10 samples you might recognise (and where to find them)

[@meadowshorerecords8138]

Oh my god! The Eternal Sunshine one! Honestly I have spilled tears to that song, thank you so much for this.

[@Psychlist1972]

My brain kept completing the songs. That first Mellotron groove got "We no speak Americano" stuck in my head afterwards.

[@k-leb4671]

I don't think We No Speak Americano actually uses those samples though.

[@kingcoveryepic]

@@k-leb4671 sounds quite similar tho

[@thetwistedsamurai]

3:50 Oh my god. The Goofy Goober theme for the Spongebob Movie Gamecube game. Wow.

[@flashdawnx]

the-twisted-samurai it’s also been used in SpongeBob episodes as well, but in much higher quality

[@StuCupid]

It's also the Media Molecule youtube intro

[@earthlingwithnoideas]

And the Old Man Patrick title music.

[@sealy1]

@@StuCupid I KNEW I RECOGNIZED IT FROM LBP

[@GinoZump]

And the Taskmaster incidental music

[@HyperObjeckt]

That E-mu Shakuhachi sample is all over 90s-2000s dance music. Cool video!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Definitely. Became an insider joke!

[@beltube]

i can't hear it without thinking of 3rd Strike :P

[@Iwantapplez109]

it's also in the ST-01 sampledisk, which was bundled with the Ultimate Soundtracker software for the Amiga, hence so many tracker .mods use the shakuhachi flute, it's basically become a quite used sample (with Pizza, a pizzicato from a D-50, being the most used).

[@lydvicious6495]

Apparantly C418’s Stal samples are on here

[@kevysheetz]

also C418's Chirp used one of those old Optigan loops

[@c0rseyt]

*in jschlatt voice* I WANT HIM GONE. I WANT ANTVENOM GONE.

[@c0rseyt]

@@marioifherealin2013 did my childhood hero just call me bipolar?

[@marioifherealin2013]

@@c0rseyt yes, yes he did.

[@grande1900]

@@kevysheetz Bossa Nova to be exact

[@Psychlist1972]

So *that's* the Terminator sound!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Funny isn't it! I did a BIG video on the entire Terminator score and it got pulled for copyright. It's currently surviving on Facebook. It does into dozens and dozens of the sounds in the score and how to recreate them. facebook.com/AlexBallMusic/videos/vb.1924932524499141/690101771388975/?type=2&theater

[@MarinaACNH-official]

​@@AlexBallMusic Caro Emerald also used this Foxtrot sample in her song *Stuck* 0:03

[@chitsb]

Ok the T1000 fact BLEW my mind! 😮

[@AlexBallMusic]

Funny isn't it! Got a video coming up that breaks down the rest of the sounds in the T2 score. Should be up before the end of the month.

[@chitsb]

Alex Ball so I had to find out more about this and came across an interview where the music composer (also keyboardist for Hall & Oates) said he used a brass band for the T1000 sound. No mellotron used. Still, this effect is really cool!

[@chitsb]

www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/terminator/53753/brad-fiedel-interview-composing-terminator-2s-iconic-score

[@AlexBallMusic]

Exactly, yes the T1000 is a brass sample called "brassfall12" from the Fairlight as shown in the video. There's a whole heap of other sounds Brad Fiedel manipulated in his Fairlight CMI III for the T2 score. Will all be covered in my next video.

[@pauloquist6150]

@@AlexBallMusic Did not know that brass fall sample stems back to the Farlight. I own that exact sample on a Roland JV unit or Emu library sound.

[@razzerraw1108]

The whole world needs to know you exist!!!

[@alessandrodecarli2462]

Yeah, that's true!!!!

[@Sneakycat1971]

RazzerRaw www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libraries/nord-sample-library-archive/mellotron

[@amrkoptan4041]

too much effort for too little reviews, this is a great video !!!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Amr Koptan Thanks for the nice comment!

[@WASZCZI-WASZCZI]

@@AlexBallMusic why no tracks that use samples? Would be much more satisfying

[@AlexBallMusic]

@@WASZCZI-WASZCZI Because I'd get a copyright strike. I've explained that in the video description.

[@RabbitEarsCh]

The Optigan shows up absolutely everywhere in incidental music if you listen closely. Music for cartoons and original advertisement music is a huge playground for the Optigan these days.

