty damn similar, even in general song structure.

Yeah I reckon it's your sample, nice track too - downloaded it.

edit: yours, the thom one is meh.

i'd email him really.

If he ignores you I'd take it to the streets/web. Twitter/digg/slashdot/reddit the shit out it, post it on every imaginable site. It'll get picked up and people will make a big deal out of it. :D

crowd source your revenge.

  On 12/22/2009 at 12:22 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

i'd email him really.

 

If he ignores you I'd take it to the streets/web. Twitter/digg/slashdot/reddit the shit out it, post it on every imaginable site. It'll get picked up and people will make a big deal out of it. :D

 

crowd source your revenge.

Good idea - do that!

ps. your avatar is brilliant!

  On 12/21/2009 at 9:53 PM, blicero said:

Years ago, Radiohead had a contest where they put out a bunch of studio outtakes and samples and challenged their music-making fans to create songs out of them... and every week, for a few weeks, they picked their favorites. I submitted one, and it was selected.

 

heh, just out of curiosity, do these radiohead studio outtakes and samples still exist^_^ what radiohead tidbit did you use for your song ?

OK, good to know I'm not just hearing things.

First off, I'm not trying to build a legal case, or anything like that. I'm flattered, if anything. The only think I would ever want would be some tiny bit of recognition (even if it wasn't made public).

All sounds used in my song were from the Radiohead contest samples, which can be found here: http://www.citizeninsane.eu/loophole.html

I can't remember exactly which samples I used, but I believe I used at least these 3:

BTW, thanks for the nice feedback on the track.

i've sent this thread to like 5 of my musician friends, people don't realize how often this type of stuff happens. anybody remember black moth super rainbow and mileu/brian e *runs*

Cool tune (yours)!

I think it's a coincidence though. The beat also reminds me of Dial by Ae, some Kid606 track I can't think of, etc. But that is weird.

pff, wow, you've invented jungle music

i don't know very many posters who jump at the chance to express naivety besides you mr Brian tregaskin, and that i congratulate you for

haha thanks

how do you feel about being stuck with the handle Brian Tregaskin for all watmm eternity

  On 12/22/2009 at 7:48 PM, Awepittance said:

i've sent this thread to like 5 of my musician friends, people don't realize how often this type of stuff happens. anybody remember black moth super rainbow and mileu/brian e *runs*

link pls

  On 12/22/2009 at 10:45 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 12/22/2009 at 7:48 PM, Awepittance said:

i've sent this thread to like 5 of my musician friends, people don't realize how often this type of stuff happens. anybody remember black moth super rainbow and mileu/brian e *runs*

 

link pls

seconded

  On 12/22/2009 at 7:48 PM, Awepittance said:

i've sent this thread to like 5 of my musician friends, people don't realize how often this type of stuff happens. anybody remember black moth super rainbow and mileu/brian e *runs*

yawn

btw, didn't you backpedal in the thread about that, after reasonable explanations were given? troll.

  On 12/23/2009 at 8:07 AM, vodor said:

  On 12/22/2009 at 7:48 PM, Awepittance said:

i've sent this thread to like 5 of my musician friends, people don't realize how often this type of stuff happens. anybody remember black moth super rainbow and mileu/brian e *runs*

 

yawn

 

btw, didn't you backpedal in the thread about that, after reasonable explanations were given? troll.

the reasonable explanation being that black moth super rainbow ended up making their own track out of materials originally by Milieu & Brian E? look at the thread again. I guess Mileu didn't want credit for it, but it's a similar scenario. Artist has people remix them, remix gives original artist inspiration for his own song, artist makes own song of inspiration. In this case Yorke did it without asking Blicero's permission.

i thought that's what i basically said above, but i guess it could be read as that bmsr did a track based on the free festival song, i just meant that inspiration was provided for elements on a bmsr final track. which you reiterate here.

brian e still thinks in part they stole a song off of him, that's why i even mentioned this in the first place. we only heard one side of the story in that thread.