when i gave a presentation on sampling for a public speaking class in college i played the amen break, then slowed it down to show it was used in Fuck Tha Police, then sped it up to show it was used in the powerpuff girls theme song
Shared DNA in Music
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#13Wow this is super cool!
They primarily used the genius.com API, which I didn't know existed. Anyone built any other cool projects with it?
Is there a "discovery" player that plays your own Spotify library, but shows you all related tracks by sample, interpolation, cover, etc from the Genius API that you can explore? Kind of like a wikipedia rabbithole, but for music?
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#14Reminds me of 'Wonder Riff' by Baterz, although it's mainly about arguing with David Whiffler about how it's not actually a copy of Stevie Wonder, just slightly similar. Good fun Aussie pub-rock vibe tho I reckon it's great:
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#15I once had the realization that a riff from Metallica's "The Four Horseman" was the same as that from Tom Petty's "Last Dance With Mary Jane" except, as I learned several years after the realization, it is actually the riff from "Sweet Home Alabama" which was introduced in a session as a joke by the guitarist to make fun of the drummer for having narrow musical knowledge. He was correct in his assumption that the drummer wouldn't recognize it, and it was included in the final version of the song.
The story: https://youtube.com/shorts/nY6CPOtN47w?si=K_9EKvKGbgnuGKSg
The riffs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2V6HbSkAD5g&pp=ygUgZm91ciBob3J...
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#16when i gave a presentation on sampling for a public speaking class in college i played the amen break, then slowed it down to show it was used in Fuck Tha Police, then sped it up to show it was used in the powerpuff girls theme song
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf9Jptq7VY
The presenter chose different songs, but the concept is the same.
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#17Great great project, as usual by the pudding
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#18In a similar vein, I maintain a website[0] where users can submit songs that sound like other songs. Several times this has helped me figure out where I’ve heard a riff or melody before (when it’s not a direct sample, which I usually find on whosampled.com).
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#19when i gave a presentation on sampling for a public speaking class in college i played the amen break, then slowed it down to show it was used in Fuck Tha Police, then sped it up to show it was used in the powerpuff girls theme song
This is my favorite video on the Amen break from about 20 years ago that explains the history and more of the context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
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#20Wasn’t this Pandoras original claim to fame - that they used 30 or 40 different aspects of music to categorize music and help you find what you liked?
The secret to Pandora is to never give thumbs up but religiously thumbs down anything you don't like. Then it's constantly searching for new things you like related to the original theme!
But also, yes that was the original thought process.