DJ Shadow sample list

[Lephrenic]

BASIC Megamix:

various Hollywood BASIC songs:
Queen - "We Will Rock You (Ruined By Rick Rubin)"
Organized Konfusion - "Audience Pleasers"
Organized Konfusion - "The Rough Side Of Town (South Side)"
Organized Konfusion - "Intro"
Raw Fusion - "Throw Your Hands In The Air"
Lifer's Group - "The Real Deal"
Organized Konfusion - "Open Your Eyes"
Organized Konfusion - "Prisoners Of War"
Lifer's Group - "Belly Of The Beast"
Organized Konfusion - "Walk Into The Sun"
Organized Konfusion - "Releasing Hypnotic Gases"
ESG - "UFO"
"...hollywood", 7A3 - "Coolin' In Cali"
"hit it" & "like this", Slick Rick - "La-Di-Da-Di"
"...hollywood", Kool & The Gang - "Hollywood Swingin'"
"here come the drums", Public Enemy - "Can't Truss It"



Zimbabwe Legit (Shadow's Legitimate Mix):

Ocean - "Put Your Hand In The Hand"
Steely Dan - "The Royal Scam"
Steely Dan - "Green Earrings"
Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - "Rivers of My Fathers"
Idris Muhammed - "Loran's Dance"
The Counts - "Funk Bump"
The Fatback Band - "Let The Drums Speak"
"now I took me a trip to Africa", Doug E. Fresh - "Africa (Goin' Back Home)"
"first-rap-group-to-rock-Afri-cans", Doug E. Fresh - "Africa (Goin' Back Home)"
"glazing reflections of Africanism are coming back", Wanda Robinson - "Nobody In His
Right Mind"
"...coming back, through your sons and your daughters", Wanda Robinson - "Nobody In
His Right Mind"
"think about the brothers and sisters in Afrika", Eric B & Rakim - "In The Ghetto"
"now I told you to keep watching..now d'ya understand", Richard Pryor - "?"
"Africa", Jungle Brothers - "Acknowledge Your Own History"
"do you know what it means", King Sun - "Be Black"
"back, I don't wanna hear it...", Organized Konfusion - "The Rough Side Of Town"
"peace, brother..", Pigmeat Markham - "Here Comes The Judge"



Lesson 4:

ESG - "UFO"
Baby Huey - "Listen to Me"
Fred Wesley and the JB's - "Blow Your Head"
James Brown - "Funky President"
James Brown - "Payback"
Rufus Thomas - "Do The Funky Penguin Part 1"
Rufus Thomas - "Do The Funky Penguin Part 2"
Tom Jones - "Looking Out My Window"
Dexter Wansel - "Theme From The Planets" (45)
Incredible Bongo Band - "Apache"
Herman Kelly & Life - "Dance to the Drummer's Beat"
Johnny Pate - "Shaft in Africa (Addis)"
Kool & The Gang - "Electric Frog Pt. 1"
Dyke & The Blazers - "Let A Woman Be A Woman - Let A Man Be A Man"
Junie - "Granny's Funky Rolls Royce"
The Olympic Runners - "Put The Music Where Your Mouth Is"
Jackie Robinson - "Pussyfooter"
Lyn Collins - "Think (About It)"
Mohawks - "The Champ"
James Brown - "Cold Sweat"
Led Zeppelin - "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper"
James Brown - "Funky Drummer"
James Brown - "Soul Pride"
Magic Disco Machine - "Scratchin'"
The Winstons - "Amen Brother"
The Politicians - "Free Your Mind"
Pleasure - "Let's Dance"
Funkadelic - "You'll Like It Too"
Boobie Knight - "The Lovermaniacs (Sex)"
Babe Ruth - "Keep Your Distance"
Fancy - "Feel Good" (45)
The Brothers Johnson - "Ain't We Funkin' Now"
Dynamic Corvettes - "Funky Music Is The Thing"
Rufus Thomas - "The Breakdown (Part 2)"
Pleasure - "Joyous"
"way back", The Jimmy Castor Bunch - "Troglodyte (Cave Man)"
"last", Grandmaster Flash - "Freelance"



Entropy:

The Third Decade, Our Move:

Jack McDuff - "?" (drums)
"the moonlight shines on funky city..", Blowfly - "Zodiac Blowfly (Side B)"
"tell 'em who the fuck I am", Style - "The Assasinator"
"we sample beats you sue and try to fight us", Big Daddy Kane - "Young, Gifted and
Black"
"in the middle of a stable with a turntable", The 45 King - "The 900 Number (YZ
Acappella Vocal)"
"new", Steinski & Mass Media - "We'll Be Right Back"
"spinning on the turntables back to back", Whodini - "The Haunted House of Rock"

Count & Estimate:

Don Thompson - "Just Plain Funk"
The Meters - "Look-Ka Py Py"
Eric B & Rakim - "Eric B Is President" ** NOTE**
Biz Markie - "Nobody Beats The Biz"
"last", Grandmaster Flash - "Freelance"
"count and estimate about a thousand dead", Uptown - "Dope On Plastic"
"about 100 or more..", GangStarr - "2 Deep"
"this was a goddamn slaughter", The Genius - "Phony As Ya Wanna Be"
"next thing you know you're being buried and planted", MC Shan - "Go For Yours
('Cause I'm Gonna Get Mine)"
Skull Snaps - "I Turn My Back On Love"
BarKays - "Street Walker"

