NWA: "Fuck the Police!" Public Enemy: "Yeah, Fight the Power!" Powerpuff Girls: "Yeah, why do we always have to stop an evil monkey from destroying the city? That's *their* job."
the entirety of Ghosts I-IV by NIN is part of a Creative Commons licence to be used by other artists so it's always nice to see an artist make a big song with one of those tracks
I actually love Ghosts V, and noticed that Reznor gave it away for free and was wondering this exact thing about licensing of that music so I'm glad you brought it up
@@Freakinawesome333 NIN have pulled from a few unlikely sample sources themselves funnily enough, one of their songs includes a snippet from a TH-cam video called "Bioshock Halloween"
To be fair, the entirety of Ghosts I-IV was released under a Creative Commons open license with the express intent to allow its use in other works. So Lil Nas X sampling from it is about as fair game as you can get. Heck, even Trent Reznor himself reused parts of Ghosts to create the Academy Award-winning soundtrack for The Social Network.
@@HenritheHorse ah yes homophobia and musical elitism. you sir have brought the level of discourse up several notches single-handedly. great job friend!
@@caseyhamm4292 Why do you defend a devil worshipping degeneracy and propaganda? Thanks, I thought you wouldn't have the guts to say it. Also I'm fine with normal gay people that just live their lives.
Make a video with that music and try to monetize it on youtube, see what happens. 😆 The irony is you'd probably get the copyright strike from little Nas (or whatever his stupid name is) instead of Trent Reznor. Most CC licenses require giving credit as well, which Little Nas did not, he wanted to pass it off as his own because he's a talentless hack. Also, what does Trent Reznor using HIS OWN music for different projects have to do with anything?🤔
Chas n Dave's careers were just extraordinary. Played as touring backing bands and studio musicians for some of the biggest names in rock n roll before taking the pub rock and Tottenham Hotspur cup final songs path. I loved and deeply miss them.
I went to Margate this week and my girlfriend reminded of of their track “Margate” what a tune! Then I started listening to things like Rabbit and Ain’t no pleasing you. Absolute legends.
I also realise "Breathe" by Sean Paul featuring Blu Cantrell also sampled "What's the Difference" by Dr. Dre as well as sampling Charles Aznavour's 1966 song "Parce Que Tu Crois".
One of the most impressive feats of sampling I know of is “Face to Face” by Daft Punk and Todd Edwards. God knows how many songs were incorporated into it; I’ve seen a breakdown that showed 19 different samples, but there could be more. Great song, too.
Yeah, well a lot of other people used sampling, but the only mandatory artist on a sampling video is Fatboy Slim... No one achieved more with the technique than him. He has multiple full albums only made with sampling.
If you want a sampling masterclass, look at the Avalanches first LP. Made entirely of samples and probably numbers between 900 and 2500. There's also an album by Exile called Radio which is made entirely of samples from the Radio.
'I Got The' Labi Siffre song is an awsome musical journey with lots of different parts. Recomended for a listen (the Chaz and Dave connection just makes it better)
@@taliesinllanfair4338 Madness version of 'It must be love' is one of the best covers of all time. When I heard the original song It made Madness' version even more impressive.
I agree with the idea. Chucking samples of older songs into new ones isn't necessarily a lack of creativity, but finding a new way to use an existing thing: Innovation. And I always love hearing an older song for the first time and going, "Oh my god, that's from such and such a song!" Or, in reverse, finding out that a song has a sample in it and then seeking out said old song. It's no different to rehashing old songs into new media (such as movies or video games), there's no reason to deny people of the past, just because they weren't there at the time
The Fugees' Ready or Not (a huge hit from 1998) uses a sped-down sample from Enya's Boadicea (a song with hummed vocals). I was very much surprised when I found that out.
One song that always slips under the radar is Steal My Sunshine by Len, the whole song is based on a small snippet of More More More by Andrea True Connection, 2.20 into the song if anyone's interested.
I work in a grocery store. More More More comes up often on the muzak. I remember the first time I heard it, I noticed that bit and it was so jarring because it really felt like the song had suddenly turned into Steal My Sunshine, and then went back to More More More a few bars later. It's a real mindf*** heh
Over the years I have created a "Salute the Sample" Playlist. It is full of all the original recordings that were sampled to create a new form or expression. This help add a couple of new tracks to the playlist. It's very eclectic but it somehow works as something to put on and listen to. Here's about 1/3 of the list. Amen Brother The Winstons I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) Michael McDonald Woman To Woman Joe Cocker Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love) The Delfonics Sho' Nuff Sly, Slick & Wicked Apache Incredible Bongo Band I've Got a Woman Ray Charles I Got The... (2006 Remaster) Labi Siffre Upside Down Diana Ross Grandma's Hands Bill Withers Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2 The Isley Brothers The Edge David McCallum Music: A Bit More Of Me Lowdown Boz Scaggs I'm Coming Out Diana Ross Take Yo' Praise Camille Yarbrough Between the Sheets The Isley Brothers Got To Give It Up Marvin Gaye Think (About It) Lyn Collins Parce que tu crois Charles Aznavour Funky Drummer James Brown
Quality? It is the most annoying song ever created. The same simple beat without a single actual instrument and the same line over and over and over and over and over and over and over......and over. You hear 30 seconds, you heard the whole song.
