What songs would you sample were you a producer?

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A filthy rich and popular producer at that.

Moka, Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:29 (3 years ago) Permalink

Jacqueline Taieb - Le Couer au boit des doigts

Always been in love with the horn section of this particular song, could bet it'd be a huge hit given a proper treatment:

Moka, Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

zappa - willie the pimp

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

the brief transcendent moments of a hundred mediocre indie songs

you! me! posting! (electricsound), Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

^intro

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

Never noticed it before but assuming you meant the riff 'willie the pimp' is a really good choice.

Moka, Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

lots of good lil bits

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

1:50ish

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

The strings intro of this, with a little bit of pitch-shifting:

one boob is free with one (daavid), Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

Some wicked choices so far. Wasn't the Raphael track sampled by Violent by Design?

Moka, Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

I meant sampled by Jedi Mind Tricks for the Violent by Design album.

Moka, Saturday, 22 August 2009 08:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

Lucio Battisti - Ancora Tu

Moka, Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

totally share your love for that horn section!

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

1:25

iatee, Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

Some wicked choices so far. Wasn't the Raphael track sampled by Violent by Design?

― Moka, Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:56 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

It doesn't appear on the Wikipedia page of the album. Could it be another album?

one boob is free with one (daavid), Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

Just checked and no it's definitely not been sampled by them tho it would fit quite well along the other samples they used on it. Good choice.

Moka, Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

Thanks!

0:00-0:10

one boob is free with one (daavid), Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

^Just found out that's been done :(

one boob is free with one (daavid), Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

This one!

one boob is free with one (daavid), Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

OOOOPS!

one boob is free with one (daavid), Saturday, 22 August 2009 09:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

duran duran "the chauffeur"

damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Saturday, 22 August 2009 10:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

so when some of these choices start showing up in popular hip hop songs a year or two from now, what'll you do?

a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Saturday, 22 August 2009 10:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

first 12 seconds

Dom J. Palladino (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 August 2009 11:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

The break in "Spacer" by Sheila B. and Devotion.

ρεμπετις, Saturday, 22 August 2009 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ann Peebles - Can't stand the rain

She - Easy Money

Moka, Sunday, 23 August 2009 00:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

think timbaland beat you to the ann peebles.
so much good music on this thread. love the Jacqueline Taieb, and yeah that psychfurs would go, sounds like newscast intro sting, real dramatic...

m0stlyClean, Sunday, 23 August 2009 00:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

Timbaland sampled that same Ann Peebles song!? When?

Moka, Sunday, 23 August 2009 00:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

pretty sure.
isn't there a track on "so addictive"?

m0stlyClean, Sunday, 23 August 2009 01:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

don't know if u guys are joking about Timbo I am down this rabbithole so long. If not then The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) is maybe the greatest single and video ever imo so youtube is worth it in this instance, but you know, maybe yall are being super ironic I CAN'T TELL ANYMORE!

❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 23 August 2009 01:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

A quick google search tells he used it for Missy's 'Supa Dupa Fly'. Honestly had no idea it had been used, first time I hear the song. Really nice use of the sample, something a tad similar to what I had in mind :P

We should erase the whole thread before Timbaland finds it.

Moka, Sunday, 23 August 2009 01:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

Whoa! it even peaked #3 in the US charts! Why had I never listened to this song before?

Moka, Sunday, 23 August 2009 01:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

Little do ye know that the original poster is a hotshot producer low on inspiration.

ecuador_with_a_c, Sunday, 23 August 2009 01:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

musically, Sunday, 23 August 2009 02:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

I've been playing around with Alan Parsons Project's "Games People Play" (just the part after it kicks in, but before it goes to the verse), slowing it down to about 75%. If I could throw a beat on top of what's there, it would sound pretty sweet.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 23 August 2009 03:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

I've done the same, slightly slowed down the beat of Michael Sembello's "Maniac". I actually have a finished track now... that doesn't sound all that different from "Maniac". :/

one boob is free with one (daavid), Sunday, 23 August 2009 03:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Pinball Wizard" with the "How do you think he does it? (I don't know.)" line slowed way down.

Q. Tarantino Presents: Popeye (Eazy), Sunday, 23 August 2009 03:41 (3 years ago) Permalink

my cool and kinda obscure answer for years used to be Frankie Valli's Beggin, but that's kinda obvious now.

my other one was Phil Ochs' Tape From California.

dan selzer, Sunday, 23 August 2009 03:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

Good question. Random list:

