Pop Will Eat Itself: Sample Sources
The sample is integral to house and hip hop, whether it's that snatch of a vocal or the bassline. Ever wondered where that familiar snatch of a song came from? Here's a hardly-comprehensive list of sample sources, slightly limited because for the most part I'm only listing songs for which I own both the original and the sample source. It's important, I think, to see the common roots of both house and hip hop in 70s music. Disco house samples extensively from disco, obviously, especially from the old Larry Levan / Paradise Garage favourites but really everything seems like fair game.
If you have any samples to suggest to me, please e-mail me. Thanks to all who've written in so far
(NB: This list excludes cover versions, or versions which are so obviously covers there's no real need to name them. It also excludes obvious bootlegs/battle records, although sometimes the distinction isn't that sharp.)
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Sampling Song |
Original Source |
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Afrika Bambaataa "Planet Rock" |
Kraftwerk "Trans Europe Express" |
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Agent Sumo "Sunflowers" |
Young and Co. "I Like What You're Doing To Me" |
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Airheadz "Stanley's In a Trance" |
Dido "Thank You" |
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All Seeing I "The Beat Goes On" |
Buddy Rich "The Beat Goes On" |
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Armand van Helden "Koochie" |
Gary Numan "Cars" |
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Armand van Helden "You Don't Even Know Me" |
Carrie Lucas "Dance With You" |
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Basement Jaxx "Red Alert" |
Locksmith "Far Beyond" The Jackson Sisters "I Believe in Miracles" (only on the Miracles remix) |
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Basement Jaxx "Same Old Show" |
KRS-One "Hip Hop vs. Rap" Selecter "On My Radio" (the "Same Old Show" line) Veda Simpson "Ooooh Baby" |
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Basement Jaxx "Star" |
Stevie Wonder "Another Star" |
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Beastie Boys "Intergalactic" |
Les Baxter, "Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor" Jazz Crusaders "Powerhouse" |
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Beatchuggers "Forever Man (How Many Times?" |
Eric Clapton "Forever Man" |
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Beatnuts "Watch Out Now" |
Herbie Mann "High-Jack" |
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Beats International "Dub Be Good to Me" |
The Clash "Guns of Brixton" SOS Band "Just Be Good to Me" |
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Bellini "Samba de Janiero" |
Airto "Celebration Suite" |
| Beyonce Knowles "Crazy in Love" | The Chi-Lites "Are You My Woman?" |
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Big Papa "Now Is The Time" |
Junior Giscombe "Mama Used To Say" |
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Big Time Charlie "Mr Devil" |
Chic "My Forbidden Lover" |
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Big Time Charlie "On the Run" |
Ecstasy, Passion & Pain "Touch and Go" Jocelyn Brown "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (I think it's the Brown version, at least) |
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Black Box "Ride on Time" |
Loleatta Holloway "Love Sensation" |
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Black Legend "You See the Trouble With Me" (aka "We'll Be in Trouble") |
Barry White "You See the Trouble With Me" (a live version) |
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Black Machine "How Gee" |
Maceo and the Macks "Soul Power '74" (indeed, the Carwash mix album mixes the 2 songs into each other) |
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Blackstreet "No Diggity" |
Bill Withers "Grandma's Hands" |
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Bob Marley vs. Funkstar Deluxe "Sun is Shining" |
Bob Marley "Sun is Shining" (obvious innit?) |
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Brock Landars "S.M.D.U." |
Blur "Song 2" The Prodigy "Smack My Bitch Up" |
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Cassius "My Feeling For You" |
Gwen McCrae "All This Love That I'm Giving" (vocals and bassline from the chorus) |
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Cevin Fisher "(You Got Me) Burning Up" |
Loleatta Holloway "Love Sensation" |
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Chemical Brothers "Block Rockin Beats" |
23 Skidoo "Coup" (actually, I can't tell if it's a sample or if they rerecorded the bass guitar) |
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Clepto-Maniacs "Number One" |
Patrice Rushen "Numero Uno" |
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Coolio "Gangsta's Paradise" |
Stevie Wonder "Pastime Paradise" |
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Daddy's Favourite "I Feel Good Things For You" |
Patrice Rushen "Haven't You Heard?" |
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Dario "Sunchyme" |
Dream Academy "Life in a Northern Town" |
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David Morales presents the Face "Needin' U" (and "Needin' U 2000") |
The Chi-Lites "My First Mistake" Rare Pleasure "Let Me Down Easy" |
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Deaf and Dumb Crew "Tonite" |
Michael Jackson "Off the Wall" |
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Dee-Lite "Groove is in the Heart" |
Herbie Hancock "Bring Down the Birds" |
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Disco Tex "I Can Cast A Spell" |
Chaka Khan "I'm Every Woman" |
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DJ Sneak "You Can't Hide From Your Bud" |
Teddy Pendergrass "You Can't Hide From Yourself" |
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Dope Smugglaz "Double Double Dutch" |
Malcolm McLaren "Double Dutch" (Liz Phair takes the lyrics of the chorus to "Whipsmart" from this too) |
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Eclipse "Makes Me Love You" |
Sister Sledge "Thinking of You" (the "makes me love you" chorus) |
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Eminem "My Name Is" |
Labi Siffre "I Got The" (bassline) |
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Eminem "Stan" |
Dido "Thank You" (kind of obvious ever since Dido performed the song live with him on SNL) |
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Fatboy Slim "Everybody Needs a 303" |
Edwin Starr "Everybody Needs Love" Simply Red "Fairground" |
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Fatboy Slim "Praise You" |
Carmille Yarbrough "Take Yo' Praise" (vocals) |
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Fatboy Slim "Right Here Right Now" |
The James Gang "The Ashes The Rain and I" |
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Fatboy Slim "The Rockafeller Skank" |
Just Brothers "Sliced Tomatoes" John Barry Seven "Beat Girl" |
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Full Intention "America (I Love America)" |
Patrick Juvet "I Love America" |
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Full Intention "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" (more a full cover than a sampling) |
Roy Ayers "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" |