[@almagenes]

amazeballs 2:38 that sample has been eluding me for years, and that song is wedged deep in my mind (along with the rest of the movie) I was also curious about the Sledgehammer shakuachi sample thingy, thanks!

[@audiodood]

amazing balls

[@chitsb]

I’m convinced that a lot of these samples have been used in Bollywood music too.

[@OliKember]

Fascinating how long we have been sampling and remixing for. I knew it happened in RnB but had no idea that Eternal Sunshine used loops. Or that they recorded loops back in the 1970s! Todays orchestra in a box is a really logical progression that I now feel much more at ease with, so thanks! Everything is a remix!

[@AlexBallMusic]

+Oliver Kember Yeah really interesting finding the sources of these. The Mellotron rhythms are from way back in the 60s! Great British Pathe film that shows them in action here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpXOmquXrc-Nea8 I'm also beavering away at a Brad Fiedel T2 cover and have been tracking all the sounds down that he used. I didn't realise one of the early orchestral sample libraries was the Prosonus series that loaded onto Fairlight, Emulator, Sinclavier etc and it was recorded way back in the 80s. Also love that the T2 score was one guy with sample libraries and a sequencer, 26 years ago. Something we take entirely for granted now.

[@OliKember]

Alex Ball Oh wow, great to know about T2. One of my favourite films. Thanks man! Good luck with it. Look forward to hearing.

[@joshuagrahambrown]

The T1000 one was incredible to learn and I expected that to be the coolest takeaway from this video, but then you threw Owner Of A Lonely Heart at me straight after. And then rounded it out with It’s Not Fair!

[@mintybudgie]

bruh when i hear the "cha cha" sample i immediately think of the papa games why

[@Fluteboy]

_Cha-Cha_ also appears at the end of _Magic Pie_ by Oasis.

[@anthonybrett]

Great video Alex, love my samplers! Totally underrated device nowadays with the analog resurgence but sampling is a form of synthesis that goes under the radar too often, even old romplers can be used to create amazing "new" sounds.

[@skarajmusic]

Brassfall12 is on the Triton LE, I hit the lowest note one evening and my mind was blown - couldn't believe that was the secret to the Terminator 2 soundtrack (though I don't remember if I watched your video on it prior to discovering that, so maybe it was like a subconscious thing. Either way it was really cool)

[@NikStratus]

Foxtrot sampled by Kelis for Trick Me; no one ever spoke of this particular instrument in school! Peter Gabriel for Sledgehammer... WOW

[@thomasdebercey1709]

Actually, the "Orchestral Chord" from EMU's Emulator wasn't used in "Owner of a Lonely Heart", it was sampled FROM "Owner of a Lonely Heart". JJ Jeczalik (a regular session player for the song's producer Trevor Horn, who would later go on to form the Art of Noise with him and several others) sampled the record "Kool Is Back" by Funk Inc. (relevant section is from about 1:47-1:57) and used those samples throughout the track (particularly in both the intro and the lead-in to the guitar solo). The orchestral hit comes from that record. The EMU sample featured here is sampled from "Owner of A Lonely Heart", during the breakdown where Yes' main vocalist Jon Anderson yelps on top of the "Kool is Back" sample.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thank you for clearing that up! Gets a bit confusing because samples can be transferred from machines. I've got the JJ Jeczalik "Art of sampling" collection and the drum fills from the opening of "Owner of a lonely heart" are in that collection but at a different tempo. I assume he sampled those from somewhere and used them in that record too?

[@thomasdebercey1709]

Did you not read my comment properly? I said in the comment that JJ (or somebody else) decided to sample a few tiny bits and pieces from Funk Inc's "Kool is Back" (the drum fills and horn stab) and use them in "Owner of A Lonely Heart" (JJ would later also use the same stab sample in various other tracks, including the Art of Noise's "Beat Box"). Speaking of which, I bought the "Art of Sampling" sample pack yesterday on AMG/Samples-Now's website and I can confirm that the aforementioned stab is in there... twice in the same section! First as "Hip Hop Brass Stab" (which, with a bit of reverb, compression and stereo imaging, sounds exactly like the one used in the original song) and the second as simply "Stab" (which sounds like a dryer, more cleaner version of that Funk Inc/Owner stab). It also doesn't feature the "Yeeow!" vocal on top of it, plus it's taken directly from JJ's Fairlight sample library, so you know it's legit. I won't share the samples here because I actually have a brain when it comes to copyright laws, but you can 100% trust me on this one.

