samples

Sampledelica

30/01/2025 by salwarpe 83 Comments

One of the pleasures I get from music is a well-placed sample in a song. On the 80s soundrack thread, I posted Primal Scream did this with a quote from Paris, Texas at the end of their woozy, saxy ‘I’m Comin’ Down’ (they also sampled plenty for their ‘Vanishing Point’ album). fentonsteve added a Paul McGann-quoting Ride track.

Some of my favourites used to do this regularly – JAMMs/KLF, Chumbawamba, PWEI, BAD. Below I’ll post a track from one of my favourite sampledelic albums – Heart of Darkness by Hoodlum Priest, which helps itself generously to Bladerunner, Dune and Robocop quotes.

There’s probably plenty of this sort of thing elsewhere (Negativland rings a bell), not least in hiphop.

Any favourites you want to share?

I’m thinking mainly of quotes not from other music sources, but I can’t hold you back if that’s where you want to go. Points removed for posting ‘Set Adrift on Memory Bliss’…

The Joy Of A Newly Discovered Sample!

26/11/2017 by ganglesprocket 6 Comments

One of the quiet joys of music is when you find the source of a sample, and I have just stumbled across this one. Getting Nasty by Ike Turner, as used in Concrete Schoolyard by Jurassic 5. This has made me extremely happy indeed.

Songs built around samples

28/03/2017 by moseleymoles 35 Comments

This came up in the car today and I’d forgotten how it’s built around one monster sample. As is the first one in the comments. So let’s do a ‘songs from samples’ list please. Only two rules: One sample per song, the more looped the better – no MARRS or Bomb the Bass sample blizzards please. Mashups is a different thing (we can do those too – pretend its still 2010 – this is the sampladelic list).

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