  • Al Green, Belle
  • Art Pepper, Tin Tin Deo
  • Bee Gees, Spirits Having Flown
  • Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby (Take 2)
  • Blind Willie Johnson, Dark Was The Night/Cold Was The Ground
  • The Chantells, Children of Jah
  • Duke Ellington, Acht O’Clock Rock
  • Johnny Clarke, In The Roots of the Ghetto
  • Journey, Girl Can’t Help It
  • Low, Silver Rider (the wordless chorus)
  • Neil Young, See The Sky About To Rain (the bluesy guitar line)
  • Planet P Project, Why Me?
  • The Psychedelic Furs, Pretty In Pink (the Talk Talk Talk version)
  • Prince Alla, Stone
  • R.E.M., Laughing (the jangle-y guitar line or a snippet of the baseline)
  • Rachid Taha, Rani
  • Sammy Johns, Chevy Van (hard to make this one “cool,” I suppose)
  • Steely Dan, Hey 19
  • Sugar Minott, So Much Trouble (the vocal chorus or snake-y synth line)
  • Sylford Walker, Deuteronomy
  • Raul Seixas, Metamorfose Ambulante
  • The Boris Gardiner Happening, Ghetto Funk
  • Sweet, Fox On The Run
  • Universals, New Generation
  • George McRae, I Get Lifted (this has probably been sampled 1000 times already)
  • Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestros, Dododo (Ekassa No. 1) (the rising organ in the chorus)
  • The Professionals, A Part Of Being With You
  • WEB, The Same Old Me
  • Harmonettes, Shame Shame Shame (cover version)
  • Olivia Newton-John, Magic
The foregoing list serves only to prove how crappy a producer I’d be, but there it is.

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 August 2009 04:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

I don't know. Something by Jame Brown.

Flea Kuti (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 23 August 2009 04:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

Little do ye know that the original poster is a hotshot producer low on inspiration.

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Moka, Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

don't think this ann peebles has been used yet:

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

George McRae, I Get Lifted (this has probably been sampled 1000 times already)

just about:
McCrae, George
Rock Your Baby: (TK 1974)
* "I Get Lifted"
112 - "Only You"
50 Cent ft the Madd Rapper - "How to Rob"
B Fats - "B Fats"
Big Daddy Kane - "Mortal Combat"
Black Rock & Ron - "Act Like You Know"
Blackstreet ft Janet Jackson - "Girlfriend, Boyfriend"
Compton's Most Wanted - "They Still Gafflin'"
Digital Underground - "Doowutchyalike"
DJ Quik - "Diggin U Out"
Geto Boys - "I Get Lifted"
Hi-C - "Skanless Hip-Hop Megamix"
Intelligent Hoodlum - "Back to Reality"
Isis - "Rebel Soul"
Jaz - "Doped Up"
Keith Murray - "Get Lifted"
King T - "E Get Swift"
Kool Moe Dee - "Knowledge is King"
MC Shy D - "Don't Sweat Me"
Montell Jordan ft Slick Rick - "I Like"
Mr. Dalvin - "Get Mine"
Notorious BIG - "Respect"
NWA - "Quiet on tha Set"
Redhead Kingpen - "Do the Right Thing"
Snoop Dogg - "Gin and Juice"
Tim Dog - "Bitch with a Perm"
Zhigge - "Born Black"

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

oops. THIS ann peebles:

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

wonder if someone like 9th Wonder has already got to this one:

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

I was thinking the other day someone should sample the line in "Silver Dagger" - "my daddy is a handsome devil/he's got a chain 5 miles long"

less attractive women need to make up for it in "garage" (clotpoll), Sunday, 23 August 2009 15:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

i'm sure i suggested this the last time we did this, but anyway

zappi, Sunday, 23 August 2009 17:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

"dont bring me down" - elo

so much sample-loop it-fuck potential in that song.
cant believe it hasn't been done before.
[now i wait for someone to show me it has already !]

mark e, Sunday, 23 August 2009 17:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

Guitar riff from "Down by the River"

Also - and i attempted this one time - opening bar of Dennis Wilson's "Dreamer" slightly sped up.

Moreno, Sunday, 23 August 2009 18:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

Magnetic Fields - The Dreaming Moon

Several snippets from the intro and the vibraphone breaks would make a great edit.

Moka, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 19:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ok last one for the day, I promise. Mariah - 心臓の扉 (Shinzo No Tobira)

Great hooks throughout the song. No idea what kind of genre could find use in a sample like this one but would love to hear it anyways.

Moka, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ok I lied, but I promise this is the last one I'll post in months:

Jan Hammer - Don't You Know

In the same vein as the Captain Beefheart and Dennis Wilson suggestions upthread (which I agree would make great samples).

Moka, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Phil Cordell - Red Lady

Moka, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

The intro (reggae intros are like a whole separate genre, huh?)

elephant rob, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

^ Kind of sounds like the Goldfinger theme.

Moka, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 01:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Garth Marenghi - I'm A One Track Lover

Whistle - Buggin

Moka, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 04:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

The Flying Lizards - Her Story

Moka, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 04:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

SL2 - On A Ragga Tip

Moka, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 05:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

Sugar Man - Sixto Rodriguez

Brief horn section starting 30 seconds in.

Moka, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 05:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

The strings at 1:32.

naus, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 06:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

The Royal Teens - Short Shorts, or Cymande - One More

youngcleanlegit, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

Something amazing could be done with this.