[@AlexBallMusic]

@@thomasdebercey1709 You said "samples" so I didn't twig that that included those drum fills too. I thought you were just referring to the stabs. Re-reading it, I can see that's exactly what you were saying as you refer to the intro of the song, which is where those drum fills are. Interesting that they just helped themselves to samples and then in turn, got sampled. The OOALH sample with "yelp" is on commercially available libraries. So there's three copyrights in the same recording going on there!

[@neilbradley]

@@AlexBallMusic The "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" string hit being discussed is from a Fairlight IIcx called KoolStab. I own a series III with all of the IIx libraries and then some.

[@rnbsteenstar]

Kool is back came from the LEL dr-8

[@goatprince1]

Those mad lads at SEGA sampled "Cha Cha" for Billy Hatcher. I'm pretty sure there were at least a few other Optigan/Mellotron samples in that game as well, most notably in "Volcanic Orchestra".

[@Nogayara]

Nº3 is sampled by King Crimson btw

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Holy SHIT, I've been looking for the Sledgehammer sample for the LONGEST time. Thank you!!

[@mogmason6920]

1:50 PRETTY GREEN EYESSSSSS!

[@loop-e5423]

Brassfall 12 at 1:12 was used the the track "Mambo Lad" from the often overlooked DS game Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure.

[@TerryCooperYT]

Always wondered what the 'Cha Cha' one was -I've heard it in a few places, commercials etc, but the first time was in Neil Gaiman's 'Mirrormask' film, where the weird old lady puts it on her gramophone. quirky and brilliant.

[@therealmattstarr]

My goodness, #7 is stunning

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yes, one of my favourite uses of a sample ever!

[@therealmattstarr]

I can't stop listening to it@@AlexBallMusic

[@ShoHidari]

That Shakuhachi is also used in SF3 Third Strike! Crowded Street, Twilight, and Killing Moon!

[@dingo-gorditas]

Why do some of these seem kind of nostalgic when i never heard them?

[@rexjolles]

The low quality, the crackling and fuzz, after all they were recorded onto a thin see through record, you would put in an organ type thing and play music with it

[@BogusNoise]

You may well have heard them in the background but only taken them in subconsciously, so they remind you of the time they were used more frequently

[@moahammad1mohammad]

Half the music industry wouldn't exist if these samples weren't available

[@stagergamer4172]

3:58 was sort of used in the "we're cargo movin' people" from the Norfolk And Western company

[@gumse666]

I think that "Moving Strings" appears on VROOOM by King Crimson

[@cs0rpc]

Moving Strings was used by King Crimson on VROOOM before Eels.

[@woffyreal]

caro emerald uses the mellotron a lot wow

[@noyoureaspoon]

yo this was a pretty cool video! thanks for showing the different loops!

[@GenesisLZH]

The sample from 3:18 was used in the little big planet karting intro just speed it up to 1.25 and it sounds the same. here by the way if you wanna hear it kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJWkhn-Mp61jiqc at 10:17

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yep, Daniel used Optigan and Mellotron loops all over that score.

[@coenjeanweightmanmonaghan25]

That crowded house one shocked me a bit. But it's pretty cool

[@fabiodolci847]

Champagne music from Optigan is also on "Circus of becoming" from Steve Hackett's album " To Watch the storms"

[@slayerdude18]

the t-1000 theme always plays in my head when im hunting someone in a pvp game weird enough it gives me a more menacing focus than i normally have if im relaxed

[@robert.dexter]

Nashville Country from Optigan also used as background music of 80s Indonesian comedy show called "Warkop DKI"

[@cosmicaddress7851]

Great video! the T1000 I had no idea!

[@SuperShadow]

1:50 best one

[@beeswithchainsaws]

brassfall12 is also in Mario 64

[@thetwistedsamurai]

1. is also Beatophone by Caravan Palace.

