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mc marsh Escribi�:

On the chemicalbrothers.net site, there are two versions of the lyrics to 'Elektrobank'.

Hey, the Chemical Brothers here, they wanna hear more sound...

One version of the lyrics said: Hey, the chemical brothers here, they knew all about soul...

:-?

The second makes more sense to me. And he says "another soundcheck"... ;-)

GLAKO-FAHN Escribi�:

Me too...



.. I'm gonna have a fanatical for the Chemical Brothers! Y'AL

I think it's waht c-row said

I'm gonna have"another soundcheck" for the KemiKal brothers!

i think it is practically impossible to tell 100% accurately what kool herc is saying at the start of elektrobank, mainly cos it is so distorted and also cos hes sayin live stuff off the top of his head, so to speak, so it probably doesnt all make sense any way.



i can remember in an old interview the chems saying that a really famous rock song is sampled on dig your own hole but it is so mangled no one can tell where it is.



anyone know what song they sampled and where it appears?



my guess is the slowed down distorted bit at the end of elektrobank... just an idea but if you slow down the opening riff from smoke on the water to about quater speed, mess around with the notes a little, and a add some delay and filtering you get a similar sound? ;-)

I think so too dope coil. I bet the outro of electrobank is a slow down rock song with some additional notes added to it. I was listening to it the other day and i realized that it makes some noises as if it is saying something(am i making sense here)

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NOW I REMEMBER----THE FAMOUS ROCK SAMPLE THAT DOPE COIL IS TALKIN BOUT IS IN MUSIC:RESPOSE----I THINK IT IS "...what you want ....what you need...."

Right, erm, on Dig Your Own Hole..

hey what's up?



first time poster here and been a fan of the chems since i exited out of my mother's womb back in '97. a few things i can clear up that have been mentioned in this post...



1. the bassline in block rockin' beats is the rhythm portion from 23 skidoo's "coup," but the actual bass licks themselves are from a song called "the well's run dry" by the crusaders. you can hear the bass licks on the beastie boys album paul's boutique, on track 15 (should be during "dropping names" or when they're rhyming about "you're world is all black, you're world is all white, then you should be getting color of your life, now right?"). tricky shit.



2. someone mentioned the chems sampling a big rock song in the track "dig your own hole." the first four bars of the song are from the bob james song "take me to the mardi gras," but backwards. most of you know those are the beats from Run DMC's song "Peter Piper" and most recently Missy Elliot's "Work It."



3. The slowed-down drums during the breakdown of "Elektrobank" are from the Odetta song "Hit Or Miss," which can also be heard in the DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist mix"Brainfreeze" and countless other late 80s/early 90s hip-hop songs.



hopefully that clears some stuff up! i look forward to posting here with you all! :)



chris

Cheers mate, this really clears up alot. :P

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Holy shit..... Try all that stuff to those tracks, its freakin' amazing!

I had no idea thats how they made that wicked sound in DYOH.. Sounded like a filtered bassline...

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It mostly depends on the length and how good you can recognize it I think. And since no one ever could point out where it came from... ;-)

i pretty much agree with chris's ideas for samples. nice to know where the sampled bass hit for block rockin beats came from! one thing tho, i'm pretty sure that the drums on dig your own hole are programmed by the chems themselves from various hits e.g. a kick sample, a snare sample. u can usually tell a sampled break and the break off dyoh sounds to crisp and upfront...just a thought

anType Escribi�:

But they didnt write that the "sample was taken from..."...

Isnt that........illegal?

in terms of sampling, it's all up to the artist if they want to clear the sample or not, and it's also up to the sampled artist if they want to be credited in the booklet, cd insert, etc. i bet the chems did clear the samples, but like i said, it's up to the sampled artist if they want to be credited in the album insert. they probably got paid (bob james, etc.), but they could care less if their name was in an album inlay. bob james has been sampled so many times that james himself has a hard time spotting songs that have sampled his work. everyone from Run DMC (peter piper) to DJ Shadow (his work with UNKLE and one of his earlier song called "shadow's theme) to hip-hop artists have sampled his music. his albums are hit or miss to some. he was big on the 70s jazz label CTI, and is also credited for the theme song to the 70s t.v. show "Taxi," if any of you are familiar with that.



and in terms of myself spotting the samples in their songs...yes, i consider myself to be a BIG chems fan. i have a ton of their stuf on vinyl (everything from the 2x12" elektrobank promo that plays at 45 and all their 'electronic battle weapon' 12"s...the legit ones, too. not those shitty bootlegs. and everything in between), plus i am a DJ who mixes all types of music, not just one genre. it keeps my mind open to new things. i'm also a beathead...i dig in the crates for records. that's how i figure out these sorts of things.



this board looks cool and i've wanted to start posting here for awhile, but never took the time to register...until now! :)



looking forward to interacting with you all.



chris

It so cool to have an actual Dj post stuff. That way we can all ask questions which bend our minds

That would explain the Block rockin' beats - Ya Mama ordeal... Norm Tom n' Ed are good buddies; it was probably just a nice favour.

That could be it

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