B-Boy's Revenge:

"do you have a motor? show it to me..", Bright Lights - "Motor City Funk"
"We're comin' out on the Italian tip..", from an interview with The Lordz Of Brooklyn
"rappin for the white man", Pharcyde - "It's Jiggaboo Time"
"listen up psycopath..", Master Ace - "Brooklyn Battles"
"please man, don't get with that bullshit", LL Cool J - "El Shabazz"
"that ain't shit y'all", MC Shan - "I Pioneered This"
"fuck off", De La Soul - "Afro Connection At The Hi-Five (In The Eyes Of A
Hoodlum)"
"new jacks trying to monopolize..", Grandmixer DST - "The Home Of Hip-Hop"

Back To Back Breaks:

"if a beat is not for sale then...yup we gotta have it", MC Lyte - "10% Dis"
Les Demerle - "Moondial"
Baby Huey - "Hard Times"
Simtec & Willie - "Bootleggin'"
Wilbur Bascomb And The Zodiact - "Just Groove in 'G'"
Bernard Purdie - "Soul Drums"

DJ Shadow's Theme:

"the stage is set..", the voice of Stan Lee
Bob James - "Valley Of The Shadows"
Bob James - "Feel Like Making Love"
Curtis Knight - "Hi-Low" (drums)
Richard Roundtree - "Lovin'"
Joe Thomas - "Chitlins And Chuchifritos" (bassline stab)
Southside Movement - "I've Been Watching You"
Black Heat - "Zimbaku"



In/Flux:

Jimmy Smith - "Number One"
Eddie Harris - "Carry On Brother"
David T. Walker - "Never Can Say Goodbye"
Earth Wind & Fire - "Bad Tune"
Jeremy Steig - "Howling For Judy"
Chase - "Twinkles"
Funkadelic - "Good Old Music"
Ross - "Discovery"
Dizzy Gillespe - "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac"
Eddie Harris - "Turbulence" (tripped out sounds on second interlude)
"listen" and "hear us now..", The Watt Prophets - "Listen"
"now we call on you", Earth, Wind & Fire - "Energy"
"stay strong", A Tribe Called Quest - "Footprints"
"we are a part of those concerned with change", Frank Foster - "The Loud Minority"
"meanwhile uptown, the DJ appears", from the movie "The Harder They Come"
"everybody is so concerned about heroin and marijuana...", Bama The Village Poet -
"Social Narcotics"
"so you know as well as I do that things are changing", Roland Kirk - "?"
"it's only a matter of time", Bama The Village Poet - "Social Narcotics"
"freedom", Frank Foster - "The Loud Minority"
"that's all that life is", Melvin Van Peebles - "Chippin"
"the record ends and we must begin again", The Watt Prophets - "Part-e,s"



In/Flux (Alternative Interlude '93 Version):

Jimmy Smith - "Number One"
Eddie Harris - "Carry On Brother"
David T. Walker - "Never Can Say Goodbye"
Stanley Clarke - "Concerto For Jazz/Rock Orchestra Part II"
Jeremy Steig - "Howling For Judy"
Dizzy Gillespe - "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac"
Eugene Blacknell and the New Breed - "Gettin' Down" (drums)
"stay strong", A Tribe Called Quest - "Footprints"
"these...are...those...words", Boogie Down Productions - "Stop The Violence"



Hindsight:

Al Kooper - "The Landlord"
Roy Ayers - "We Live In Brooklyn Baby"
Roy Ayers - "He's A Superstar"
Tower of Power - "Mahdi (The Expected One)"
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - "Barnes Shoots Elias" from the soundtrack to
"Platoon"
Quincy Jones - "Hot Rock Soundtrack"
"the tracks go off in this direction" - Star Wars



Lost And Found (S.F.L.):

U2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Fleetwood Mac - "Brown Eyes"
"well.. you said to me I'm out of my mind", Murray Roman - "Fairy Tale"
"now let me give you the picture of what's going down", Murray Roman - "Kitchen &
Bear"
"get high, get above yourself, look down upon yourself...", Murray Roman - "Speed Rap"



What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2):

The Growing Concern - "Edge Of Time"
Drum Session - "Shelly's Blues" (drums)
"In a few moments you will have an experience that will seem completely real..." from the
movie "Brainstorm"
"has everybody got a place to hide, is everybody warm inside", Mystic Moods - "Webb of
Jim Collage (MacArthur Park/Yard Went On Forever)"
"there's a guy out there, and the stakes are high..." from the movie "Johnny Got His Gun"
The last vocal sample, "Can you feel this? What is that buzzing? Are you now, or have
you ever, moved slowly?" is from George Lucas' "THX 1138"



What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3):

Hollins And Starr - "Twin City Prayer"
"...other states of conciousness are as real....beyond mass and energy, beyond even
energy....", from the movie "Altered States"



What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4):

