Sampling

Sampling is a large part of electronic music. It can be used in a song to create interest, to create rhythm, to support a bassline, create a melody, to incorporate different genres and to remix a song. Today i will be talking about Noisy Eater by The Avalanches and the way they have created a sound completely based around sampling. And Mirage by Mome. Both of these artist use sampling in a different way to build their tracks.

The Avalanches are an australian group who have made a name for themselves by using samples to create their whole sound. Their breakthrough track Frontier Psychiatrist was made using the audio from sketch from comedy duo Wayne and Shuster and also using the samples from an orchestral rendition of a 1968 piece. Fourteen years later The Avalanches have released a second album. The song i want to talk about off that album is Noisy Eater. This song follows a storyline made by sampling narration from a children's audio book by Jerry Lewis. It also samples Petits Pas Candences by Vladimir Cosma, Zoom a Little Zoom by Tom Glazer, Our Gang Meet Uncle George from the movie The Kid From Borneo. And interestingly it also samples a large amount of Come Together by the Beatles. This is only from what i have found listed, listening to it i can also hear the opening music from Adult Swims Rick and Morty. The avalanches use Sampling to completely make their tracks. Every sound comes from somewhere else, cut up,and glued back together to make a new and completely different peice of music.

The second song i will be talking about is Mirage by Mome. Mome uses samples in this song a lot subtler than The Avalances do in their songs. You can first subtly hear a ‘vinyl crackle’ sample when the song first starts. A vocal sample is used in the buildup to the chorus it is then pitch shifted to create a hook directly before the drop. This sampled vocal is used through the whole song and is pitched to create interest and rhythm. Orchestral sound have been sampled, pitched down and cut up in the chorus. Momes use of samples in subtle and can be easily overlooked. He uses samples to support his music rather than create the arrangement from them.

References Eater, T. (2016). The Noisy Eater by The Avalanches feat. Biz Markie and Jean-Michel Bernard on WhoSampled. WhoSampled. Retrieved 14 November 2016, from http://www.whosampled.com/The-Avalanches/The-Noisy-Eater/ Frontier Psychiatrist. (2016). En.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 14 November 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Psychiatrist