That's what DJs do. It requires a great deal of effort to pick the right samples and match them up together to form a song that is, for the most part, unrecognizable from the source material. The JSRF and the JSR soundtracks were almost entirely composed by DJs using the same method. Unless you're just talking about the Sonic CD cases...then all I can say is musicians sample other works all the time.
The similarities between Sonic CD - Little Planet and 808 State - Pacific State are widely known but I also discovered this track by Quadrophonia. This has got to be the gayest song I have ever heard and I fucking love it... but it sounds a bit like Eggman's SA theme.
Here's one for Colors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Q1YpRhwqI vs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wBaWsJvdx8
My perspective is that DJs are fine for the club, but the fact that some hold concerts...like Tiesto, play nothing but repetitive bleeps, bloops, and beats. What happened to actual music COMPOSITION? I know DJs work hard and it's an art, but I still have a bit more respect for those that actually know how to compose music from scratch.
Is it already known that : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqfr_ZOhWjY Blatantly uses a sample of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVNbbXfJObo ?
Sonic Advance - Secret Base Zone Act 1 Super Mario Land 2 - Wario's Castle Anybody else noting a similarity here? I can't get it out of my head!
Still have that complete set of sample sequences in WAV format from the sonic rush soundtrack (which I think I must have got from here somewhere) and with it you can hear each individual sample much easier, for example I found the files based on that Looney Tunes cartoon in metal scratchin' and sure enough you can even hear the background music from the cartoon in the samples. The song also appaers to have samples (the 'doom dat! voice) taken from the Prodigy's Charly, though they may of got the samples from some where else. the laugh in this track is also from a prodigy song but I can't remember which one, but it echoed at the end of the song I'm thinking of...
Something no-one ever noticed: John Farnham - You're the Voice + Sonic 2 gamegear crystal egg zone John Farnham - You're the Voice (1:16 Seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oawfn73Va6M Sonic 2 (GG) Crystal Egg Zone (0:16 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DliGQksubdM ...yeah, I noticed this the first time I played Sonic 2 gamegear
Listen closely to the percussion after the intro and throughought the song. It sounds nearly identical to the drum set used in Sonic 1/2, and heck, the beat reminds me of a Sonic level.
I was listening to Cee Loo Green - "F*** You" and I was reminded how similar the 4-note background melody and the bassline is to S2 EHZ. So I made a mashup on Audacity, and it kinda fails :v: http://kiwi6.com/file/e5fmqbyg10 (Glee's version was used)
Not sure if this is relevant, but Sonic Rush wasn't the first game to sample Malcolm X saying "Too strong", a shit SNES licensed game 'Bebe's Kids' used it for it's final boss.
Why does this keep happening?! Stuff like this is driving me crazy. I think they actually want us to figure this obscure stuff out on purpose. The Hip Hop/Rap scene does this alot, but apparently it's still common practice for certain video games as well. A random ass line from a Looney Tunes episode? Seriously???
NOPE. You are wrong with the source. Here is the real one. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxEkgMIHF_E[/youtube]
These samples (or the songs or productions they're derived from for that matter) wouldn't be recognized as something of significance if it weren't for the fact that they were sampled. Those parts are significant because they were sampled, that's all there is to it. They were taken from their original, unknown context lost to time and its originally held obscurity and given a new identity in a newer, more familiar context. Meaning derived from meaningless: it happens, and Sonic's no exception. Case in point: Mama Luigi. YTP lives off stuff like this that gets singled out from the rest and thus given superiority for the sheer fact that it's used so extensively. Samples, YTP; they share the same underlying concept of selective resurrection (not this kind). In layman's terms, they're just that good. Be honest, would you have ever heard of, or even liked, Work That Sucker to Death had Hataya not sampled its vocals for Sonic CD, or would you still be a fan of 88 State had Ogata not sampled some of their sounds? Would you even give a rat's ass about Dreams Come True had Sonic 2's Ending not been an instrumental of Sweet Sweet Sweet? However, as more people use it, the source is lost and rumors are spread. You know, kind of like how PicklePower's error in forgetting the Competition Menu being replaced for Sonic & Knuckles Collection (and next to no one fixing that detail before I intervened) is the reason why the "Conversion difficulties" rumor is as strong as it is. Whether we like or not (or rather, whether we're aware of it or not), we have an inherent responsibility to uphold that history remains unblemished or simply exists in the first place, or else we lose sense of time altogether. Connections have to be made, and they're not gonna make them for us. Learning that the connection exists is worth it, though, for as they say, knowledge is power.
