The "Rockefeller" vocal that repeats throughout the song is also a sample, and it was found! The vocal sample comes from a Jay-Z song. Here's a breakdown video from the Sample Hunting TH-cam Channel. Found by bistro th-cam.com/video/1guShlnbB0Q/w-d-xo.html
If dance music absolutely had to have a _"best dance track ever"_ nominated, it has to be this one. The reason being it crosses so many genres efffortlessly; drum & bass, guitar-based music, Northern Soul, hip hop, it hops between so many different musical styles at the one time. Absolute genius, there will never be another song like it.
This is so interesting to me. Thanks for making this! I loved this song when I was a teen! Edit: I didn't know about the 'I Fought the Law' sample. Neat! (I've seen another video talking about Rockerfeller Skank.)
I agree. The technology he was using is so antiquated by today's standards it's ridiculous. It really is a testament to all the time and hard work the great producers put in back in the day to produce this music that still stands up today.
Awesome recreation as usual!! I also have contributed to the samples of this track because I find the low guitar sample that you can hear at some points of the track originally from Twistin' and Twangin' by Duane Eddy from 1962 that is also on WhoSampled Btw the Join The Gang drum break is definitely used in Rockafeller Skank, I checked some months ago by comparing, the drum loop is pitched up and chopped very well... I would love to see a Gangster Trippin remake for the next FatboySlim recreation ! This is one of my favorites ever, I also did a remake of it some time ago, it was really fun to do :)
Thanks Thomas! Yeah, I ended up focusing a lot of time on some other elements like the cymbal FBS uses on that album, but it ended up not working quite right, so it didn't even make the final cut. Interesting note about the Bowie sample. You probably have a better ear than me, but I'm not hearing it to the point of certainty. It's just such a mashup of different sounds compressed so heavily that I can't be 100% sure. Maybe he's admitted to using the sample somewhere?
Really enjoyed the video Karl! To my ear, the rising pitch after the slowdown sounds like a small piece of the sample is being triggered by an LFO that is being sped up - as the LFO gets faster, it takes on its own audible pitch. Of course that's wouldn't be the only part, because there's still layers and artifacts of the slowed down sample in the mix too, but that's my guess.
Love it! That's a great theory. Not too far from what I was doing there, but automating it like that would be the smart thing to do. Splicing up samples like I demonstrated slows down modern daws to a crawl. I can just imagine what would happen if you tried do that on a system from the 90s.
Wonderful and interesting video, thank you! I find it so fascinating, as a non-musician, how these musical tapestries of all these individual songs get created to make a whole new work of art. I’d love to see one on “Praise You” as well.
Wonderful deconstruction,! Thank you , Karl for this video. Lots of inspiration for music producers. To deeply understand the nature of everything we got to know the roots. I just wonder why this video have so less views. God bless!
Sorry if I missed it, but I haven't seen anyone figure out the voice saying roc-roc-roc-afeller at 14:08 and Norman dodges that one quickly in the video you're probably referencing where he breaks these down himself.
Unfortunately no! I did take some time trying to figure it out. I took part of the stems that were revealed in that interview, slowed it down, reversed it. Just couldn't get a handle of where it might have come from. But like you said, by the way he dodged the question in the interview, it's clearly something that would be recognizable.
Fascinating, thanks! Has anyone been able to ID the 2nd vocal sample that first comes in around :45 and acts almost as a counterpoint to the guitar? It's always driven me a little nuts being unable to decipher the syllables (always sounded like "Rapid slowmoose" to me haha) or figure out the source.
Yeah, I really wanted to figure that one out! I did my best to find it, slowed it down/sped it up, reversed it. There was an interview where you could hear a piece separated but it wasn't enough information to source it unfortunately.
The fact that Fatboy Slim failed to pay the artist responsible for his most important hit... is somewhat made up for by the fact that the royalties paid to other artists on this track added up to 100%, meaning Norman Cook took home nothing either.