@@Jabber-ig3iw going out of your way to find old obscure tracks/demos, single out instruments or vocals, finding a way to stitch several of them together in a seamless way, and creating an entirely new song out of it arguably takes more effort than just making something new. it's like solving a jigsaw puzzle using pieces from different ones and still ending up with a coherent picture
I tend to believe that the difference between good sampling and bad sampling is how lazy they were with it. For the good stuff, either new elements are grafted on top, like a lot of the hip-hop and rap songs, or it's 'chopp'd and screwed' like the Fatboy Slim example, samples tweaked to the point where they are unique in of themselves. And we wouldn't have mashups without it. Lazy sampling changes basically nothing. But it's really rare.
Hands down the best samplers of our time is Daft Punk. They made songs that sounded nothing like the original from only sampling a single song. Their song Face to Face has 19 different samples from several different artists and songs, almost all of them only 1 second or less, arranged in a way that I can only describe as the funky predecessor to dubstep (I'm pretty certain Skrillex got a large amount of inspiration from Daft Punk).
This is pretty much what The Prodigy did, at least for their older stuff. There's a great youtube video by a dude named Jim Pavloff, where he remakes Smack My Bitch Up from original samples. It's crazy how creative the process is.
While I'd definitely put Daft Punk (or The Prodigy) up there, there are definitely others that would be in the same stratosphere, e.g. The Avalanches or DJ Shadow.
David McCallum - The edge which the same album you mentioned chronic 2001 uses his sample on the song the next episode by Dr. Dre. He's infamous for going the crates of old songs and turning them into hip hop hits because no one can tell.
Glad you said it as a native speaker. I learnt French years ago, and I really had to bend my ears on that one. Ah well, David can't be perfect at everything...
To be fair, only the "que" was really off to my ear. In French, never pronounce the "u" in a "qu" syllable. So you pronounce only the "k" part of the "qu" and something close to "uh" for the final "e".
Great breakdown. There's just one point of contention, and that's that the recording artist usually isnt the producer that made/mixed/sampled the beats.
Man this video made me re-evaluate my opinions on some of the pop songs I hear “ripping off” older songs. Would love to see a few of Dua Lipa’s songs in some of your future comparison videos, since I feel like every second song she puts out sounds like something else I’ve heard before.
DJ Shadow’s album “Endtroducing” was the first album created entirely out of samples. He spent MONTHS scouring record shops and what not collecting a massive number of records, then pulled out what he wanted, plus some samples from a few films as well. I think Fat Boy Slim did something similar.
Haha, I never realized Futurama used the Amen Break too. Finding that Praise You piano sample was probably some incredible coincidence, but any musician who had heard it would've said "I gotta make a song out of that".
sampling can also be found in dance/electronic music (mainly the underground/indie dance scene from the UK during the late 80s to 90s) Art Of Noise, RSW & Bomb The Bass, The KLF, The Orb, Orbital, 808 State, FSOL, & few other techno artist/groups that incorporates sampling techniques are pretty good examples. they have some good & familiar or interesting samples in their tunes
Also “Theme From S-Express” by S-Express in 1988. I know one of the samples as it’s from “If It’s Love You’re After” by Rose Royce, but I would love to know the others.
The fact that Futurama sampled the same beat as NWA's Straight Outta Compton blows my mind. Also the 90's hit Playas Club by Rappin 4Tay used a sample of Judy Clay and William Bell's 1968 hit "Private Number". Also a group called Nightmares on Wax sampled this song for You Wish. There are others that sampled Private Number.
I still think Portishead is the best: writing and recording lounge music and having it pressed to vinyl so they could sample/scratch it into their music, even scratching their own name into one track 🤣
The list of samples that have been lifted from Lavi Siffre's "I Got The..." would fill a video on their own. I think he's credited on at least 30 songs.
Sampling, as you said, if done cleverly, is not just, but another way of composing. Transferring old sound contents into a new context, and many times new background sounds, lift these good old classics into a new living. This also transfers and credits a lot of old music. Time passes by, and cultures change. Life is movement, duration is death.
Notorious B.I.G.'s sample of Herb Alpert's "Rise" is masterful. The original song has a killer bassline and really cool effects on guitar, and Biggy Smalls had a blast with them :)
As someone who started experimenting with this in the early 1980's with tape decks, this is a wonderful foray into creative music. Thanks for the insight.
What Fatboy Slim did was to genuinely create new music from obscure samples. Puff Daddy's Police sample is a guy singing while his stereo plays a song.
That Parce Que Tu Crois sample also reminds me of the orchestral backing of Indila's Derniere Danse, which also made it to popular radio around the world a decade ago or so, but never picked up on it in What's The Difference.
