The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2024)

Listen to Vernon Burch’s 1 or 2 secondsget up”, and you’re back in 1990.Balance and rehearsalFrom the JBL Sound Test Album sessionand you’re back in 1999. Eddie Johns’More spells for youAnd you’re back in 2001. What, you don’t know those songs? Perhaps you’re more familiar with them in another form: chop up, pitch up and down, looping over and over again “The groove is in your heart.” By Deee-Lite “Praise you” Fat Boy Slim, and “once again” By Daft Punk. None of these hits have old recordings, clips named here, or a variety of other hits.

Three and a half years ago, few ordinary listeners knew how to build songs from other songs. Today, most of us know it as the art and art of sampling. We tend to relate it to hip-hop, and in fact we featured it here last year in an open culture track rib video on the most iconic hip-hop samples of the last half century.

However, the same channel is also available The above videoSimilarly, it breaks down the sonic components of the electronic dance hits from “The Groove is in the Mind.” I’ve always wanted to know exactly what it was in the snap.

People over a certain age may recognize all the titles of songs included in the first 20 years or so of the video’s timeline, but few after that. But they may know the body of work they sample, such as Aaron Neville, Freeze, Brian Wilson, Gladys Knight and the Pip, and Melba Moore. Over the last few generations of listeners, searching for sample sources on your favorite songs has become a reliable way to discover music from past times. Similarly, listeners may already be familiar with the music of those times, and they can hear it on tracks where children currently dance, work out, or simply “atmosphere.” Whatever your generation is, if you ask how “Get Get Ready This” has been built. You will never experience a basketball game the same way again.

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