The history of specific sounds in electronic music

maybe this would be a good thread for me to ask: anyone know the source of this fingersnap?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urJ-WiHw1yk&

maybe this would be a good thread for me to ask: anyone know the source of this fingersnap?

I think that may be a gated Linn-9000 sidestick. I remember reading that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis came up with that sound on the Linn-9000 for Janet Jackson's "Funny how time flies". It sounds like it's gated through some kind of reverb with a long decay.

One sound i like to know the origin of is this

The FM rhodes + <insert> pad sound heard in mid-to-late 80's to mid-90's R&B ballads

Example

Sherrick-Just Call
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xfzp_sherrick-just-call_music

Very difficult, partly because of the quality of the clip. As you say, it sounds like a DX 'Rhodes' mixed with a synth string/pad. With the introduction of MIDI it became routine to mix sounds together (both being triggered off the same sequencer track), so the pad component of this could be off another DX (or from another part on the multitimbral TX816), OR from another MIDI-enabled synth of the period.

Someone has answered my thread from months ago...

by the time the DX7II came out, the DX-7 Rhodes +<Insert Pad> sound was standard presets on it. After 1986-87, you were hearing that combo on more songs which was at the same time the DX7II came out. Other digital synths did this as well.

Did the little 'laugh' sampled at the beginning of Yaz' 'Situation' appear first in that song or is it originally from somewhere else? I hear it all over the place in house music.

Okay, this is now driving me crazy! I'm almost certain that the laugh comes from some earlier tune, and that I've heard this tune, but I can't figure out what it is. Maybe some of you might know the answer, you can hear the laugh at 0:21 in the video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/wPiMbg4yVWk&fs=1&hl=en

― Tuomas, 12. heinäkuuta 2009 14:49 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Turns out the laughter indeed originated from the Yazoo song, the reason why I thought it sounded so familiar is because it's been sampled in so many tunes (including "Macarena").

Anyway, this question has been bugging me ever since it was posted in another thread:

Okay, theres this one sample of a crowd I can't quite describe, but it's pretty lo-fi, and is just kind of chattering and laughing. It's featured prominently in "Merrily We Roll Along" by Datach'i, and somewhere in "Maple Leafs" by Jens Lekman (I think it's that track), on the very end of "Return of The Gangster" by Outkast, and other places (I think I heard Belle and Sebastian used it too, but don't know).

Either way, what the hell is this sample that has been used so prominently, especially for something that's a just a field recording.

― mehlt, 23. marraskuuta 2007 5:05 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I listened to the Datach'i song, and I couldn't hear it there, maybe it was the wrong song? But you can definitely hear the same bit of crowd chatter on the Jens Lekman and Outkast tunes Mehlt mentions, and I think they both must sample some relatively well known record, otherwise it would be pretty odd for such an insignificant sample to appear in two very different songs. But I haven't figured out what the sample source is.

good idea for thread

This thread was originally inspired by people discussing the famous synth sound used in remixes on Robin S.'s "Show Me Love" and Nightcrawlers' "Push the Feeling On", so here's an example of the same Korg M1 preset sound used on a tune released in 1989:

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

You can also hear that sound, briefly, on the William Orbit & Mark Moore remix of Prince's "Batdance", also from 1989. Both of these are fairly obscure though, so I think it really is either the MK remix of "Push the Feeling On" or the Stonebridge remix of "Show Me Love" that popularized that sound... But both of those remixes are from 1992, and I can't find any info on which of them was released first. Does anyone know?