Two samples that are often heard but rarely mentioned are 'UFO' by ESG and 'Close (To The Edge)' by The Art Of Noise. Weirdly enough both were cuts from fun improvised sessions, the former being a random jam the group made when they had a couple of minutes left of studio time and the latter from when one of the members was asked to make random shouts into a mic for sampling in later tracks (found more prevalent in their song 'Beatbox').
Hip-hop is filled with so many great samples. One of my favorite ones has to be a sample from Bernard Wright - Spinnin'. Skee-Lo took a sample from it for his track I Wish. Btw, Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim is an absolute genius with all the samples he has used to create his records.
08:57. And this is why Norman Cook is a certified musical genius. Also, to come from the pop group “The House Martins” and then morph into “Beats International” and then to be a world renowned Dance Music artist and incredible DJ..Incredible.
Don't forget Pizzaman and Freak Power... he's been through many guises. He's also responsible for quite a few remixes, like the #1 remix of Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha"
Loved this one David! The 'sampling is cheating' argument is so lazy, sampling can unlock so much inspiration. I like to find a good sample and then layer my own instruments on top of it, using it as the 'foundation' - it's lots of fun, highly recommend
If the sample remains the most iconic part of a new song, just like in most examples in this video, it IS lazy. For me it's disheartening to realize that the musician I admired for some piece of music isn't actually the one deserving the credits. Creative sampling is art, looping some existing catchy part is just copy-pasting.
Dre had the beat sampled before meeting Em, when they finally met he said "I have this beat I'd like you to hear", as soon as Em heard it he started rapping to it "My name is, my name is", Dre then stopped him, got him in the mic booth and My name is was recorded just like that. The video showing them first meeting and Dre putting on the beat is on here (YT).
¡Thank you for introducing me to Labi Siffre! I love your dives into different music not just for your content itself but also for the new songs I discover. And just for the record, I've heard the entire JBL album, but it was years ago and I don't remember much about it.
Bit different back then, it was easier to use a sample because it was already there and mastered. If you got a drummer in it would take more time to record and master the drum loop, and more money would have had to be spent.
The Parce Que Tu Crois was also (and in my mind it’s the first song that springs up) sampled on Blu Cantrell hit Breathe lol also on the pint of Amen brother REALLY NOT SURE but I’m getting two songs to mind, right here right now by the Fatboy slim (Norman Cook) but also weirdly Brimful of Asha by Corner Shop but maybe it was the Norman cook remix I dunno… just popped into my head. Very interesting video though.
@@mark314158 it’s always so hard to explain how French words are pronounced when typing. Even the explanation I gave above is unsatisfactory. I could write “paʁs kə ty kʁwa” but the vast majority of people won’t have any idea how to pronounce that. It doesn’t help that que, tu, and crois all have sounds that don’t exist in English.
Lots of artists are. Theres some notable exceptions but a lot of artists have a deep love of music and the way it reaches everyone that listens to it. They understand its meant to be shared.
My favorite sample whenever i hear is Herb Alpert - Rise (1979) which has a sound that has been sampled by Biggie in Hypnotize and also other artists through the years.
I'd love to see more videos delving into the topic of sampling, because its such a broad and in my opinion important topic to cover, especially if one was to look into the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique.
well yeah pretty much. all music is derivative. It is all made from the same base building blocks and stuff inspires each other and styles and genres and trends become cyclical.
"Praise You" is an original combination of elements, certainly. Elsewhere there's a video on court cases around musical copying, where one side was trying to suggest the chord sequence was novel and so somehow protected... except JS Bach used it a little earlier.
I was listening to Poe, and I was reminded of how hers song Wild includes a sample from her song Hello. That made me wonder what other cases there are of this "self sampling". I can't think of any offhand, but I can think some examples of songs that reference another song by the same musician or band in other ways. Like how the movie version of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall references the lyrics of Money.
The 1996 song “6 Underground” by The Sneaker Pimps samples the horns and harp from John Barry’s “Golden Girl” from the soundtrack to the James Bond movie Goldfinger.
This just serves to reinforce my opinion that the vast majority of these so-called "artists" are incapable of creating anything 100% on their own. I find that I have infinitely more respect for the artists who originally created (you know, actually thought up, and PLAYED) the hooks and drum beats that were cool enough to get used and abused by others.
Love this. My fave example will always be the roger Sanches and toto one. Never knew it was a cover and introduced me to the original which is now one of my favourite songs of all time.
Some great samples here, I hope you do a speacial vid on samplers who make an entire song from samples...The Avalanches are an awesome example of this.
That Fatboy Slim JBL Sessions sample is absolutely killer, what an insane and unique session recording and sample.
Yes! I always loved the talking in the background of this sample. It gives so much character into the melody and the song.
