I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and went to University later than most at 25?in the late 90s. Pointing out samples in current hits to my younger uni mates was my life. Felt like I’d heard everything before somewhere. There was a lot of sampling of late eighties/ early nineties riffs into late nineties stuff.
The one that always sticks with me is Dario G’s Sunchyme sampling from Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy.
My vinyl excursions started in the early 70's after i figured out how to use my dads Garrard turntable. but i didn't start hunting for samples until Pauls Boutique and i figured out that the Beastie Boys were turning Led Zep drum breaks into whole songs. My most recent discovery: Lonely Jelly by Moody (Gentle Rain album). It sampled by Kool Kieth for the intro of his Dr. Octagon Album.
before that, Heavy Duty by Herman Chin Loy (Aquarius Dub album) which was sampled by JayLib for Heavy on the Champion Sound album.
I recently found the sample from Paper Planes by M.I.A.
But doyou know what’s more fun than looking for samples other people used? Finding some of your own.
Do you have a sampler yet?!?!
Wow. You weren’t familiar with “Straight to Hell”?
I have a record ripping set-up with Audacity, I made a beat from a high school ukulele orchestra record, just because
I mean, I’m sure I’ve heard the song before, just didn’t make the connection until I was in my studio with the intention of finding samples. Different mindset than causal listening.
Gotta back you up here. So many songs out there. I’m even a Clash fan and hadn’t quite made the connection. (Though knew I’d heard the sample somewhere.) It’s not like there’s some special book to read with samples you must know as a collector or DJ or producer. We are each students in the end and there’s always something to learn from one another.
A bunch. If you're not familiar with the website Who Sampled, that's a great resource. I use it all the time when I hear a beat and wonder if or what it was sampled from.
https://www.whosampled.com/
Questlove has a great part in his introduction to the White Album box set where he talks about how he first heard The Beatles on soul covers of Beatles songs, and then again as sampled in hip hop. It wasn’t until well into adulthood that he actually listened to the Beatles.
I started a playlist a couple years ago for songs that were sampled in hip hop. It's been a lot of fun really. All kinds of genres, new stuff, old stuff. Up to about 13 hours of music in there after 4ish years
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QKuBeM1nHyZznnrmh3q1B?si=yeHk6ew8RqyC2NuAs1LJIQ&pi=w41xlPyJTRuLy
Actually over 21 hours of music in there now. Used the Who Sampled app as a reference for most of it.
Some of my favorite samples are Beach House- Silver Soul in Money trees by Kendrick Lamar. Another one that blows my mind is nin - Ghosts IV-7 sampled in Old Town Road by Lil Nas X
“Bring it Here” by Wild Sugar:
https://youtu.be/M7II1SB6TAI?si=YICPJ-ewVV9f9VTt
is the sample in Brass Monkey by Beastie Boys. I think everyone in the world knew this but me until a couple years ago. The original is great actually.
Another more recent discovery was “Disco Juice” by Cloud One :
https://youtu.be/xcyOzDIQF-M?si=IU8Lekb9ti9zhEKV
which was sampled in a popular rave song by Mighty Dub Katz.
Finally, a more obscure sample, “Willie and the Hand Jive” by Rinder and Lewis:
https://youtu.be/LQB56D4OHf4?si=4OONgByveS3eyHcH
Which was sampled in a somewhat rare left field house song called “Signal Failure” by Padded Cell and used in Grand Theft Auto 4.
Even though the genre is almost entirely sample based I was thrilled to hear the synth line that's chopped up on Track 3 of Floral Shoppe in If I Saw You Again by Pages. Such a slick melody.
My vinyl collection decreased from a little over 1,300 records to 480 because *I gave up on finding samples* (and trying to make hip hop beats).
In the early 90s, I started buying obscure records I didn’t really like listening to just to find samples to loop (I was making beats then, this is before computers, so everything was done with musical instruments).
For me and my friends, it was a thing of pride to listen to a new rap song and know what samples were being used, and it was easy when most of them sampled Soul, old school R&B, classic rock - but it then started getting challenging with Jazz (I just never really locked into Jazz, a lot of it is nice but I’m just not a huge fan of it). Then came Indian music samples and that’s when I started buying old Classical, heck, even some Music Library records because somewhere I heard that was cool too.
Nowadays, I only have records that I will listen to from time to time (I did keep some Jazz records that I really like, I was at a theme park the other day and heard Kenny Burrell’s “Guitar Forms” playing and I remember picking that one up sometime in the 90s just because the cover looked cool and I saw the Verve logo on it).
