Stoney Sampled pt 1 – Feat The Amen Break, Stardust, Dislcosure & Fatboy Slim

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Stoney Sampled pt 1 – Feat The Amen Break, Stardust, Dislcosure & Fatboy Slim

Back in February Prefix found via the amazing whosampled.com community database that “Change The Beat” by Beside is the most sampled song of all time featuring in at least 1299 songs. So we got thinking one, how great is the music history lesson that is digging through samples and two, what are some of the biggest and best samples used in dance and electronic music.

So without further adieu we arrive to Stoney Sampled a quick jam for your lunch break giving you that ‘Eureka’ moment of learning where some of your fave tunes were born from. This isn’t a countdown more a first of short playlists featuring popular and more obscure sample jams that we’ve digged up, with more to come! Any personal favourites, anything we missed sound off below we want to hear what you’ve got stashed in your crate.

• The Winstons – Amen Brother – Breakbeat appears at: 1:27

Famously known as the ‘Amen break’, this break is the birth of so much music, whole genres even in a mere 6 seconds and 4 bars with it’s ride cymbal and universally distinctive snare drum. In the early 90s “the producers of what was coming to be known as jungle found a number of old breakbeats that suited their needs…As these beats began to crop up in more and more records—they were, in the parlance, “rinsed”—fans began to recognise them, and to compare the ways in which producers had manipulated them to generate distinct effects.” (via the economist)

A producer or an artists take on the Amen break has become a sort of chorale so every few years it sees a rebirth as the new generation picks it up into what they’re doing passing of the baton like here, let’s see what you can do with this.

• Chaka Khan – Fate – Sample appears at 0:03

You know what it is! Extensively sampled by the Supergroup Stardust’s (aka Daft Punk feat. Benjamin Diamond) only release ‘The Music Sounds Better With You” the original jam features on Chaka Khan’s third album ‘What Cha Gonna Do For Me? ‘ released in 1981, sampled by a range of disco and pop acts but they all pale in comparison under how Stardust appropriated this jam. Daft punk’s catalogue is littered with samples from the disco funk and early electro era’s and must do exploration for any music fans.

• Gary Numan – M.E. – Sample appears at 0:00

Where’s your head at?! Here the boys from Brixton Basement Jaxx sampled the riff from Gary Numan’s ‘M.E.’ into their essential anthem alongside another Gary Numan track ‘This Wreckage’ a fitting tribute to the electronic music pioneer.

• Eric Thomas – TGIM Episode 30 Rope A Dope – Sample appears at 4:22, 6:21, 4:56

You’ve been hearing that voice in the club for a whole now hey! You can find samples, the thing that sets your track into another territory all together from the most perfectly unexpected places even the world of motivational speaking. Eric Thomas aka the hip hop preacher found a pretty prosperous pair of fans in Disclosure as they took his words and sampled them into the intro of their debut album as well as their banger ‘When A Fire Starts to Burn”

Mickey Mouse Disco – It’s A Small World – Sample appears at 0:04

Had to end this round with a weird one. Fatboy Slim is a master crate digger, his crates are stacked to the ceiling and there’s no argument there from anybody but, boy does he find some of his samples in some strange places! Did you really think the funk hook when his classic ‘Praise You’ kicks in that it originated from an official Disco Version of It’s A Small World via Disney? Find some pretty amazing things in the strangest of places.

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