The subject of litigation to ensure that some of those samples were removed for the version issued in America. And a Grammy-nominated, British house-music landmark whose blatant use of unlicensed material led to a pile of copycat releases and a short-lived bonanza for copyright lawyers.
All of this was no mean feat for what's commonly termed a one-hit wonder. That was a good education. We had to be disciplined, recording things in the right place at the right time in the right tuning, and so I'm glad I started back then. I've gone from using no computers to projects that are now totally computer-based — from total analogue to total digital — and it's been very interesting to participate in the evolving process of making things work.
He also had one of the first Fairlights and actually bought me my first sampler, an Akai, as a Christmas present. As the technology changed, we devised ways of pushing it as far as we could, often beyond what it was supposed to do.
John Fryer today. This was after Ivo Watts-Russell's bright idea of uniting electronic outfit Colourbox with dream-pop duo AR Kane to cash in on American house music and the burgeoning underground UK dance scene.
This was aside from the addition of some overdubbed guitar, for which Fryer may not have been present. I'd finish one session at six o'clock in the morning, clean up the studio and then the next guys would be loading in at around It was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom and is generally regarded as a significant milestone in the development of British house music and music sampling.
The single was the product of an uneasy collaboration between Colourbox and A R Kane , two groups on the independent art-pop label 4AD. The link-up was suggested by label founder Ivo Watts-Russell after the two groups had independently sounded him out about the possibility of releasing a commercially oriented dance record, inspired by the American house music that was starting to make an impact on the British charts.
The record The collaboration did not go entirely to plan. Once in the studio, the groups' different working methods and personalities failed to gel. Producer John Fryer found himself in the middle and unable to resolve the conflict between the two camps. The result was that instead of working together, the two groups ended up recording a track each, then turning it over to the other for additional input.
Colourbox then added a heavy drum-machine rhythm and effects to "Anitina" and A R Kane overdubbed some additional guitar to "Pump Up the Volume. The two tracks were released to UK dance clubs in July , on an anonymous white label with no artist credit. A one-off collaboration between U. Kane and DJs C. Mackintosh and Dave Dorrell, the track was a patently European interpretation of American house music and became the first big crossover U.
In , The Guardian featured the song in the "A history of modern music: Dance" playlist. The table below is a select list of samples used in "Pump Up the Volume"; also shown are indicators showing within which versions of the song each sample appears. Because of the song's legal history, samples used in the different US and UK versions vary. Copyright The image is from Wikipedia Commons.
Wikipedia Page. Martyn Young Steve Young. John Fryer Martyn Young. Hip hop. The Bar-Kays , " Holy Ghost ". Tom Browne , " Funkin' for Jamaica N. Fab 5 Freddy featuring Beeside, "Change le Beat". Chanting "Automatic, push-button, remote control; synthetic, genetics, command your soul.
Graham Central Station , "The Jam". Spirit of the Boogie , LP. Trailer to the film Mars Needs Women. Ofra Haza , "Im Nin Alu". Yemenite Songs , ST was the early stage name of GrandMixer DXT , one of the first to use turntables as a musical instrument in the s. Mean Machine was a single from and was an update of a track originally recorded by The Last Poets in The sampled portion is the drumbeat.
But they had been around since , recording and releasing a large number of pioneering soul and funk records. The instrumental Jungle Jazz can be found on the album Spirit of The Boogie and itself is linked to Jungle Boogie , released two years previously and which later became well-known from its inclusion on the soundtrack to Pulp Fiction. Positive Life is a single dating from Her first televised performance was in but the version sampled is from the album Yemenite Songs.
Arguably, the best-known of the samples, it came from a single released just a few months earlier, albeit it pre-dated the commercial breakthrough of Public Enemy. The Soul Children recorded soul music for Stax Records in the late s and early s. Trouble Funk are from Washington, D.
Pump Me Up is from the album Drop The Bomb , and has become one of the most-sampled bits of vocal over the years. Sample Introduction to the J. Fred Wesley is an American trombonist who worked with James Brown in the s and s. The J. In addition to backing Brown on stage and on record during this era, the J.
The former is another which involves a sample from the MC who is doing the introduction….. This post took about three times as long to finish in comparison to an ICA in that there was a ridiculous amount of research involved and with 21 different bits of music to explore, there proved to be a lot of threads to it, almost all of which were new to me.
Heroic effort! For that outrage alone I cannot forgive it.
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