Sampling is recontextualization. One of my favorite electronic tracks of all time, "Baby M" by Marumari is built around a Kenny G sample.
I think it can even be argued that just as mediocre novels often make better movies than great ones, mediocre songs are more likely to work as samples in tracks. If something is truly great in it's own right, sampling it either defaces it, or attempts dishonestly to ride on the back of its greatness. A crappy song often has some little bit that lends itself to recombination with new sounds -- it's funkiness being obscured in the original context. Moodyman's sampling kung fu is strong; if you know where something comes from you can recognize it, but in his tracks it's not at all what it was in the original. I especially like what he does with Marvin Gaye's voice, dropping in little fragments, so it's like a conversation where you can't hear the other person talking. On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Ken Odeluga wrote: > Nuthin really! 'I can't kick this feeling' is still amongst the best house > tracks ever recorded (imo). Jut somewhat taken aback that it does owe rather > a lot to one of the worst tracks ever recorded (imo!) >