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The piano part was not by JBL, its a piano part from the creedance Clearwater revivals song, born on the bayou
@@AnAlcoholicAnalysis-iy5ovWrong. You can literally hear the sample in this video from the JBL tape. There is no piano part in Born on the Bayou 😂
@@JB-eu1kd no, it is there.
The whiplash of going from NWA and Public Enemy to Ed Sheeran and the Powerpuff Girls is hilarious!
Straight outta the city of Townsville!
NWA: "Fuck the Police!"
Public Enemy: "Yeah, Fight the Power!"
Powerpuff Girls: "Yeah, why do we always have to stop an evil monkey from destroying the city? That's *their* job."
As someone who listens to some of everything, it's the rest that underwhelmed me
Funny enough I'd never heard any of those songs before and, from the short excerpts presented, my favourite was the powderpuff girls.
Powerpuff girls go hard asf fym
the entirety of Ghosts I-IV by NIN is part of a Creative Commons licence to be used by other artists so it's always nice to see an artist make a big song with one of those tracks
I didn’t know that! That’s really cool!
@@DavidBennettPiano I bet we'll see a few more Nine Inch Nails examples in future videos after hearing that 😂
I actually love Ghosts V, and noticed that Reznor gave it away for free and was wondering this exact thing about licensing of that music so I'm glad you brought it up
@@Freakinawesome333 NIN have pulled from a few unlikely sample sources themselves funnily enough, one of their songs includes a snippet from a TH-cam video called "Bioshock Halloween"
Didn't realize it's only Ghosts I-IV that's under CC... I'll have to listen to those again
To be fair, the entirety of Ghosts I-IV was released under a Creative Commons open license with the express intent to allow its use in other works. So Lil Nas X sampling from it is about as fair game as you can get. Heck, even Trent Reznor himself reused parts of Ghosts to create the Academy Award-winning soundtrack for The Social Network.
It was released under the terms that if any music was used commercially, royalties would be involved
I think Lil gay found the beat that someone else made from the sample on a site.
@@HenritheHorse ah yes homophobia and musical elitism. you sir have brought the level of discourse up several notches single-handedly. great job friend!
@@caseyhamm4292 Why do you defend a devil worshipping degeneracy and propaganda? Thanks, I thought you wouldn't have the guts to say it. Also I'm fine with normal gay people that just live their lives.
Make a video with that music and try to monetize it on youtube, see what happens. 😆 The irony is you'd probably get the copyright strike from little Nas (or whatever his stupid name is) instead of Trent Reznor. Most CC licenses require giving credit as well, which Little Nas did not, he wanted to pass it off as his own because he's a talentless hack. Also, what does Trent Reznor using HIS OWN music for different projects have to do with anything?🤔
Chas n Dave's careers were just extraordinary. Played as touring backing bands and studio musicians for some of the biggest names in rock n roll before taking the pub rock and Tottenham Hotspur cup final songs path.
I loved and deeply miss them.
The Spurs suck. They lose Kane or Son and they've got nothing.
@@juliehughes1258 what a deeply pointless reply.
Legends, Prolific 60's 70's session musicians. backing Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley and Gene Vincent.
I went to Margate this week and my girlfriend reminded of of their track “Margate” what a tune! Then I started listening to things like Rabbit and Ain’t no pleasing you. Absolute legends.
@@retrobubble0 Doooooown to Margate!
I also realise "Breathe" by Sean Paul featuring Blu Cantrell also sampled "What's the Difference" by Dr. Dre as well as sampling Charles Aznavour's 1966 song "Parce Que Tu Crois".
When he said you'll probably recognise Parce Que Tu Crois, I was expecting "Blu Cantrell", not Dr Dre! I love Breathe so much.
As does 'Dirty Laundry' by Bitter:Sweet. (Less well known by its title, but has been used in tons of TV commercials and TV show soundtracks).
@@alisoncassidy3255 same. The Dre song was a surprise.
No point for me to comment as you did it before me. I instantly recognised 'Breathe'. Such an epic track.
Dernière Danse by Indila as well.
One of the most impressive feats of sampling I know of is “Face to Face” by Daft Punk and Todd Edwards. God knows how many songs were incorporated into it; I’ve seen a breakdown that showed 19 different samples, but there could be more. Great song, too.
Surprisingly, It mentioned on another video of David.
@@HerNameWasWords Ah, I didn't know. Thanks!
You sound like an english major
Yeah, well a lot of other people used sampling, but the only mandatory artist on a sampling video is Fatboy Slim... No one achieved more with the technique than him. He has multiple full albums only made with sampling.
If you want a sampling masterclass, look at the Avalanches first LP. Made entirely of samples and probably numbers between 900 and 2500. There's also an album by Exile called Radio which is made entirely of samples from the Radio.
the amen break was sampled so much it created its own genre
EDIT: apparently i was wrong. it created SEVERAL genres.
*created multiple genres
More than just one!
There was a sign in the produce section of a grocery store that said "Sampling is shoplifting!" Therefore sampling is theft.
