Sample Spotting: 'Pump Up The Volume'

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a quick search on Google hasnt revealed much, but from time to time it comes back into my head and i would really like a list of all the tracks and/or references sampled by M/A/R/R/S in this track...can anyone supply one?

― blueski, Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i know Public Enemy's 'You're Gonna Get Yours' and SAW's 'Roadblock' are in there and are self-evident....god knows what else tho

― blueski, Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Ofra Haza "Im Nin'alu"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Incomplete

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely "I Know Ya Got Soul"?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

huh - it's weird that that link didn't list the Eric B. and Rakim vocal bit that lends the song it's title.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously, Coldcut, somewhere.. or else Ninja Tune would have never existed.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To explain, I think the Ofra Haza and Eric B. and Rakim samples were the basis for Coldcut's lawsuit against M/A/R/R/S, hence all the money from the settlement/royalities/etc. which pretty much propelled their career..

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

wait - what? I remember that M/A/R/S/S song being out when I was in high school in the late 80s, are you saying Coldcut put out something similar before M/A/R/S/S and then sued them...? I didn't even know Coldcut had been around that long. What's the deal?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I would also like this explained!

― Lek Dukagjin, Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Coldcut's "Paid In Full" remix was released shortly before "Pump of the Volume" me thinks, so the connections between the samples are pretty clear. Granted, I've been googling for the details, and it's a bit of a struggle... so hopefully someone else knows the real deal.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Coldcut have been releasing records since 1987 as I recall.

Question: can a band really sue over a sample that they sampled in the first place? Sounds pretty dodgy to me...

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

SAW's attempt to ban the song was pretty much a way of stopping it knocking Rick Astley off number one, IIRC. Oddly enough, it's exactly 15 years ago - "Pump Up The Volume" was, boringly enough, number one in the last chart to be unveiled on Tuesday lunchtime, and in the first chart to be revealed on a Sunday evening.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

of course SAW failed in their attempt, but they did stop sales of the M/A/R/R/S record for long enough that "Never Gonna Give You Up" stayed at number one a week longer than it would otherwise have done - classic 1987 double-standard venture capitalist tactics (cry free-market until someone steals YOUR tactics, then clamp down on them with a draconian heart)

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Question: can a band really sue over a sample that they sampled in the first place? Sounds pretty dodgy to me...

Yup!

Of course, if you don't have clearance yourself, it isn't very wise to do so.

Come to think of it, it may make more sense if it was Eric B. and Rakim and co. who sued M/A/R/R/S, and perhaps Coldcut fought for a chunk of that settlement, since it was their remix in question?

Hmmmm... with the SAW involved as well, very interesting story here that someone knows but obviously none of us here do!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Some interesting stuff here: http://www.evo.org/4ad-faq/artists/colourbox/m-a-r-r-s.txt

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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