Sample Spotting

Scubadevils

Ok, I know it's real anorak like but I do like spotting samples in tracks and love when I stumble across one by chance, especially if it's a track I've known for a long time and then find a sample used.

Last Saturday I was watching Sleeper by Woody Allen and later in the film there is a scene with a robot dog that says 'hello, I'm dags' and then barks - knew it straight away from 'Towers of Dub' by The Orb... a track I've known for years and nice to all of a sudden hear a sample they used from an old film. Great film also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihD3dTVHcoY

The Orb - Towers of Dub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8xqMEOjtlA

Lots more to add but work tomorrow so off to bed.

Edit - just to add, I know The Orb were the kings of sampling and this track alone could probably take a lifetime to identify all of the samples used!

Executive Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTPtTKRH7vo

^ contains a sample in the breakdown from Tarkovsky's "The Holy Mountain", possibly the most messed up film I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoeB82x5yrc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKbWF1jwMhE

Compare the bit at 1:35 onwards in the (absolutely classic) Groove Chronicles tune and then the bit at 48 seconds into the Aaliyah tune... Timbaland paving the way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_NxGbqkqc0

^ some clever anorak managed to figure out what some of the various vocal snippets Burial used in his second album were - pretty good hunting!

Executive Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqhO7hdIihw

^ somewhat dated-sounding German techstepper from the late 90's, complete with sample plundered straight from the Ghost In The Shell soundtrack


A nice trio of tunes showing a nice example of cross-generational samplage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3E9vx5vVck

Billy Cobham - "Heather"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mt3vZHDiM8

Souls Of Mischief - "93 Till Infinity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfFsQFuTbxU

Sabre & Alix Perez - "Solitary Native"

Executive Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbPHbAyRSko

^ one of my all time favourites, played this at 12:00 on New Year's in the Twisted Pepper this year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C84wtN0L1A4

Sample taken from the classic Jamaican gangster film "Rockers"

Executive Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el1y1Ik9y1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO_3kRofYyQ

We could have an entire thread just comprised of tunes that sampled "Bladerunner" - I'd say a good few dozen of them would be classic Dillinja tunes as well! I'm actually drawing a blank here but trust me there's LOADS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arl4MW5NuxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPXI7MOGXNw

Plenty of great tunes sampled "Dune" as well, whether it was Paradox sampling bits of of the dialogue or Dillinja (under his Trinity alias)

Ghostbusters has been pillaged as well -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-w_uRQ4muQ

Bad Company - Hysteria (Hive's Mass Hysteria Mix) (lord knows why there's a picture of Ed Rush & Optical in that video mind you)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csXSivySV2s

Nymfo & Cern - Proton Pack, a pretty serious roller to begin with, somehow made even better due to the judicious addition of a Bill Murray sample.

Executive Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc51ijTSG8U

Dom & Roland "Can't Punish Me" complete with a dirty great David Bowie sample all over the intro!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA

Executive Steve

Here's a good one, only noticed this when I read the book after knowing the tune for years, rented the DVD to make sure of it and sure enough, it's from Catch 22, when Yossarian is being interviewed by an army psychologist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUcz-V_voqg

Actually - the artist name (Use Of Weapons - a Mark Pritchard alias) is a reference to Ian M Banks' sci-fi novel of the same name. There's actually a surprising amount of similar references by other heads but only in track names rather than in the sound of them!

Chris Inperspective & Survival - "The Phlebas Consideration"
Zero T & Bailey - "Wasp Factory"
Bad Company - "Excession"

There's loads more as well! Not sure if being able to spot these is a good look TBH...

Executive Steve

Just noticed I haven't even touched on Reggae samples, Jazz samples, or most relevantly perhaps drum samples!

Suffice to say I have a LOT of records that sample the following breaks, I'll give a drum break's origin and also chuck in an example of each!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZuq57_bYM

The Winstons - Amen Brother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Fni80LmVE

Fracture & Neptune - Colemanism (named "Colemanism" after a mr G Coleman who was the Winstons' drummer at the time!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiqxkdhzi_M

Lyn Collins - "Think" (there's a few different versions of this one actually - James Brown did one too, and there's live and studio versions of this break, all of which can be exploited to different effect by clever producers, and all of which have different names I'm not nerdy enough to keep track of - "bad sister" is one of them anyway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inwa9C-bdjc

Nucleus & Paradox - Think About It (Nucleus and Paradox are always great for putting clues in their track titles about where they got the drums for a tune from! Or sometimes even in the runout etching on the vinyl itself you'll get a clue - "you can always rely on Lionel Ritchie" is a favourite!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-Z6wm6TMQ

Incredible Bongo Band - Apache - now HERE's a story, the Incredible Bongo Band was a one off project gathered together specifically to do a film soundtrack in the 60's, and this song was actually originally written and performed by Cliff Richard's backing band The Shadows. When DJ Kool Herc invented beat-juggling (and hence the absolute foundation of Hip-Hop, breakdancing, the idea of DJ's reworking pieces of musical source material into something new in the course of performance he used two copies of this record, which went on to become one of the most sampled records of all time. Without Cliff Richard in other words, we'd have no Hip Hop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p85MI8tNP1o

Breakage - "The Ninth Hand" possibly my favourite Apache tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfLnqoL-lRs

DENNIS COFFEY - SCORPIO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua1ri5T4IwA

Shy FX - Bambaata (I'd forgotten how bloody huge this tune is, must get in the habit of digging it out again TBH!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdeiYALFVHY

James Brown - Soul Pride (Pts. 1 & 2) - the drumbreak near the end is pure sweetness, one of my personal favourites!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF3lteNosuk

DJ Buz - Slave (Special) -No U Turn records


I'll do a few more tomorrow!