“In the J.U.N.G.L.E.!” 🥁
@@jackdublanica Sample these nuts, in your grocery store.
'I Got The' Labi Siffre song is an awsome musical journey with lots of different parts. Recomended for a listen
(the Chaz and Dave connection just makes it better)
"it must be love" was one of Labi's too
@@taliesinllanfair4338 Madness version of 'It must be love' is one of the best covers of all time. When I heard the original song It made Madness' version even more impressive.
I love Labi's vocals!!
Discovered it recently and it has been my fave for a few weeks
You’re sooooooo goood ya the best there is..!!
I agree with the idea. Chucking samples of older songs into new ones isn't necessarily a lack of creativity, but finding a new way to use an existing thing: Innovation. And I always love hearing an older song for the first time and going, "Oh my god, that's from such and such a song!" Or, in reverse, finding out that a song has a sample in it and then seeking out said old song. It's no different to rehashing old songs into new media (such as movies or video games), there's no reason to deny people of the past, just because they weren't there at the time
The Fugees' Ready or Not (a huge hit from 1998) uses a sped-down sample from Enya's Boadicea (a song with hummed vocals). I was very much surprised when I found that out.
Later also used in Mario Winan's "I Don't Wanna Know", which used to be everywhere in 2004.
@@StKozlovskyyup Mario took that beat a notch above with that hook 🥶
My favorite sample
One of my fav sample discoveries!
1996*
Whoa, that *Amen, Brother* drum beat is so famous that I used to play it back in middle school as a warmup with my classmates
One song that always slips under the radar is Steal My Sunshine by Len, the whole song is based on a small snippet of More More More by Andrea True Connection, 2.20 into the song if anyone's interested.
cool bit of info. Steal my sunshine is my guilty pleasure
I work in a grocery store. More More More comes up often on the muzak. I remember the first time I heard it, I noticed that bit and it was so jarring because it really felt like the song had suddenly turned into Steal My Sunshine, and then went back to More More More a few bars later. It's a real mindf*** heh
I knew this to be true first time I heard Steal My Sunshine
Another well-known artist that used sampling is MIA, who used the intro of Straight to Hell by The Clash for the main part of her song Paper Planes
Diplo, well known EDM producer who used that sample for her song
Two brilliant songs
Charles aznavour and Indila
Over the years I have created a "Salute the Sample" Playlist. It is full of all the original recordings that were sampled to create a new form or expression. This help add a couple of new tracks to the playlist. It's very eclectic but it somehow works as something to put on and listen to.
Here's about 1/3 of the list.
Amen Brother
The Winstons
I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)
Michael McDonald
Woman To Woman
Joe Cocker
Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love)
The Delfonics
Sho' Nuff
Sly, Slick & Wicked
Apache
Incredible Bongo Band
I've Got a Woman
Ray Charles
I Got The... (2006 Remaster)
Labi Siffre
Upside Down
Diana Ross
Grandma's Hands
Bill Withers
Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2
The Isley Brothers
The Edge
David McCallum
Music: A Bit More Of Me
Lowdown
Boz Scaggs
I'm Coming Out
Diana Ross
Take Yo' Praise
Camille Yarbrough
Between the Sheets
The Isley Brothers
Got To Give It Up
Marvin Gaye
Think (About It)
Lyn Collins
Parce que tu crois
Charles Aznavour
Funky Drummer
James Brown
Chas & Dave weren’t only the session musicians on Siffre’s album, they also came up with the sampled riff.
Fittingly enough, the fact that a song featuring Chas & Dave being sampled by Eminem has thrown me through an absolute loop.
A snooker loop?
What about the fact they made a song called Rabbit.. and Em played B-rabbit in 8 Mile??😮
I love that breakdown of Praise You by Fatboy Slim. I admire the skill and work it takes to make a quality song out of mainly samples.
Check out Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches
Quality? It is the most annoying song ever created. The same simple beat without a single actual instrument and the same line over and over and over and over and over and over and over......and over. You hear 30 seconds, you heard the whole song.
@@SkepticCyclistThe radio edit is less repetitive.
Lazy compared to you know actually writing a recording your own stuff🤷♂️
@@Jabber-ig3iw going out of your way to find old obscure tracks/demos, single out instruments or vocals, finding a way to stitch several of them together in a seamless way, and creating an entirely new song out of it arguably takes more effort than just making something new. it's like solving a jigsaw puzzle using pieces from different ones and still ending up with a coherent picture
I tend to believe that the difference between good sampling and bad sampling is how lazy they were with it. For the good stuff, either new elements are grafted on top, like a lot of the hip-hop and rap songs, or it's 'chopp'd and screwed' like the Fatboy Slim example, samples tweaked to the point where they are unique in of themselves. And we wouldn't have mashups without it.
Lazy sampling changes basically nothing. But it's really rare.
