Janko Nilovic - Roses and Revolvers
Mr. Nilovic is France’s instrumental composer extraordinaire. Jazz, pop, and movie soundtracks - this man is everywhere. Janko is probably a sampling producer’s wet dream. He’s produced a laundry-list of songs with bare bass lines, guitar riffs, and drums ripe for the plucking. A favorite of the Beatnuts, his song A Chorus for Leslie is the foundation of their song Contact. Roses and Revolvers is a tiny portion of Janko’s work that I truly appreciate. Blogs have been rushing to point out that Jay-Z’s D.O.A. track heavily samples Janko’s song In The Space and apparently has no reservations about hiding it. The art of sampling is supposed to be about flipping a song and utilizing sounds that are captured in the recording and only available in that recording to create a new piece of music. D.O.A. is essentially a loop of In The Space. At that point it should probably be Janko Nilovic ft. Jay-Z. The days of DJ Premier-esque beats, chopping a sample into a million pieces are long behind us. To quote Hov, “I might wear black four years straight.”