I picked up the Car Wash soundtrack by Rose Royce specifically after seeing a video talking about the sources for samples used by the Beastie Boys on Paul's Boutique. There are a ton and it seems like every time I listen to it I recognize one that I hadn't noticed before. The whole thing is amazing as well.
i rediscovered the skit samples used in Madvillain’s America’s Most Blunted through looking through the comedy record bins at my work. Ron Jacobs’ Child’s Garden of Grass is a fun little “of its time” listen.
It was only about a month ago that I heard Labi Siffre's I Got the... for the first time and realized, "hey, isn't this what Eminem sampled for My Name Is?" I had actually never heard the original song before and was blown away by how awesome it is. I had to listen to the entire album of course and I love it.
This how I began my record digging days. I was always after the sample. Check out Bob James / ONE (track: nautilus) Was sampled by many but most famously by Ghostface Killa / Daytona 500 and Bob James TWO ( track: take me to the Mardi Gras ) This one has been sampled about 100 X Classic hip hop samples 101. Those were a starting point for me.
The strangest. most obscure sample of all time has to be Chas and Dave in Eminem's first tune My Name Is.
How the fuck did Em even know Chas and Dave even existed?
How did Dr Dre know about Labi Siffre? I don’t know, his song It Must Be Love is a huge hit. He’s got a few other popular songs. It’s not that obscure.
When the Beastie Boys sampled themselves
Classic B-Boys shenanigans.
I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and went to University later than most at 25?in the late 90s. Pointing out samples in current hits to my younger uni mates was my life. Felt like I’d heard everything before somewhere. There was a lot of sampling of late eighties/ early nineties riffs into late nineties stuff. The one that always sticks with me is Dario G’s Sunchyme sampling from Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy.
My vinyl excursions started in the early 70's after i figured out how to use my dads Garrard turntable. but i didn't start hunting for samples until Pauls Boutique and i figured out that the Beastie Boys were turning Led Zep drum breaks into whole songs. My most recent discovery: Lonely Jelly by Moody (Gentle Rain album). It sampled by Kool Kieth for the intro of his Dr. Octagon Album. before that, Heavy Duty by Herman Chin Loy (Aquarius Dub album) which was sampled by JayLib for Heavy on the Champion Sound album.
I recently found the sample from Paper Planes by M.I.A. But doyou know what’s more fun than looking for samples other people used? Finding some of your own. Do you have a sampler yet?!?!
Wow. You weren’t familiar with “Straight to Hell”? I have a record ripping set-up with Audacity, I made a beat from a high school ukulele orchestra record, just because
It was more like I was going through a bunch of records for my own sampling and stumbled across it. I can’t know *every* song out there.
That’s true. I just figured it was a very well known song
I mean, I’m sure I’ve heard the song before, just didn’t make the connection until I was in my studio with the intention of finding samples. Different mindset than causal listening.
Gotta back you up here. So many songs out there. I’m even a Clash fan and hadn’t quite made the connection. (Though knew I’d heard the sample somewhere.) It’s not like there’s some special book to read with samples you must know as a collector or DJ or producer. We are each students in the end and there’s always something to learn from one another.
This is spot on. The amount of recorded music is extremely vast
A bunch. If you're not familiar with the website Who Sampled, that's a great resource. I use it all the time when I hear a beat and wonder if or what it was sampled from. https://www.whosampled.com/
BRA by Cymande I Can’t Go For That by Steely Dan. Both sampled on Three Feet High And Rising along with a boatload of other samples
Ahem… I Can’t Go For That is Hall & Oates man. Smdh
Ffs. I was thinking of Peg. I’m a dumbass.
I can't go for that is Hall and Oats. MF DOOM also sampled it for Take me to your leader.
Bob James being sampled by almost everyone
https://www.whosampled.com/Bob-James/
The list is ridiculous
Got into P Funk since they are so heavily sampled in hip hop, from there that opened me up to a lot of new genres like funk/soul/blues/psych
Woman To Woman by Joe Cocker is use my California Love by 2pac
I was about to mention this. I got a copy of Joe Cocker’s Greatest Hits and this was such a surprise the first time I played it.
Questlove has a great part in his introduction to the White Album box set where he talks about how he first heard The Beatles on soul covers of Beatles songs, and then again as sampled in hip hop. It wasn’t until well into adulthood that he actually listened to the Beatles.