Hands down the best samplers of our time is Daft Punk. They made songs that sounded nothing like the original from only sampling a single song. Their song Face to Face has 19 different samples from several different artists and songs, almost all of them only 1 second or less, arranged in a way that I can only describe as the funky predecessor to dubstep (I'm pretty certain Skrillex got a large amount of inspiration from Daft Punk).
This is pretty much what The Prodigy did, at least for their older stuff. There's a great youtube video by a dude named Jim Pavloff, where he remakes Smack My Bitch Up from original samples. It's crazy how creative the process is.
you shouldnt give daft punk the credits. It was tood edwards you did the sampling and singing on that song acutally.
Hands down the best samplers in your opinion.
While I'd definitely put Daft Punk (or The Prodigy) up there, there are definitely others that would be in the same stratosphere, e.g. The Avalanches or DJ Shadow.
@@DjIceCnS Todd himself confirmed that Thomas did a big part in that song. They learned for Todd Edwards because he was their inspiration.
David McCallum - The edge which the same album you mentioned chronic 2001 uses his sample on the song the next episode by Dr. Dre. He's infamous for going the crates of old songs and turning them into hip hop hits because no one can tell.
Face to Face by Daft Punk is like a masterclass in sampling
watched the digging the greats video i assume?
As is Voodoo People by The Prodigy.
As is Since I Left You by the Avalanches
They're good at "borrowing" considering their whole shtick was lifted from Kraftwerk. They can't both be "the robots"!
Anything by de la soul is a masterclass
I'm french and the way you said "Parce que tu crois" is hilarious🤣
Sounded like a language that doesn't exist 😆
Glad you said it as a native speaker. I learnt French years ago, and I really had to bend my ears on that one. Ah well, David can't be perfect at everything...
The thing is, I actually tried 😅😅
To be fair, only the "que" was really off to my ear. In French, never pronounce the "u" in a "qu" syllable. So you pronounce only the "k" part of the "qu" and something close to "uh" for the final "e".
I'm Portuguese and also thought it sounded hilarious.
Great breakdown. There's just one point of contention, and that's that the recording artist usually isnt the producer that made/mixed/sampled the beats.
Didn't expect to go from Public Enemy to Powerpuff Girls!
Straight outta the city of Townsville!
One of my favorite songs "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye also samples another song, "Seville" by Luiz Bonfá!
Man this video made me re-evaluate my opinions on some of the pop songs I hear “ripping off” older songs. Would love to see a few of Dua Lipa’s songs in some of your future comparison videos, since I feel like every second song she puts out sounds like something else I’ve heard before.
DJ Shadow’s album “Endtroducing” was the first album created entirely out of samples. He spent MONTHS scouring record shops and what not collecting a massive number of records, then pulled out what he wanted, plus some samples from a few films as well. I think Fat Boy Slim did something similar.
Numbers song is my fave on that one. I tracked down where the drum breaks originated from. Lol
Yeah, the cover of the "Praise You" single actually has a snapshot of some of Fatboy Slim's record collection.
0:30 I immediately knew what song used that sample when I heard the first bars. I never would've known the song used samples without hearing that.
Amen Break and Funky Drummer was basically the main part of the soundtrack to my entire time in the Rave scene as a jungle dj. lol
The drums from When the Levee Breaks has also been sampled a lot
Most notably for me on Rhymin and Stealin by the Beastie Boys.
Came to the comments to say the same. Some other notable uses of this beat are Bjork's Army of Me and Scooter's She's the Sun
@@Georgeirfx As well as artists like Enigma & Velvet Acid Christ.
Haha, I never realized Futurama used the Amen Break too.
Finding that Praise You piano sample was probably some incredible coincidence, but any musician who had heard it would've said "I gotta make a song out of that".
sampling can also be found in dance/electronic music (mainly the underground/indie dance scene from the UK during the late 80s to 90s)
Art Of Noise, RSW & Bomb The Bass, The KLF, The Orb, Orbital, 808 State, FSOL, & few other techno artist/groups that incorporates sampling techniques are pretty good examples. they have some good & familiar or interesting samples in their tunes
Also “Theme From S-Express” by S-Express in 1988. I know one of the samples as it’s from “If It’s Love You’re After” by Rose Royce, but I would love to know the others.
The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett started off as Hip Hop DJ - all their albums are just him tweaking samples …I was surprised when I learnt this
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The fact that Futurama sampled the same beat as NWA's Straight Outta Compton blows my mind.
Also the 90's hit Playas Club by Rappin 4Tay used a sample of Judy Clay and William Bell's 1968 hit "Private Number". Also a group called Nightmares on Wax sampled this song for You Wish. There are others that sampled Private Number.
Crazy Town - Revolving Door, reminds me Playas Club
I like that u put in the cartoon intro songs as well
Stings 'Shape of my heart' is deff worth an honourable mention. Juice worlds - Lucid Dreams would not be half the song without the guitar sample
The drum groove of “Stupid Girl” by Garbage is sampled from the drum groove of The Clash song, “Train In Vain”
Can't believe I missed the Fat Albert callback! Thanks for all of this.
