FLA/Godflesh Sample?

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?

Could well be some synth sound that both bands used.

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…

Wouldn’t surprise me.

Possibly, but isn’t that the same song where they sample like 30 seconds of a Skinny Puppy song, directly? Leeb really is a sample whore…

Steril have also used that same sample on ‘No Remission’ from their ‘Transmission Pervous’ album. Although that came out in 1993.

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 remember there was another track where he took the blippy drum beat from Aphex Twin’s “Windowlicker” for another album…

I know he sampled Aphex’s “Ventolin” for the first track on the Implode album. I wonder if he ever had to pay up for that…

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. [:)]