Care For A Sample?

This mix is my tribute to the super sample heavy poppy house tracks, largely a product of the UK Acid House scene (which was less 303 and more smiley faces). It was the age of carefree sampling. A brief period where creativity wasn’t stifled by copyright sampling law. The time was brief, even the big daddy, Pump Up The Volume, faced legal challenges. (From Stock Aitken Waterman, who likely did it to try to keep their own song on top of the charts.) Perhaps the Beasties’ Paul’s Boutique and Deee-Lite’s Groove Is In the Heart are this sample pastiche taken to it’s most commercial success. And though the wall to wall sample onslaught style didn’t last long, obviously the continuing use of sampling in dance music, and further into all music, can’t be overstated. Not every song here is a musical masterpiece, some maybe a bit silly or dated, but all fall in to this “sampling as musical lead”. The mix starts off with five of the biggest of the craft, doing their (arguably) signature songs.