A special brand of clones are movie theme songs. Or more precisely sequel theme songs. Often film studios exploit a sequel as “the same film but with more explosions”, likewise they give the soundtrack the same treatment for a quick cash in. And like you try to keep the characters the same, you want to […]

A particular song by Bob James, Nautilus, has been sampled by dozens of hiphop (and other) artists. Since this post would be too long if I went into the entire list, there’s another song I want to focus on: Sing of the Times from 1981. It first re-appeared as a sampled in the 1991 De […]

The song Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce has been taking the world by storm for weeks. The video is loaded with tons of artists including Pharell and Kanye West. Duck Sauce is DJ’s Armand van Helden and A-trak and like the title DJ suggests, apart from making records themselves, they like to spin other people’s […]

The Queens of the Stone age borrow a line from Björk and give it a different spin.

The Sneaker Pimps sample De La Soul and John Barry in 6 Underground

The Roof is on Fire is on the B-side of Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three’s 1984 single Request Line, but despite this, the lyrics become iconic and even the not-famous bits gets sampled by The Chemical Brothers.

Sigur Rós get their fair share of requests for lending their musical for commercials, but they always say no. Yet, their music always pops up in these ads anyhow … as clone songs.

Technotronic lifts the idea from their hit single ‘Pump up the Jam’ from Farley Jackmaster Funk and then release the same song twice more.

Former Dutch Idols star Jim Bakkum not only scandalous-ly covered his song This Love is Real from CB Milton, the music was directly take from the song Scandalous by Mis-Teeq.

A sleazy, roaring horn sound in a song with drag queens from the film Cabaret becomes an engine roar of a drag racer in Yello’s The Race.