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Sun Ra "Golden Lady"

in my day we had to walk 10 miles in the snow for VU bootleg (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

i'm sure someone has used this but whosampled's coming up nada

shugazi (herb albert), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeh that drum breaks been used by DJ Shadow, Towa Tei etc etc.

zappi, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

meisenfek, Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

Actually that Millenium song has been sampled before:

But I'd like to hear it in something better.

And on the topic at hand:

at 3:40

MarkoP, Thursday, 10 June 2010 01:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

i don't dislike the song or anything, but the piano intro here should really be used as a sample, by someone very rich.

― del griffith

repost from:

Nice intro! Shame about the song......

Moka, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 03:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

It's already been sampled a couple of times but still...

Moka, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 03:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

A few more:

Jorge Ben - Chove Chuva

Tulipa Ruiz - Efemera

Update and clean up the choir synth melody off this one
Mecano - :

Moka, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 06:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

µ Ziq - Phiesope

Alhaji K.Frimpong - KyenKyen Bi Adi Mawu

Manu Chao - La Primavera

Moka, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 06:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

Tom Scott - today

Moka, Saturday, 4 December 2010 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

The part before the 1st verse with the xylophone bit:

daavid, Thursday, 20 January 2011 07:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

first 5 seconds:

bing, Thursday, 20 January 2011 07:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Wulu Bunun & David Darling - Lugu Lugu Kan-Ibi

Several parts of the song... actually the whole record is sample-worthy.

Warsaw Village Band - Fishie

Opening guitar line and bass.

Moka, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

The Cure's "Close to Me" and "Lullaby" would also make great samples but not sure if they've been used properly in the past.

Moka, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

Mmm just checked and "close to me" has been used by seeed, sort of covered by Lady Sovereign and mash-uped with Robyn. Seeed track makes me think if slowed down a bit, and with a few more beats would make a brilliant riddim.



Moka, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

Moka, go to youtube and search for "cure riddim". This is one of my favorites:

rob, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

did anyone plead the case for, 'if I were a producer I wouldn't sample shit, I'll make up my own, thank you... dueces!'

SeanWayne, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

Reminded by another thread where Scott S just bought a copy of this album. Anyway, I'm amazed if nobody has sampled about 1:43 in to this:

dlp9001, Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah. Ahh. (los blue jeans), Saturday, 14 January 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

George Hurley drum parts would be a gold mine. Has he been sampled much?

Steamtable Willie (WmC), Saturday, 14 January 2012 21:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

this wouldn't be as good as i'm imagining i'm sure but i've had a recurring thought of kool and the gang's "too hot" sampled by the jacka or something -- kind of his regular synth beat with a chorus sampling that somewhat odd bridge "feeling the pain."

chilli, Monday, 16 January 2012 10:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

meisenfek, Monday, 26 March 2012 08:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

oh yeah

owenf, Sunday, 15 April 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Maybe this has already been done, but this one seems totally obvious.

dlp9001, Sunday, 15 April 2012 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Far as I know that Al Stewart song hasn't been sampled and it's a good choice.

Also loving that vivo sonhando version by Luiz Henrique. Never heard it before. Definitely stealing that one if I ever become a producer.

Moka, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Wiz Khalifa has rapped on top of Chrono Trigger so I guess it wouldn't be that out of place to sample one of the greatest game soundtracks of all time:

Moka, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Overplayed but love how the main riff sounds with strings, not quite different from the original but would still sample... I'm sure the original has been sampled many times before no?:

Moka, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

I know Soho sampled it for Hippychick and I love that one.

Moka, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Aquatic Ambience has been sampled a few times in the past year Moka

Number None, Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

would make a hard joey beltram style acid house track and sample biggie smalls saying "yo daughters tied up in a brooklyn basement" as the hook

the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

meisenfek, Saturday, 29 September 2012 11:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

I'd definitely sample Esmeray:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkEJeTAQElg

I somehow remember this one being sampled (or covered?) already, but I can't seem to find any info on it. Any help finding it?

Moka, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:25 (1 month ago) Permalink

always wanted to make a beat out of In the City by the Eagles. Apparently some dude named Agallah did it, but the production sucks.

huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:34 (1 month ago) Permalink

'Devil Woman', Cliff Richard

Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:46 (1 month ago) Permalink

Ok I'm almost 100% sure that some (american?) disco artist covered that Esmeray track at some point but I can't find any info on it. It seems Turkey doesn't exist in the internets.

Moka, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:52 (1 month ago) Permalink

It's funny that this topic has cropped up, because I was listening to some music on shuffle play earlier and 'Beggars Farm' by Jethro Tull came on (from the album This Was) and I was so tempted to sample and loop the intro.

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:17 (1 month ago) Permalink

The first 22 secs of this:

alalalalalong, alalalalalong, al alalala long long leong long long (qiqing), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 09:19 (1 month ago) Permalink


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