I still think Portishead is the best: writing and recording lounge music and having it pressed to vinyl so they could sample/scratch it into their music, even scratching their own name into one track 🤣
Shout out to The Avalanches!
It's amazing. I've never heard 34 Ghost IV before and immediately had to think NIN.
Another super popular drum break is Ashley's Roachclip by The Soul Searchers. It was especially popular in the late 80s and early 90s.
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3:30 Fun Fact, Dre's sample of Aznavour was sampled by Koxie, a French singer in her song "garçon"
De rien et au revoir!
The list of samples that have been lifted from Lavi Siffre's "I Got The..." would fill a video on their own. I think he's credited on at least 30 songs.
The whole concept of sampling is so cool to me.
Check out J Dilla Don’t Cry
Chas & Dave on an Eminem song. That's one for a pub quiz!
Sampling, as you said, if done cleverly, is not just, but another way of composing. Transferring old sound contents into a new context, and many times new background sounds, lift these good old classics into a new living. This also transfers and credits a lot of old music.
Time passes by, and cultures change. Life is movement, duration is death.
I love the fact you revealed about the origin of Break Beat. I didn't realise the whole genre was based on those drum breaks. So cool
As soon as you played the Amen Break, I head Prodigy's "Mindfields" crazy to think it can be found in so many places.
Notorious B.I.G.'s sample of Herb Alpert's "Rise" is masterful. The original song has a killer bassline and really cool effects on guitar, and Biggy Smalls had a blast with them :)
Sample from Charles Aznavour is also in Blu Cantrell - Breathe
I think Moby’s album Play is pretty cool when it comes to use of samplings.
As someone who started experimenting with this in the early 1980's with tape decks, this is a wonderful foray into creative music. Thanks for the insight.
What Fatboy Slim did was to genuinely create new music from obscure samples. Puff Daddy's Police sample is a guy singing while his stereo plays a song.
Singing? ... too much credit, just mumbling lazy lyrics
1:26 Lil nas didn't compose that beat! he just bought it on Beatstars, YoungKio is a producer!
That Parce Que Tu Crois sample also reminds me of the orchestral backing of Indila's Derniere Danse, which also made it to popular radio around the world a decade ago or so, but never picked up on it in What's The Difference.
i also heard it
I knew old town road was produced by the same producer of modern NIN but I didn't know it also sampled NIN.
*RESPECTFULLY PRODUCED* sampling just reads as the music version of fanart, it's quite a cute thing to do if you think about it that way
Or if you want to get pretentious (I ‘sometimes ‘have the tendency)
Like Dada and Punk art collages.
Some of these facts are just mind blowing, good job 👏🏻
Two samples that are often heard but rarely mentioned are 'UFO' by ESG and 'Close (To The Edge)' by The Art Of Noise. Weirdly enough both were cuts from fun improvised sessions, the former being a random jam the group made when they had a couple of minutes left of studio time and the latter from when one of the members was asked to make random shouts into a mic for sampling in later tracks (found more prevalent in their song 'Beatbox').
Close (to the Edit) by Art of Noise.
skrillex did and does a lot of this in his songs, it's perfect
Hip-hop is filled with so many great samples. One of my favorite ones has to be a sample from Bernard Wright - Spinnin'. Skee-Lo took a sample from it for his track I Wish.
Btw, Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim is an absolute genius with all the samples he has used to create his records.
I love finding out tracks I've loved for decades are samples.
I also love it when a new track comes out and samples something i grew up with.
08:57. And this is why Norman Cook is a certified musical genius. Also, to come from the pop group “The House Martins” and then morph into “Beats International” and then to be a world renowned Dance Music artist and incredible DJ..Incredible.
Don't forget Pizzaman and Freak Power... he's been through many guises. He's also responsible for quite a few remixes, like the #1 remix of Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha"
Bravo, Bravo! What an amazing video! Thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing and kept wanting for more after it ended.
Loved this one David! The 'sampling is cheating' argument is so lazy, sampling can unlock so much inspiration. I like to find a good sample and then layer my own instruments on top of it, using it as the 'foundation' - it's lots of fun, highly recommend
If the sample remains the most iconic part of a new song, just like in most examples in this video, it IS lazy. For me it's disheartening to realize that the musician I admired for some piece of music isn't actually the one deserving the credits. Creative sampling is art, looping some existing catchy part is just copy-pasting.
The outro music is so beautiful! Very good job composing it, David!
How many people have built songs on the backing track of "Genius of Love" by the Tom Tom Club?
Dre had the beat sampled before meeting Em, when they finally met he said "I have this beat I'd like you to hear", as soon as Em heard it he started rapping to it "My name is, my name is", Dre then stopped him, got him in the mic booth and My name is was recorded just like that. The video showing them first meeting and Dre putting on the beat is on here (YT).
¡Thank you for introducing me to Labi Siffre! I love your dives into different music not just for your content itself but also for the new songs I discover. And just for the record, I've heard the entire JBL album, but it was years ago and I don't remember much about it.