I've never heard that before. Do you know this for a fact? Unless you know something that I don't, his record label would have paid the owners of the master recordings to use the main samples (that payout would have amounted to a pittance compared to the amount the track eventually made) or alternately they had a contract written up with a percentage split for the master usage.
Nice work … I could never figure out parts he supposedly sampled from Bowie . You seem have nailed all the parts . Any chance of you sharing this project with me .., Would love hear more Fatboy slim deconstructions . Amazing work as alway dude Thanks
Thanks Ken! You and I both with the Bowie sample. As much as it sounds alright layered over Sliced Tomatoes, I am not at all convinced that the Join the Gang sample is what he used. The amount of drum layering going on in Rockafeller, combined with the downsampling and overall compression, make it almost impossible to distinguish any details. It's almost just noise. And yes, give me a couple days and I will upload the set!
@@KarlBoltzmann thanks 🙏 Yes Norman loved to layer samples . It’s over 20 years and still So many unknown samples in some his big hits . But guess if he spilled beans the sample lawyers would come knocking . Would love you to do fbs-praise you deconstruction , you have a fantastic ear .
@@kenbolger1137 Oh, for sure. There are many samples buried in those tracks that we'll likely never know for clearance reasons. And thanks for the suggestion. I will tackle Praise You in the near future!
Useless trivia, the Housemartins broke up over musical differences in the band. Norman wanted to take them in a dance direction, while lead singer and guitarist Paul Heston wanted to maintain their jangly pop sound. Out of the ashes came 3 amazing artists: Beats International, the Beautiful South, and of course FBS.
More useless trivia, before the Housemartins, he was in the Stomping Pondfrogs. I was in Norman's (real name Quentin) class at school, I was in a mediocre school band too. We shared a drummer called Chris Lang who is a successful screenwriter. FWIW, Keir Starmer was in the same class.
He used AKAI sampler‘s…. That’s how he did the digital stuff C lab pretty much just did the sequences everything else is played as individual slices or hits on a multi sampled instrument program, on the Akai. I think if you had redone this video, and used a hardware sampler from Akai Which could’ve been anywhere from an S 900 to an S 6000 would’ve worked on the S 3000 3200 XL,… Best video ever. I really did n joy it though. …. Its the funk soul, brother
It would be very cool to recreate with the original hardware! My understanding is that he used the S950. Wish I could make that video. Maybe sometime in the future I'll get my hands on a hardware sampler.
4:14 That drum sample comes from the song Mash Up You Know Remix by Aladdin (Drum & Bass). 4:21 And here you can hear another drum sample that comes from the song Groovin' With Mr. Bloe by Wind (Tony Orlando). Fatboy Slim's songs are the best. 😎👍
I was and am working on Paul's Boutique! I wanted to get the Dust Brothers on my channel to talk about the album and go through it with me. Maybe one day.
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The "Rockefeller" vocal that repeats throughout the song is also a sample, and it was found! The vocal sample comes from a Jay-Z song. Here's a breakdown video from the Sample Hunting TH-cam Channel. Found by bistro
th-cam.com/video/1guShlnbB0Q/w-d-xo.html
If dance music absolutely had to have a _"best dance track ever"_ nominated, it has to be this one. The reason being it crosses so many genres efffortlessly; drum & bass, guitar-based music, Northern Soul, hip hop, it hops between so many different musical styles at the one time. Absolute genius, there will never be another song like it.
This used to play in a Fifa game I played as a kid, would spend ages in the menu just to listen to it.
This is so interesting to me. Thanks for making this! I loved this song when I was a teen!
Edit: I didn't know about the 'I Fought the Law' sample. Neat! (I've seen another video talking about Rockerfeller Skank.)
super entertaining and informative. great samples.
Thanks Carrie!
Amazing, as always. Thank you very much for these breakdowns!
Thanks Semyon!
Solid research and awesome recreation! Either most fascinating thing about FBS is how he did all this with “ancient” technology 😂
I agree. The technology he was using is so antiquated by today's standards it's ridiculous. It really is a testament to all the time and hard work the great producers put in back in the day to produce this music that still stands up today.