[@chrissheppard8351]

0:32 This sample was used in a few songs and in a new commercial for Saks!

[@thebiggerbyte5991]

Brilliant stuff!

[@patbrownastoria]

Hah, I started to feel tense during #4, especially when the actors pics showed up!

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

I am not quite sure on this, but I think the Orchestra Chord (#6) was originally on the Synclavier and the EMU 2 version seems to be a port. EDIT: Hang on, it was even earlier - on the Fairlight CMI.

[@k-leb4671]

2:08 How is that an orchestra chord? I feel like the way more prominent aspect of it is the "Yeeow!", like it's part of a James Brown song or something like that. I'm not convinced by E-mu Emulator's labeling of it.

[@gamingwithcallum6087]

It was sampled from the 1983 song Owner Of A Lonely Heart by the classic rock band Yes. It’s the lead Singer Jon Anderson saying “yeeow!” Over an orchestral one

[@dhu2056]

2:19 This seems to come from Bach BWV 999 but in a major key. It may explain why the sample is called "Guitar in 4-4"

[@AlexBallMusic]

Very interesting! Thanks.

[@tadasstrazdas]

1:57 recognised the sample. If tuned up, and delay added, it’s the sample from the beginning of “hip-hop hooray”

[@subtracktion]

1:50 - "Shakuachi" can also be heard at the very beginning of "Hip Hop Hooray" by Naughty by Nature. Also, I know I have that same sound on an ASR-10 floppy disk. I can't recall the name of the instrument or the collection it's from, though.

[@JohnKerans]

That EMU orchestral chord in number 6 makes me think of the beginning of Bad by MJ

[@effyiew7318]

The Emu Shak also has a big part in the middle of "To live and Die in L.A." - the movie.

[@ZeroesandOnes]

The Eternal Sunshine was incredible

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks. Had loved that soundtrack for years, so was really amazed to find those samples. I always thought it was something they'd recorded specifically for the film!

[@ZeroesandOnes]

Yeah same - I assume there was no funny licensing issues with it?

[@AlexBallMusic]

They were discs that came with the I instrument and were effectively preset rhythms like those on later cheap keyboards, but the difference being that these are real recordings with bags of character. The German session musicians who played them seem to be unknown and have never tried to make a claim. They've been used on loads of things, so seems they did a buyout for use in the instrument.

[@ZeroesandOnes]

Interesting!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Pea Hicks is the guy. He dedicated years archiving and researching these machines: optigan.com

[@lewisjones4158]

Excellent examples!

[@GinoZump]

03:30 and in the theme for the game Use Your Words

[@JhorellXyzeus]

0:10 Also in Stuck by Caro Emerald

[@CreepyT]

#8 is used in the intro to Version City by The Clash on Sandanista. There are a number of samples used all over that double album.

[@jakobole]

And you used the 2. sample on "Hanging Out" on your first album :)

[@PutYourArtyAwayWalter]

King Crimson used the Cha Cha track quite a bit during their improvs in 1969 with Ian McDonald playing.

[@robfriedrich2822]

Something, like the Optogan Choirs is found in Yamaha Tyros 4, 5, Genos and the way of drum and guitar loops is found in Ketron SD 9.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Interesting. I know these loops and sounds crop up in various sound banks. The Nord keyboards have all the Mellotron sounds and loops for example.

[@wantedwario2621]

1:49 Its the sound from Paleo World! Literally ever scene transition uses this bit through the whole documentary series

[@brightestblue19971]

Moving Strings was used for the intro to King Crimson - VROOOM and VROOOM VROOOM!

[@RobertDorschel]

joy in finding this

[@patbrownastoria]

Singing Rhythm is also in the intro to a Clash song, Sandanista.

[@patbrownastoria]

Sorry, a song on the album Sandanista

[@arkfnoahdjproducer433]

Thanx !!! I have made a rmx of foxtrot ❤🎵🎼❤💗💗🎼🎼🎵💗🌏🌏🎵🎵

[@colonelaid5206]

Beautiful video

[@alianshampoprisioners7056]

I love this section

[@solidevil2639]

3:19 this sample is also used in Version City by The Clash

[@SmitWesson10]

1:50 Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death

[@cromulence]

Those Champagne music samples were also used by Dru Masters for some Taskmaster music!

