The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2023)
Oh man this is so great: electronic music sample breakdowns from 1990 until the present day. The visualizations on these are fantastic — just watch a bit of the first one (Groove Is In The Heart) and you’ll see what I mean. They’re not all that great (some of these producers are out here working harder than others, is what I’m saying), but these are some of my favorites:
- Groove Is In The Heart by Dee-Lite (Eva Gabor Green Acres sample!)
- Firestarter by The Prodigy (sample from The Breeders?)
- Praise You by Fatboy Slim (It’s a Small World from Mickey Mouse Disco? Fat Albert Theme?!)
- One More Time by Daft Punk
- Robot Rock by Daft Punk
- Archangel by Burial
- First of the Year by Skrillex
- Girl by Jamie xx
- Pick Up by DJ Koze
- leavemealone by Fred again
Is DJ Shadow electronic? I would have liked to have seen something from Endtroducing… but maybe they couldn’t even locate the samples. 😂
I could have also gone for more Daft Punk, but I guess you need to let others have a shot. Luckily the same channel has breakdowns of a few more Daft Punk tunes from Discovery and an extended breakdown of One More Time.
Also from the same channel (and even better IMO): The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973-2023).
See also The Making of Burial’s Untrue.
Discussion 6 comments
I love how I go into these thinking, yeah, here we go, same old, and then I discover something like Firestarter sampled the fricking Breeders? You what now? I mean, it tracks...
I saw this YouTube video a while ago about DJ Shadow samples:
https://youtu.be/FpbWz7QvJAo?si=T2rlB9k2pI9R8brA
The Song Exploder episode with DJ Shadow is pretty cool. “Mutual Slump” features a prominent Bjork sample.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/song-exploder/id788236947?i=1000378727239
A little extra work, but I'd love timestamps on your few featured ones above. For example, Praise You starts at 7:25 and is particularly impressive: https://youtu.be/FpaoCUEhZJM?t=445
Oh my god this is the greatest thing.
Here's more on the sampling on Daft Punk's Discovery.
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