Awesome recreation as usual!! I also have contributed to the samples of this track because I find the low guitar sample that you can hear at some points of the track originally from Twistin' and Twangin' by Duane Eddy from 1962 that is also on WhoSampled
Btw the Join The Gang drum break is definitely used in Rockafeller Skank, I checked some months ago by comparing, the drum loop is pitched up and chopped very well...
I would love to see a Gangster Trippin remake for the next FatboySlim recreation ! This is one of my favorites ever, I also did a remake of it some time ago, it was really fun to do :)
Thanks Thomas! Yeah, I ended up focusing a lot of time on some other elements like the cymbal FBS uses on that album, but it ended up not working quite right, so it didn't even make the final cut. Interesting note about the Bowie sample. You probably have a better ear than me, but I'm not hearing it to the point of certainty. It's just such a mashup of different sounds compressed so heavily that I can't be 100% sure. Maybe he's admitted to using the sample somewhere?
Really enjoyed the video Karl! To my ear, the rising pitch after the slowdown sounds like a small piece of the sample is being triggered by an LFO that is being sped up - as the LFO gets faster, it takes on its own audible pitch. Of course that's wouldn't be the only part, because there's still layers and artifacts of the slowed down sample in the mix too, but that's my guess.
Love it! That's a great theory. Not too far from what I was doing there, but automating it like that would be the smart thing to do. Splicing up samples like I demonstrated slows down modern daws to a crawl. I can just imagine what would happen if you tried do that on a system from the 90s.
@@KarlBoltzmann It also sounds like he put some flanger or phase shifting of some kind to give it that spaced-out trippy sound
Wonderful and interesting video, thank you! I find it so fascinating, as a non-musician, how these musical tapestries of all these individual songs get created to make a whole new work of art.
I’d love to see one on “Praise You” as well.
Thank You! It's so much fun to recreate these tracks. Praise You is on the list! Should be out in a month or so.
Awesome, underrated channel
Really liked your beastie boys deconstruction video! i would like it if u made more!
I've got some Paul's Boutique deconstructions on the burner. Should be done soon.
Wonderful deconstruction,! Thank you , Karl for this video. Lots of inspiration for music producers. To deeply understand the nature of everything we got to know the roots. I just wonder why this video have so less views. God bless!
Cheers, thanks!
Awesome breakdown, thanks Karl!
Hey, thanks Scott! Long time dude. Hope things are good!
Fatboy is a master of Sampling without a doubt.
And don't forget that Jay-Z sample from 'Who You Wit II' that actually has the 'Rockerfella' vocal sample!
That sample came out a couple of weeks after I made my video.
Great video, Carl. In terms of the slowdown/time-stretching, I believe he used an Akai S950 and not C-Lab Creator.
Cool! Do you have more information about that?
Turns out he used both according to Karl's recent stream! Info from the man himself
Sorry if I missed it, but I haven't seen anyone figure out the voice saying roc-roc-roc-afeller at 14:08 and Norman dodges that one quickly in the video you're probably referencing where he breaks these down himself.
Unfortunately no! I did take some time trying to figure it out. I took part of the stems that were revealed in that interview, slowed it down, reversed it. Just couldn't get a handle of where it might have come from. But like you said, by the way he dodged the question in the interview, it's clearly something that would be recognizable.
@@KarlBoltzmann oh I have some great news for you mr carl. It was found
@@alexmusic9989 Thanks Alex. I did hear that yesterday. Going to check it out in a bit.
Fascinating, thanks! Has anyone been able to ID the 2nd vocal sample that first comes in around :45 and acts almost as a counterpoint to the guitar? It's always driven me a little nuts being unable to decipher the syllables (always sounded like "Rapid slowmoose" to me haha) or figure out the source.
Yeah, I really wanted to figure that one out! I did my best to find it, slowed it down/sped it up, reversed it. There was an interview where you could hear a piece separated but it wasn't enough information to source it unfortunately.
The drum break in the intro has now been identified.