[@verybadmusic]

Sounds like Nashville Country is also used by Ratatat on Gipsy Threat

[@AlexBallMusic]

Amnesiac Just checked that song out. Definitely is the Nashville Country loops. Nice spot!

[@RavenTeamGyatt]

4:16 The end sounds like it was also used for the Henry stickman distraction dance

[@kiancashel8667]

thats just a regular western lick......

[@galleryofrogues]

Number 10 is also the basis for the main loop in the RATATAT song Gypsy Threat!

[@philippezsiga1125]

The Emulator was not used on owner of a lonely heart . The sound was sampled inside a fairlight. And it s not a factory sound from the fairlight. Confirmed by Peter Vogel and Trevor Horn

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks, I've heard the same since doing this video some years back. The confusion started because this sample came _from_ a bank on an original Emultor II. But it transpires it was likely sampled and then sampled again.

[@thromboid]

Ah, I'd wondered where that Optigan "Singing Rhythm" came from! I also know it from Michael Penn's "Like Egypt Was".

[@isuckatnames6078]

"Moving strings" reminds me of old WB cartoons

[@koinpusher]

Foxtrot also used in sonic heroes' level Hang Castle (normal)

[@michalvrbnak]

oh, I love the waveforms being "drawn on paper" like this - did you make them and animate, Alex, or is this some particular DAW making them cartoonish?

[@AlexBallMusic]

Just a setting in Cubase to make them look that way.

[@electropunkzero]

That Terminator 2 sound is so epic

[@Helterskelter4]

Moving strings were also used at the start of Sinner by Neil Finn

[@theShoop]

4:00 To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine dAaAay......

[@crashfan9997]

Amazing video! 4 blew my mind. I came here for sounds like no.4 and no.5.

[@philippezsiga1125]

nice discovery about Terminator.

[@Zendarkos]

@4.14 remembers me of one modern music

[@APH1991]

First sample also sounds like Yves Klein Blue - Polka.

[@APH1991]

The Nashville one also sounds like Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man.

[@railpressureflip]

2:38 OMFG Its Memoryhouse - Lately!!!!!!!!!

[@FlyingVMartin]

2:10 So, that isn't Jon Anderson himself high pitch yelling

[@AlexBallMusic]

What's confusing is that samples were copied from library to library and from machine to machine. That sample made its way into the Emulator II factory library, but it seems its origin is a combination of a stab and Jon Anderson from what people say, but I've never ratified that. Does sound like Jon.

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Fantastic! Thanks :-) Thumbs up.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks!

[@aardbeiwastaken]

I'm a Cubase user too!

[@TraxtasyMedia]

if split and chop the sound of the champaign music you get the Cantina Song from Star Wars

[@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129]

I was just watching an episode of Bob's Burgers, Synchronized Swimming, Season 2 Epiosde 3, and there was a scene where Linda had a fantasy and the Mellotron Cha Cha played and I immediately paused the episode and came here

[@zacharymorin5696]

“Singing Rhythm” is also sampled in the Clash sing “Version City”

[@AlexBallMusic]

Excellent spot! Never heard that one before.

[@ShynxFX]

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike mentioned 🔥

[@rnbsteenstar]

The brass falls were used in some Cheiron tracks.

[@OrbitJFly]

0:31 BILLY HATCHER

[@MichaelBlueMusic]

Interesting!! Any idea where the creepy background noise on Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk” came from? It’s in the background at the very beginning in the official video.

[@arman2774]

Id say thats just a loud echo from the crowd put on repeat

[@MichaelBlueMusic]

@@arman2774 no, it’s been used in other songs, I was thinking it could’ve been a sample making the rounds with the Fairlight or Synclavier folks.

[@arman2774]

@@MichaelBlueMusic I’ve never heard it elsewhere, which songs have you heard it in?

[@MichaelBlueMusic]

@@arman2774 Leslie Phillips, Expectations, it comes in at about 3:00 and plays the song out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pV7diIuBrMyljNksi=rmdKKefCxsKd2rmi

[@MiguelReyesMotifEs]

El loop final de "Deseos de cosas imposibles" de La oreja de Van Gogh pertenece al Mellotron (Piano Movie Strings)