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NOTES RE:SAMPLES
Always Livin: (total # of samples: 68, # of samples from records purchased for 50 cents each: 12, # of samples from Detroit 9000": 3)
Fuck the Bozos: (total # of samples: 56, total occurrences of the word "fuck" not counting "motherfucker": 15, counting "motherfucker": 25, movies sampled on this track: Return of the Dragon, 12 Monkeys, Schizopolis)
Kick to Kill (remix): (total # of samples: 29, # of samples from the Pop Will Eat Itself original: 0, # of samples of method man: 8)
Suckas Think We Owe Em: (total # of samples: 59, time that elapsed between when Derek started this and when Ben got around to working on it: 14 months, famous breakbeat in this song: Sing a Simple Song by Sly and the Family Stone)
Closer to Timbaland: (total # of samples: 46, # of nine inch nails samples: 17, # of timbaland samples: 25, # of samples from neither: 4)
William Lee (the greatest): (total # of samples: 47, # samples from soft machine and steely dan: 14, # of cut-up hip hop acapellas: 12)
Brain Cloud: (total # of samples: 22, # of samples from Ben's dad's cassette tapes: 18, # of samples of Tricky: 1)
Hard Time Killing Floor Breaks: (total # of samples: 12, The contents of this song: Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (the original and a cover), Synthetic Substitution, an 808 kick drum and a violin sample)
Future Shock: (total # of samples: 32, # of different songs called "future shock" that we sampled: 3, % future: 100)
Evil Dead Song (featuring the MFF): (total # of samples: 71, # of years between start and completion: 7, % of samples sourced from the 3 Evil Dead DVDs: 100, # of years spent using samples from VHS: 4, $ deposit we had to put down to rent the VHS: 100)
PoMo Like a MoFo: (total # of samples: 35, # of other people's turntable collages sampled: 4, favorite producers of ours that we sampled: Chemical Brothers, Dust Brothers, Jack Dangers, EPMD, the RZA, The Neptunes)
Who Owns Your Brain: (total # of samples: 111, # of abandoned tracks used as music for this track: 8, # of samples of unknown origin: 1, # of Bill Pullman samples: 3)