There are a number of samples that have since been found. I should probably make a new video about those.
The fact that Fatboy Slim failed to pay the artist responsible for his most important hit... is somewhat made up for by the fact that the royalties paid to other artists on this track added up to 100%, meaning Norman Cook took home nothing either.
I've never heard that before. Do you know this for a fact? Unless you know something that I don't, his record label would have paid the owners of the master recordings to use the main samples (that payout would have amounted to a pittance compared to the amount the track eventually made) or alternately they had a contract written up with a percentage split for the master usage.
Nice work … I could never figure out parts he supposedly sampled from Bowie .
You seem have nailed all the parts .
Any chance of you sharing this project with me ..,
Would love hear more Fatboy slim deconstructions .
Amazing work as alway dude
Thanks
Thanks Ken! You and I both with the Bowie sample. As much as it sounds alright layered over Sliced Tomatoes, I am not at all convinced that the Join the Gang sample is what he used. The amount of drum layering going on in Rockafeller, combined with the downsampling and overall compression, make it almost impossible to distinguish any details. It's almost just noise.
And yes, give me a couple days and I will upload the set!
@@KarlBoltzmann thanks 🙏
Yes Norman loved to layer samples .
It’s over 20 years and still
So many unknown samples in some his big hits .
But guess if he spilled beans the sample lawyers would come knocking .
Would love you to do fbs-praise you deconstruction , you have a fantastic ear .
@@kenbolger1137 Oh, for sure. There are many samples buried in those tracks that we'll likely never know for clearance reasons. And thanks for the suggestion. I will tackle Praise You in the near future!
This guy also made some amazing deconstructions . th-cam.com/video/QKvWlj5R-Aw/w-d-xo.html
@@KarlBoltzmann HI Karl if you get chance please share upload this abelton project
Useless trivia, the Housemartins broke up over musical differences in the band. Norman wanted to take them in a dance direction, while lead singer and guitarist Paul Heston wanted to maintain their jangly pop sound. Out of the ashes came 3 amazing artists: Beats International, the Beautiful South, and of course FBS.
More useless trivia, before the Housemartins, he was in the Stomping Pondfrogs. I was in Norman's (real name Quentin) class at school, I was in a mediocre school band too. We shared a drummer called Chris Lang who is a successful screenwriter. FWIW, Keir Starmer was in the same class.
Huh, the opening of Soup was also sampled by Dirty Heads in the opening of their track That’s All I Need.
Love for you to do the Norman Cook Brimful of Asha remix
That was a pretty well used mix. I'll check it out and see if it's doable.
He used AKAI sampler‘s…. That’s how he did the digital stuff C lab pretty much just did the sequences everything else is played as individual slices or hits on a multi sampled instrument program, on the Akai.
I think if you had redone this video, and used a hardware sampler from Akai Which could’ve been anywhere from an S 900 to an S 6000 would’ve worked on the S 3000 3200 XL,… Best video ever. I really did n joy it though.
…. Its the funk soul, brother
It would be very cool to recreate with the original hardware! My understanding is that he used the S950. Wish I could make that video. Maybe sometime in the future I'll get my hands on a hardware sampler.
2 S950s.
12:34 whats that?
If you're talking about the vocal sample, it was discovered after I made the video that it was from a Jay-Z record.
@@KarlBoltzmann ah cool I've always wondered if you ever come across the track again send it my way
4:14 That drum sample comes from the song Mash Up You Know Remix by Aladdin (Drum & Bass).
4:21 And here you can hear another drum sample that comes from the song Groovin' With Mr. Bloe by Wind (Tony Orlando).
Fatboy Slim's songs are the best. 😎👍
Heh. You want a challenge? Deconstruct Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, in all of its entirety. XD
I was and am working on Paul's Boutique! I wanted to get the Dust Brothers on my channel to talk about the album and go through it with me. Maybe one day.
Deconstructing? LMAO! if you don't have the akai s950 forget about it
since when was it cool to have zero bass in your voice?
seems right wing :D