Entries Tagged ‘samples’

Bob James – Sign of the Times

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 […]

Nighttrain – Hallo Bimmelbahn

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 […]

Björk – Crying

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

Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground

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

The Roof Is On Fire

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.

Technotronic: how to sample yourself too

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

Mis-Teeq vs. Jim Bakkum – This Scandalous Love is Not Real

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.

Deee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart

Deee-Lite’s “Groove in the Heart” is composed entirely from a TON of samples plus some original vocal.

Chi-Lites – Are You My Woman

The Chi-Lites record Are You My Woman. When Beyonce uses a sample of it, suddenly everyone covers it, using the original melody.

Fatboy Slim – the Rockafeller Skank

Fatboy Slim samples, well just about EVERYBODY

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