Or maybe I'll back away from the thread for a bit in case someone accuses me of being a little bit of a geek!

jtsuited

fcukin hell. i'm in awe at the burial video.
genius is not a word i use often, but god that guy really does make sampling an artform.

seannash

some real obvious one for ya

Chaka Khan-I know you

Atfc- Bad Habit(and countless others)

Slum Village - Tainted Love

Inland Knights-Slumming it

Arman van Helden-U Dont Know me

Samples Jaydee-Plastic dreams

And Carrie Lucas- Dance with You

The Bucketheads-The Bomb

Chicage Street Players

jtsuited

here's a song that's been sampled twice by two completely different electronic artists.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXH_jh6PXkE

appears at 2:09 in this whopper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZg4FjmnXzg

but quite bizzarely had been sampled by that vegan treehugger a few years back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UYLDE0M6EQ

jonnny68

Sampling has always been an integral part of dance music, im not suggesting every single track have used samples but many have, drum & bass more than anything seems to sample a lot, Hardcore too back in the day used lots of sampling.

seannash

jonnny68 wrote: »

Sampling has always been an integral part of dance music, im not suggesting every single track have used samples but many have, drum & bass more than anything seems to sample a lot, Hardcore too back in the day used lots of sampling.

commonly known statement is commonly known :pac:

JCarey70

seannash wrote: »

some real obvious one for ya

Chaka Khan-I know you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrxAVXhoSjM

Atfc- Bad Habit(and countless others)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwzwZSZXN7Q

Slum Village - Tainted Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_nleAHxrE

Inland Knights-Slumming it

Arman van Helden-U Dont Know me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSpLqmY6K0

Samples Jaydee-Plastic dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRAxij_VrOE

And Carrie Lucas- Dance with You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtMmOrdYW6E

The Bucketheads-The Bomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_JZdMxgNHo

Chicage Street Players

There fixed for you

JCarey70

Can anyone remember the name of the very early 90s techno bleepy track that samples this whole scene? I've been looking for it for donkeys years and have never come across it anywhere. I have the track on a very old Warren K tape but even he doesn't remember the name of it. If anyone can remember it please let me know. Cheers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CdKuLRmg8k

Dirt bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--5FIf8Z6TE

ArmCandyBaby

jtsuited wrote: »

fcukin hell. i'm in awe at the burial video.
genius is not a word i use often, but god that guy really does make sampling an artform.

How did he get the Beyonce sample to sound like it does? Is it just a case of pitch shifting or are there more effects going on? I gave that a quick try but it wasn't sounding right...


EDIT: Nevermind I think he just sampled somebody singing into their computer on youtube.

was.deevey

Bit of a mad one Armin Van Helden ... Nessesary evil, sample from ......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYEL0tWQs7k

Eddie Murphy in Vampire in brooklyn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zc8aiyKHnw

JCarey70

Sample of Frank (Denis Hopper) from David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow) and The Demon in the girl from The Exorcist.

Frank - Blue Velvet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGQua6XfrU

The Hypnotist - Pioneers of the Warped Groove

JCarey70

Had to ul this to Youtube myself. This is just the best, the whole track has samples in it taken from the classic 80s movie The Thing. Showing my age I know

Senking - Thaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJuiYteroag

Scubadevils

Wow, lots of fellow anoraks (I think Steve gets the gold medal though)! :pac:

This one I really love... even more in the fact that the original 12" promo is the only version to contain the sample, the commercial release a year later had it removed as it wasn't cleared by the original artist - which raises another point, how many are actually officially cleared?

Anyway, this is 'The Phoenix' by God Within (Scott Hardkiss) and the sample used is from 'Fire On High' by Electric Light Orchestra. Great memories of this in the Temple of Sound, another anthem of that time, the place used to explode after the build of break beat and the guitar sample kicked in at 5.02. I still need to pick up this gem actually on vinyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvAX6udy_LE

And then of course the track by ELO... another great track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Ufx7SmZ5E

jimi_t2

Very much self-explanatory. Nearly a novelty song, but you can't help but smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeWHSJu_KrM

Scubadevils

^ Sh1t I thought they gave up all that sampling of 70s/80s cartoons a long time ago! Even using the noise of the clangers... I did smile though!

Here's another obvious one used in a great track. Sample taken from Carlito's Way. Sample hits at 2.08 and then the track really kicks in.

That Kid Chris - Big Time (Carlito's Dream)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax9Gn4mRdxY

jimi_t2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDu7yYHxZr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qdp4hBYaa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiP4BZ-1mM4

jimi_t2

Oh, and the wierdest sample I've heard in absolute years... Well, used in the wierdest context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbwdX8B9l4Y

Jump to about 2:15

c_o_ck p_i_ss chillage

Here you all go. Knock yourselves out :-)

http://www.whosampled.com/

Stab*City

Discovered this one a while back pretty obvious..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCoCTkC0oL0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR599xMFCTA

Stab*City

Another the vocal was reversed, stretched and pitched to get the end result..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8gdj2ir298

One of the most sampled tracks out there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnYV0WFpiCg