I have an assignment due tomorrow on this topic. Thank god for David
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From a musician's pov, wouldn't you prefer if instead of sampling a funky drum loop, they actually hired a human drummer to recreate it?
Bit different back then, it was easier to use a sample because it was already there and mastered. If you got a drummer in it would take more time to record and master the drum loop, and more money would have had to be spent.
no. Next question
Easier and cheaper to sample
The tradition and origin of hiphop is basically; create something out of nothing.
@@Timoleon87Then not paying or crediting the talent that they stole from!
The Parce Que Tu Crois was also (and in my mind it’s the first song that springs up) sampled on Blu Cantrell hit Breathe lol also on the pint of Amen brother REALLY NOT SURE but I’m getting two songs to mind, right here right now by the Fatboy slim (Norman Cook) but also weirdly Brimful of Asha by Corner Shop but maybe it was the Norman cook remix I dunno… just popped into my head. Very interesting video though.
FYI “Parce que tu crois” would be pronounced roughly like “parse kuh too kwah.”
Unfortunately the "r" sound in crois does not exist in English.
@@mark314158 it’s always so hard to explain how French words are pronounced when typing. Even the explanation I gave above is unsatisfactory. I could write “paʁs kə ty kʁwa” but the vast majority of people won’t have any idea how to pronounce that. It doesn’t help that que, tu, and crois all have sounds that don’t exist in English.
@@turnerIott Hmm... Apparently I have been pronouncing que and tu incorrectly all my life. 🤔
Trent Reznor seems so chill with samples and covers unless I’m missing something he’s always fine with them
Lots of artists are. Theres some notable exceptions but a lot of artists have a deep love of music and the way it reaches everyone that listens to it. They understand its meant to be shared.
I respect sampling as a separate skill which is more like mixing than actually music making. I prefer the actual music making.
My favorite sample whenever i hear is Herb Alpert - Rise (1979) which has a sound that has been sampled by Biggie in Hypnotize and also other artists through the years.
As a musician that works hard to learn music. I don't call it sampling I call it stealing.
I'd love to see more videos delving into the topic of sampling, because its such a broad and in my opinion important topic to cover, especially if one was to look into the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique.
The fact it took four people to write Toxic is a sad indictment on the music industry
Why?
Fun Fact: The guy who made "I Got The", Labi Siffre actually also made "My Song" which is what Kanye West famously sampled on his track "I Wonder"
It seems like 100% original songs are hard to find
Can there be such a thing as 100% original? Someone had to be inspired by something at somepoint to create in any medium whether art or film or music.
well yeah pretty much. all music is derivative. It is all made from the same base building blocks and stuff inspires each other and styles and genres and trends become cyclical.
"Praise You" is an original combination of elements, certainly. Elsewhere there's a video on court cases around musical copying, where one side was trying to suggest the chord sequence was novel and so somehow protected... except JS Bach used it a little earlier.
I was listening to Poe, and I was reminded of how hers song Wild includes a sample from her song Hello. That made me wonder what other cases there are of this "self sampling". I can't think of any offhand, but I can think some examples of songs that reference another song by the same musician or band in other ways. Like how the movie version of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall references the lyrics of Money.
Hold on Eminem samples Chas n Dave
The 1996 song “6 Underground” by The Sneaker Pimps samples the horns and harp from John Barry’s “Golden Girl” from the soundtrack to the James Bond movie Goldfinger.
This just serves to reinforce my opinion that the vast majority of these so-called "artists" are incapable of creating anything 100% on their own. I find that I have infinitely more respect for the artists who originally created (you know, actually thought up, and PLAYED) the hooks and drum beats that were cool enough to get used and abused by others.
Love this. My fave example will always be the roger Sanches and toto one. Never knew it was a cover and introduced me to the original which is now one of my favourite songs of all time.
Alright, the Futurama clip got me. Kudos sir
Love the editing in the funky drummer segment👍
Hey, what about Portishead's Glory Box? This is sampled from the Isaac Hayes' "Ike's rap 2/Help me love"
Of everything I’ve heard on this video, your closing music remains the most moving, David.
The chas and dave fact blew my mind
Some great samples here, I hope you do a speacial vid on samplers who make an entire song from samples...The Avalanches are an awesome example of this.
I have never heard that NIN song in my life the one for Lil Nas and I instantly knew it was NIN. Maybe because it sounded similar to Hurt by NIN.
This was so good! I am learning a lot here!
That quote from Trent was for Hurt cover by Johnny Cash
Great Materials and great Video !!!!
3:19 Dr. Dre did't use the sample, he recreate the melody, like most of his 'sampled' songs from Chronic 2001
Amazing video! Great work!
There are so many you could do a part 2... I think Groovejet certainly deserves a mention
This already is part 2 😉. You can catch part 1 here: th-cam.com/video/951suvmMDs4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OFx7yCLAem8Zb7RE