The promoters are now denying it was a heart attack - or was even
said. It could have been the MC Rhymefest who said it was a heart
attack. I was too cold to take it in!
But he didn't play Perth from what I understand, his son stepped in.
On 24/11/2008, at 12:24 AM, Michael Kuszynski wrote:
I always thought 2 second samples were fine, that was the golden rule.
And who cares - on no! Kraftwerk lost their WHOLE careers cause some
amateur rapper used 2 seconds of some random track of theirs, OH THE
INSANITY!
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Fred Heutte
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nothing in the mainstream press but there is this. Also see below:
http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/aust/40542/
Illness_forces_Kraftwerk_to_miss_Melbourne_Gl
obal_Gathering
Illness forces Kraftwerk to miss Melbourne Global Gathering
Kraftwerk miss Melbourne
The first ever Global Gathering tour of Australia kicked off
yesterday
in Melbourne, but all did not go to plan with German electro
godfathers
Kraftwerk missing their headline set to due a sudden and very serious
illness.
"Last night at the Melbourne Global Gathering event Kraftwerk band
member, Fritz, was very unwell and was attended to by our onsite
medical
team," read a statement, issued today by Future Entertainment. "On
advice of the doctor, he did not play at the event as was
transported to
hospital for observation. Subsequently, Kraftwerk did not perform and
the Gorillaz were moved to the main stage to play the closing set."
"Rhymefest, one of Mark Ronson's MCs, made the announcement to the
waiting crowd," the statement continued. "We're happy to announce
that
Fritz has been cleared to fly and will be playing at the Perth event
today. Kraftwerk and Future Entertainment apologise to Kraftwerk fans
who missed out on seeing this legendary outfit perform in Melbourne."
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articles/1316-mc-
Kraftwerk-loses-german-copyright-case.htm
Kraftwerk loses Copyright case in Germany
21 November 2008
Kraftwerk loses German Copyright case
The genius that is Kraftwerk suffered a blow this week when
Germany's appeal court ruled that
sampling music does not in principle violate copyright. The
previous ruling ruled in Kraftwerk's
favour which said that reusing even the shortest bit of a song
infringed on copyright. While
sampling is still an infringement the court found that the sample
must be part of a completely
new musical work bearing no resemblance to the original.
The case concerned a German rap producer Moses Pelham who used a
two-second sample
from an early Kraftwerk classic "Metal on Metal".
Incidentally I saw Kraftwerk play with Nagsy at the Manchester
Apollo in 1981. We were 15.
They were jolly good.
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