Plunderphonics

Sekeresh, I think is how you say that.

They're probably best known for their Plunderphonics masterpiece, Since I Left You, which was released back in 2000. as well as the 16 years of silence that followed.

But all of their albums have been quite well-reviewed.

No Bad Memories is their fourth LP, and it's typical of their recent approach in massing together a huge diversity of samples and guest musicians, from Weezer's Rivers Cuomo to Tunisian footwork artist Khadija Alhanafi.

Great.

The last one in this section is from a band called The Avalanches, which is a Plunderphonics band.

After this clip, I'll talk a little bit more about that.

This is Frontier Psychiatrist.

He was white as a sheep.

And he also made false teeth.

oh yeah, so that, that opens up the whole, if you don't know, Plunderphonics is a genre that's, like, almost exclusively samples of other things, usually musical, like, not from film, but these guys, this album is, like, very pivotal in that genre, this and, I'd say, DJ Shadow's Introducing, I highly recommend both of those, if you're Enjoy that.

Like, the DJ Shadow album, he has a song called The Numbers Song that just, like, it takes that bass line from Metallica's Orion and just kind of, like, matches it up, makes a whole new thing out of it, and then adds a bunch of other stuff, obviously.

You know, you don't really know.

But it is interesting what it means to, like, cover and change Plunderphonics, because the album itself has had quite a few, I think, variations on its own, right? Because it's one of those rare, pretty popular Plunderphonics albums.

Mm-hmm.

There are reissues and versions.

I think that it is so interesting that the idea of a cover in music, which is, you know, do I play the song faithfully? Do I...

expand on it i stylistically mix it up they're like a weird jazz rearm of it and you get some of that because there's a lot of stuff like later there's some like trippy lo-fi that i don't think was really stylistically like something you would have heard in the late 90s like when this came out in 2000 like some of the more modern like lo-fi jazz aesthetics so to do that but still kind of then know what the source material is is cool from samples like it's just I'm more interested in that theory of it because since I left to use a great album, this is a really fun and interesting cover of that entire project.

But I just think a lot more about what it says about Plunderphonics because one of the original arguments of Plunderphonics is that your sample becomes your instrument, right? And that's why it should be allowed because it's just making music with music.

So now they're making layer three of music for music for music.