Their use of samples was just…goddamn
I love digging into WhoSampled for that kind of stuff. Absolutely fascinating. The Sister Sledge tune is so good too.
To be fair, a lot of artists, particularly electronic and hip hop artists, are absolute masters with samples. The Avalanches’ debut album, Since I Left You, is composed almost entirely from samples, believed to use over 3500(!!), and it’s an absolute joy from start to finish. If you’ve never heard it before, I implore you to check it out!
LOVE The Avalanches. Frontier Psychiatrist is an absolute jam. I got super into mashup in college. Girl Talk and DJ Shadow, of course, but also Super Mash Bros, E603, Easter Bunny, White Panda, Norweigian Recycling. . .
Partner was super into artists like Daedalus at the time, too. We even got out to one of the last Moogfests out in Asheville around that time. It was a really fun era in my musical journey <3
Oh amazing! Some of those I’ve not heard of so will try and give them a spin.
It really ticks me off when I see/hear folk downplay the effort, skill and craft that goes into electronic and dance music. Mashing up and manipulating wildly disparate pieces of music and sound so they complement each other is an incredible ability that never ceases to amaze me.
Ah, man, copy/paste error, but I should have caught it, so my bad. :(
As for bands that sample well, I really like/recommend DJ Frane, Negativland, and Nightmares on Wax.
I had never made the Daft Punk connection here, but I love this song. It’s like finding out that Eminem song that was so great was produced by Dre, and of fucking course it was. (I don’t know much about music, and I discover it all out of order.)
How about the fact that Toxic by Britney Spears is fantastic and that’s because it’s by two of the dudes from Miike Snow (Bloodshy and Avant).
The more you know.
Miike Snow are the peeps behind this song (by the by):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E
This was fun seeing the tune emerge from the edits.
:-O
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Wow, that was brilliant. Thanks for sharing!
There’s a chap on YouTube called Jim Pavloff who recreated some Prodigy songs in Ableton some years back and it’s fascinating because, much like the video above, it shows the original samples and how they’re edited to fit together (but on a much more granular level). Liam Howlett wouldn’t have used this kind of software, obviously, but it’s still amazing to see/hear. Worth a look and listen.
More on One More Time sampling:
— Alan