What songs have sampled the philosopher Alan Watts? [more inside]
posted by benzenedream on Dec 14, 2009 - 4 answers

My husband mixes dance music using Fruity Loops. I want to get him some CDs for Christmas for samples -- particularly stuff that sounds like Fatboy Slim. Help? [more inside]
posted by heatherfl on Dec 7, 2009 - 16 answers

The track www.nevergetoveryou uses the ICQ "Uh oh!" sample. What other commercially released music uses samples from computer programs, OSs, or related geeky sources?
posted by Mwongozi on May 29, 2009 - 17 answers

PF Project's song Choose Life is constructed from samples of a monologue by the lead character of the film Trainspotting. Similarly, This Is Your Life by the Dust Brothers is built around samples from the film Fight Club reformulated as a monologue and overlaid on some trip-hop beats. Neither was actually featured in the film, but were released as singles and appeared on the soundtrack. What other songs like this are there?
posted by xchmp on May 24, 2009 - 19 answers

What's being sampled in Wu Tang's "Rock Steady"? What other songs are like this? [more inside]
posted by hpliferaft on Feb 16, 2009 - 6 answers

Can I make an Ableton Live sound pack with my own samples? I have .aiff drum sounds that I want to make into a kit.
posted by MNDZ on Mar 22, 2008 - 2 answers

For a few years now I've noticed a sample that I believe is the same in two songs. Posse in Effect by the Beastie Boys, and Take it Slow by Technotronic (scroll down to Pump up the Jam)... Each page has a sample to listen to. It seems to be a slow sax sample. I'm not sure, but that's what I think it is. Is it the same sample? If so, does anyone know where it's sampled from?
posted by symbioid on Feb 9, 2007 - 3 answers

I'm looking for a sample pack of all of the words/letters/numbers/phonemes from a Speak n' Spell (and/or derivatives). I'm not looking for crazy circuit bent samples... just something I can piece together words/phrases out of. Surely someone has done this. [more inside]
posted by phrontist on Jan 20, 2007 - 9 answers

Electronic "music" from the 1960's. [more inside]
posted by Venadium on Nov 21, 2006 - 15 answers

Where do The Books get their samples? [more inside]
posted by tylermoody on Aug 3, 2006 - 17 answers

MuFi has got the best of me - help me get started making electronic music, particularly drum 'n' bass/idm. [more inside]
posted by MetaMonkey on Jul 12, 2006 - 15 answers

I am trying to find a comprehensive list of all the samples (both music and film) on Wax Tailor's new album, Tales of the Forgotten Melodies. What resources are available online to help me obtain this? [more inside]
posted by seiji224 on Jul 2, 2006 - 2 answers

Are there any comprehensive sites which catalog the original sources of audio later sampled in songs? [more inside]
posted by Danelope on Jun 12, 2006 - 6 answers

Music that samples from Jame Bond themes? [more inside]
posted by GuyZero on Mar 20, 2006 - 20 answers

Identify this MP3. It's a clip from the song "Let Me Love you" by Mario, but some friends are up in arms over what 80s track it samples. Can you help keep my friends out of padded rooms over this?
posted by xmutex on May 2, 2005 - 9 answers

In the past I've had some fun with making music using tracker programs to make .mod files (and .s3m, etc). I'm guessing this is probably a bit outdated now, so my question is really twofold...[more inside] [more inside]
posted by tomble on Jan 12, 2005 - 10 answers

Does anyone know of a website that lists songs and the tracks they stole samples from? My googlefu has failed me.
posted by twine42 on Nov 19, 2004 - 4 answers

At the Frankfurt Musikmesse '04, Powercore did a demo of some of it's latest Whizzbang equipment to let DJ's apply less-fake sounding filters to music samples and other fun things. The guy who did the presentation, Jim Motley,
seems like an absolute spaz, and it's kinda fun to see how into it he is. Here's for the question - does anyone recognize the music that he's messing with in there? It seems like a British version of Ozomatli, which could be a fun thing.
I can't get this outta my head. Anyone recognize it?

Here's Jim, freakin' out.
More videos here.
posted by kahboom on Sep 27, 2004 - 4 answers

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?
posted by Slimemonster on Feb 1, 2004 - 9 answers