How do producers get away with this?

[Grifff]

Why is it that you can hear a song that is very much identical to a pre-existing song?

For example, I recently heard the song Kendo, by Nari and Milani - that sounds pretty much identical to Higher State of Consciousness (Tweeking Acid remix), by Josh Wink

Similar to Napoli by Whelan and Di Scala, which sounds very similar to Apperception by Manjaro

Do the original producers give the new producers permission to do a 'cover'?

[Xonetacular]

Why is it that you can hear a song that is very much identical to a pre-existing song?

For example, I recently heard the song Kendo, by Nari and Milani - that sounds pretty much identical to Higher State of Consciousness (Tweeking Acid remix), by Josh Wink

Parts sounds kind of similar but I would hardly call them almost identical

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vl9cIwNUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMAiI5szoI

With the millions of songs released over the years and people building on similar palettes of synths, sounds and styles you're inevitably going to get stuff that sounds kind of similar- and sometimes it's something genre defining that gets done over and over.

People build on things and I wouldn't be surprised if the latter artist never heard the first song, that acid synth sound has been done many times before and has entered into the the collective electronic music unconscious. I'm pretty sure I've never heard either of those songs before and I've heard that sound. Or who knows maybe I have heard them before and just didn't know where.... It's pretty hard to make a truly original sound.

[Steve Zorilow]

You can also use 4 secondes of a 60's track and looks cool in 2011...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmexOmLyuVU
and then Pitbull will remix it and so on and so forth...

[losxc451]

You can also use 4 secondes of a 60's track and looks cool in 2011...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmexOmLyuVU
and then Pitbull will remix it and so on and so forth...

well I think that track was sampled/remixed so much because avicii sampled it and then all of the sudden everyone went crazy about it

Totally agree that alot of producers tracks sound similar, past the point that it cant even be considered sampling because the whole track sounds pretty much the same and you can barely tell the difference between the two

[Jumanji]

You can also use 4 secondes of a 60's track and looks cool in 2011...

Myself personally, I think the 60s & 70s are over done. I'd rather hear samples from the 40s & earlier or the 80s & later.

[Machete]

http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/

[U-31]

Pah 2011? You Young 'uns..

Try 91

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TzWJNC0QrQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PM_htuyDUM

[Conall]

All producers and musicians are influenced by their surroundings, it's totally believable that some producers accidently recreate similar tracks to songs they've heard at some point or other where a remnant of that track has stuck around in their subconscious.

[U-31]

Myself personally, I think the 60s & 70s are over done. I'd rather hear samples from the 40s & earlier or the 80s & later.

Will the 50's do ya?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhHVW-fgQy4

Its all out there ya just got to know what to look for

[smiTTTen]

There needs to be more inspiration drawn from this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc