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Wednesday, Apr 22 2015, 6AM
A set of Erik Satie samples, with samples all day in honor of Earth Day. Re-use and re-cycle.
surrealist yuppie, urban faery, aspiring warrior poet: actuallygrimes.tumblr.com
A set of songs sampled by Moby -- this from "Honey" off of Play.
"Find My Baby" features samples from the Boy Blue recording "Joe Lee's Rock."
Moby sampled heavily from the collected field recordings of Alan Lomax: research.culturalequity.org
"Natural Blues" features samples from the Vera Hall recording "Trouble So Hard" from 1937.
Adell Hall Ward, an African American folk singer better known as Vera Hall, was born in Livingston Alabama April 6, 1902. More on her at the Library of Congress: www.loc.gov
The original sampled in A Tribe Called Quest's "Can I Kick It?"
"Can I Kick It?" also contains samples of "What a Waste" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, "Spinning Wheel" by Dr. Lonnie Smith, "Dance of the Knights" by Sergei Prokofiev and "Sunshower" by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band.
The original for Public Enemy's "He Got Game."
A little more on A Tribe Called Quest and Public Enemy's sampling: sirjfryman.wordpress.com
NWA's "Express Yourself" samples Charles Wright & the Watts 103 Street Rhythm Band's hit "Express Yourself" from 1971.
KEXP is highlighting re-use and recycling all day today for Earth Day by playing songs with great samples, along with the originals. This is the basis for N.W.A.'s "Express Yourself."
"As We Enter" contains samples of Mulatu Astatke's song Yegelle Tezeta.
A little more on Mulatu Astatke and Ethiopean jazz: www.discogs.com
Superfly has been recycled and re-used over and over. Some of them coming up.
Renegade Soundwave sampling Curtis Mayfield's "Little Child Running Wild."
Renegade Soundwave using a Mandrill sample "By the Time I Get to Arizona" three years before Public Enemy sampled it.
"Paper Planes" was written by M.I.A. and Diplo with a backing track sample from "Straight to Hell" by The Clash.
T.I.'s 2008 song "Swagga Like Us" also samples "Straight to Hell."
Features Mick Jones on lead vocals -- shortly before he left/was dismissed from The Clash.
"The Globe" samples "Should I Stay or Should I Go." Mick Jones sampling himself.
British rapper Dizzee Rascal sampling "The Big Beat" by Billy Squier.
KEXP is highlighting re-use and recycling all day today for Earth Day by playing songs with great samples, along with the originals.
Van Morrison covering Bob Dylan. Morrison on his first encounter with Dylan: "I think I heard The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in a record shop in Smith Street. And I just thought it was just incredible that this guy's not singing about 'moon in June' and he's getting away with it... The subject matter wasn't pop songs, ya know, and I thought this kind of opens the whole thing up."
