So I’m struck by a fit of insomia this morning and decide to make a random playlist, fire up some Fallout 2, and beat some ass. Well, sometime between killing a bunch of slavers and killing some little kid that jacked my power fist, Godflesh’s “Pure” starts playing. Awesome. However, immediately after that, Frontline Assembly’s “Outcast” comes on and I realised they both have the SAME drum/“oomph!” sample throughout. Seeing as how both records came out in '92, one sampling the other is improbable at best.
So my question is: Anyone know where this sample comes from?
Bill Leeb is a well-known sample whore. He has been known to take entire sections of other songs, sometimes 30 seconds at a time (Skinny Puppy’s “Worlock” comes to mind) and put them in his works. I remember there was another track where he took the blippy drum beat from Aphex Twin’s “Windowlicker” for another album…
I’m pretty sure its a sample of Eric B and Rakim who were in turn sampling James Brown. At least that’s what I remember reading when Pure came out. That FLA would sample it too is simply a coincidence I think, and Outcast is a good song for them.
Der Bleeb might be a sample whore, and his skillz with the cd player are not in doubt, but he is a shrewd businessman naming his band Front so it would be right next to Front 242 in cd bins. I’m sure more than a few music shoppers have accidentally discovered FLA this way. Early FLA I enjoy up until Tactical Neural Implant which may be the finest album of its type spawning a whole slew of imitators ironically.
I’m pretty sure its a sample of Eric B and Rakim who were in turn sampling James Brown. At least that’s what I remember reading when Pure came out. That FLA would sample it too is simply a coincidence I think, and Outcast is a good song for them.
Excellent. Thanks for the info.
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Der Bleeb might be a sample whore, and his skillz with the cd player are not in doubt, but he is a shrewd businessman naming his band Front so it would be right next to Front 242 in cd bins. I’m sure more than a few music shoppers have accidentally discovered FLA this way. Early FLA I enjoy up until Tactical Neural Implant which may be the finest album of its type spawning a whole slew of imitators ironically.
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No doubt. Heh, during my first spin of “Tactical Neural Implant,” about halfway through “Gun,” I realized that this album is every Funker Vogt album ever made. [:)]