What is this sample in these two songs?

November 30, 2014 4:33 PM

What is the sample used in Homebody Sandman's "I Saw a World" and Cunninlynguists - "Things I Dream"?

Things I dream, and I saw a world. The sample has multiple parts. It's either from 2 sources or all from the same source. Most of the samples occur in Homebody Sandman's song - at the start, throughout, but notably at around 2:18, and 3:28.

"I had a dream and it was so strange...so strange".
"I saw a world"
'Millions of visions', 'and we all live in a dream', 'traveling through galaxies, from planet to planet'

No matter what combination of words or phrases I think I'm sure of, nothing comes up in searches. Whosampled was no help. Shazam gave me the 2 songs back. What is this song?

posted by cashman to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

I googled "I see the things I dream" based on the Cunninlynguists track, which was not a lyric in your question, and I found this. Sounds like it to me. Here are the lyrics. It may help if you give the timestamps of the sample you're referring to in those two tracks you link.
posted by AppleTurnover at 4:52 PM on November 30, 2014

Response by poster: Thanks anyway AppleTurnover, that's not it. I'm looking for the sample that is all through the Homeboy Sandman song.
posted by cashman at 5:17 PM on November 30, 2014

Are you sure it was a sample in the first place (on the Cunninlynguists track)?
posted by dilaudid at 6:14 PM on November 30, 2014

Response by poster: I'm not sure what you mean. Listening to the Homeboy Sandman song, it's definitely a sample.
posted by cashman at 7:28 PM on November 30, 2014

I think Dilaudid is saying that Cunninlynguists' made the 'sample' themselves. As in: it originated in the Cunninlynguists' song. Maybe they got someone in to record that specific line, and then Homeboy Sandman sampled it.

I would say that it is definitely possible considering the Cunninlynguists' song came out in 2007 and Homeboy Sandman's was released in 2014. Also notable is the fact that it sounds like Homeboy Sandman uses a more distorted version of the same audio.

I found this Yahoo answers page but didn't get anywhere with it.
posted by moon_space at 9:41 PM on November 30, 2014

Response by poster: Oh..., okay. That's really unlikely I think.
posted by cashman at 6:23 AM on December 1, 2014