Rav Casley Gera

Sampling. You know the story; it’s invented, everything changes, and lazy European schmucks make cheap, easy dance music with it. Hip-hop has probably used it the most inventively, and the Beastie’s excellent Paul’s Boutique showed the potential for heavily-chopped speech-sampling to create interesting new stories & sounds.

So what’s the big deal with this well-known example of the same thing? It’s not the video, which is a bit naff, and which I only present here because I can’t find a straight mp3 anywhere. No, it’s the song itself - it’s been eating its way into my brain. It’s something about the extent of the collage - while the BB’s gave us songs with totally sampled backing, this is one of the only records I can remember that’s entirely made of samples, vocals and all - and mostly non-musical samples, to boot. It’s so effective, I can’t believe it hasn’t been done more, but no doubt you fabulous people are all going to email and me and tell me that, actually, it has, by X and X and X.

So get telling, and enjoy the video.