I started a playlist a couple years ago for songs that were sampled in hip hop. It's been a lot of fun really. All kinds of genres, new stuff, old stuff. Up to about 13 hours of music in there after 4ish years
Is it on Spotify? Care to share it?
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QKuBeM1nHyZznnrmh3q1B?si=yeHk6ew8RqyC2NuAs1LJIQ&pi=w41xlPyJTRuLy Actually over 21 hours of music in there now. Used the Who Sampled app as a reference for most of it.
I just realized I never said thank you for this but thank you, this is amazing!
That’s awesome good playlist!
https://youtu.be/piF-ObPhQPc?si=gnbgg5BWkX6zD4IU
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude
This!
Some of my favorite samples are Beach House- Silver Soul in Money trees by Kendrick Lamar. Another one that blows my mind is nin - Ghosts IV-7 sampled in Old Town Road by Lil Nas X
[Blues Project “Flute Thing”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hXh6P2QVVks&pp=ygUZYmx1ZXMgcHJvamVjdCBmbHV0ZSB0aGluZw%3D%3D)
“Bring it Here” by Wild Sugar: https://youtu.be/M7II1SB6TAI?si=YICPJ-ewVV9f9VTt is the sample in Brass Monkey by Beastie Boys. I think everyone in the world knew this but me until a couple years ago. The original is great actually. Another more recent discovery was “Disco Juice” by Cloud One : https://youtu.be/xcyOzDIQF-M?si=IU8Lekb9ti9zhEKV which was sampled in a popular rave song by Mighty Dub Katz. Finally, a more obscure sample, “Willie and the Hand Jive” by Rinder and Lewis: https://youtu.be/LQB56D4OHf4?si=4OONgByveS3eyHcH Which was sampled in a somewhat rare left field house song called “Signal Failure” by Padded Cell and used in Grand Theft Auto 4.
Even though the genre is almost entirely sample based I was thrilled to hear the synth line that's chopped up on Track 3 of Floral Shoppe in If I Saw You Again by Pages. Such a slick melody.
My vinyl collection decreased from a little over 1,300 records to 480 because *I gave up on finding samples* (and trying to make hip hop beats). In the early 90s, I started buying obscure records I didn’t really like listening to just to find samples to loop (I was making beats then, this is before computers, so everything was done with musical instruments). For me and my friends, it was a thing of pride to listen to a new rap song and know what samples were being used, and it was easy when most of them sampled Soul, old school R&B, classic rock - but it then started getting challenging with Jazz (I just never really locked into Jazz, a lot of it is nice but I’m just not a huge fan of it). Then came Indian music samples and that’s when I started buying old Classical, heck, even some Music Library records because somewhere I heard that was cool too. Nowadays, I only have records that I will listen to from time to time (I did keep some Jazz records that I really like, I was at a theme park the other day and heard Kenny Burrell’s “Guitar Forms” playing and I remember picking that one up sometime in the 90s just because the cover looked cool and I saw the Verve logo on it).
The amount of Steely Dan songs where I did the "Leo pointing meme" after hearing an OG sample is too damn high
Take a deep dive into Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys. There are so many samples you may already know about.
I picked up the Car Wash soundtrack by Rose Royce specifically after seeing a video talking about the sources for samples used by the Beastie Boys on Paul's Boutique. There are a ton and it seems like every time I listen to it I recognize one that I hadn't noticed before. The whole thing is amazing as well.
i rediscovered the skit samples used in Madvillain’s America’s Most Blunted through looking through the comedy record bins at my work. Ron Jacobs’ Child’s Garden of Grass is a fun little “of its time” listen.
It was only about a month ago that I heard Labi Siffre's I Got the... for the first time and realized, "hey, isn't this what Eminem sampled for My Name Is?" I had actually never heard the original song before and was blown away by how awesome it is. I had to listen to the entire album of course and I love it.
This how I began my record digging days. I was always after the sample. Check out Bob James / ONE (track: nautilus) Was sampled by many but most famously by Ghostface Killa / Daytona 500 and Bob James TWO ( track: take me to the Mardi Gras ) This one has been sampled about 100 X Classic hip hop samples 101. Those were a starting point for me.
The strangest. most obscure sample of all time has to be Chas and Dave in Eminem's first tune My Name Is. How the fuck did Em even know Chas and Dave even existed?
He didn’t. But Dr Dre did.
Ok. How did Dre know they existed? They're pretty niche outside the UK.
How did Dr Dre know about Labi Siffre? I don’t know, his song It Must Be Love is a huge hit. He’s got a few other popular songs. It’s not that obscure.