Comments on: Identify this sample: vocal dialogue on DJ Shadow's 'Stem/Long Stem'

Question: Identify this sample: vocal dialogue on DJ Shadow's 'Stem/Long Stem'

Slimemonster — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:15:43 -0800

Obscure song question: On DJ Shadow's first full length album, there's a song called Stem/Long Stem. About halfway through he samples some tv show or movie or record with a man talking about being taken to jail for parking tickets or something. DJ shadow doesnt list who this is in the liner notes. Would anyone possibly know where this originally came from?

By: Jairus

Jairus — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:55:46 -0800

It's from a Murray Roman recording called Freedom.

By: kindall

kindall — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:59:03 -0800

According to this page, it's from a comedy recording by Murray Roman, which turns out to be a track called "Freedom" from his album Busted.

Found it by Googling: "now they lock me up" +movie and then "Murray Roman" +Freedom.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:15:59 -0800

Although it doesn't have this specific sample listed, the Top Sample Sources List is a good first start to tracking down samples.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:19:16 -0800

No help from me, though when I saw him at the SF Fillmore, he did actually screen the film from which he pulled the whole "well, hello there little buddy, is that your dog?" bit. Not that it explained anything to me.

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:27:06 -0800

He did the same in Edinburgh too. I always thought the OPs sample was Elliot Gould. there you go

By: squirrel

squirrel — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:43:05 -0800

On another sampling note, I watched "the Dark Crystal" a few weeks ago and found in the movie's intro the near-verbatim intro to Crystal Method's "the power of their source" opening for "Trip Like I Do" (Vegas). What's strange is that it's not verbatim, and the voice is a little different. So it isn't a sample from that movie, exactly. Anyone know the story behind this sample?

By: sillygwailo

sillygwailo — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:04:32 -0800

For a comprehensive listing of DJ Shadow's samples, done at the grass-roots level (i.e. not endorsed by DJ Shadow himself), you would have to subscribe to the DJ Shadow Samples mailing list to get the URL of the website, since it changes weekly.

By: frykitty

frykitty — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:03:40 -0800

Thanks for asking this! I'd long been curious about those samples as well.

By: Slimemonster

Slimemonster — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:25:34 -0800

thanks a lot guys