Flying Island - "The Vision and the Voice Part 1 - The Vision"
"talk to me.. c'mon old boy.. lose that!..", from the movie "Deep Calm"




What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1):

Heath Bros. - "The Voice Of The Saxophone"
Shawn Philips - "All Our Love"
The Growing Concern - "Edge Of Time"



Entroducing:

Best Foot Forward:

Stanley Clarke - "Concerto For Jazz/Rock Orchestra Part II"
"hold up, hold up, before we get started", Russel Rush & Jazzy Jay - "Cold Chillin' In
The Spot"
"guess who's coming", Sparky Dee - "He's My DJ"
"it's", Jeru The Damaja - "You Can't Stop The Prophet"
"shadow", JVC Force - "?"
"back again", Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - "Poison"
"just your favorite DJ savior", Masters of Ceremony - "Dynamite"
"using and confusing beats that you never heard", Stezo - "It's My Turn"
"since... 1990", Lifer's Group - "Real Deal"
"put a smile on your face like Ultra Bright..", Divine Sounds - "Do Or Die Bed-Stuy"
"your just fessin...", Beastie Boys - "The Party's Getting Rough"


Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt:

Jeremy Storch - "I Feel A New Shadow"
H.P. Riot - "I Need You"
Lexia - "I Worship You"
"from listening to records I just knew what to do.." from "Music Makers - Percussion"
a record from 1974 that was provided to schools as a public service by
Chevron/Standard Oil Company of California.
"what makes cancer tenacious..", Signs Of The Zodiac: Cancer - "Planetary
Motivations"


The Number Song:

Metallica - "Orion"
Tony Alvon & The Belairs - "Sexy Coffee Pot"
Pearly Queen - "Quit Jivin"
Pink Floyd - "On The Run" (movie version from at Pompeii)
Jimmy Smith - "8 Counts For Rita" (drums)
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - "?"
The first "1, 2, 3, 4, 5", T La Rock - "Breakdown"
"what is this", A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick It? (Spirit Mix)"
"listen to this, just..listen to this, just..listen" & "we want y'all to understand...one, two,
three, and..", Grandmaster Flash - "Flash It To The Beat"
"who got the number, guess what, I got the number", Pigmeat Markham/B.Y. and the
Turnettes - "Who Got The Number"** NOTE**
"won't you please let me, rock your mind", Grandmaster Flash - "Freelance"
The "louder" countdown near the end, from the movie "Wild Style" - Fantastic Freaks
@ The Dixie
"the party's already started...", The Troubleneck Brothers - "Back To The Hip Hop"


Changeling:

Tangerine Dream - "Invisible Limits"
The Meters - "Here Comes the Metermen"
Kay Gardner - "Touching Souls"
Kay Gardner - "Inner Mood I"
Motherlode - "Hard Life"
Embryo - "Klondyke Netti" (bassline)
"he cried, he cried, and he cried ... rained 40 nights ... played lots of chess ... made
lots of friends .. and he wept every time it would rain", Loudon Wainwright III - "The
Man Who Couldn't Cry"


Transmission 1:

"this is not a dream...", from John Carpenter's film, "Prince of Darkness"


What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4):

Flying Island - "The Vision and the Voice Part 1 - The Vision"
"talk to me.. c'mon old boy.. lose that!..", from the movie "Deep Calm"


Untitled (Track 6):

Human Race - "Grey Boy"


Stem:

Nirvana - "Love Suite"
"..I tell ya children I could lay right down..", The Mystic Number National Bank -
"Blues So Bad"


Long Stem:

Giorgio - "Tears"
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. - "Oleo Strut"
"Parking tickets, you're crazy.. so they take me in on a chain to long beach.. I am
scared", Murray Roman - "Freedom"


Transmission 2:

Pekka Pohjola - "The Madness Subsides"
David Axelrod - "The Human Abstract"
"..latitude..", from the movie "Silent Running"
"this is not a dream...", from John Carpenter's film, "Prince of Darkness"


Mutual Slump:

Bjork - "Possibly Maybe"
Motherlode - "Soft Shell"
Pugh - "Love, Love, Love"
Roger Waters and Ron Geesin - "Seven Dwarves In Penis Land"


Organ Donor:

"..playing a funky solo", Samson And Delilah - "There's A D.J. In Your Town"
Giorgio - "Tears"
Bill & Tim - "PM Or Later"


Midnight In A Perfect World:

"insight, forsight, more sight...", Organized Konfusion - "Releasing Hypnotic Gases"
Rotary Connection - "Life Could"
Meredith Monk - "Dolmen Music"
David Axelrod - "The Human Abstract"
Pekka Pohjola - "The Madness Subsides"
Baraka - "Sower Of Seads" (bass line)
"the midnight rush", Akinyele - "Outta State"


Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain:

"well hello there little buddy. come on in. what ya got there with ya. is that your
dog..." from the movie "The Aurora Encounter"
Joann Garrett - "Walk On By"
Fantastic Epics - "Fun & Funk Part 2"
Charles Bernstein - "Moment of Truth"
Tyrannosaurus Rex - "Pon A Hill"
Daly-Wilson Bigband - "My Goodness" (guitar)
Billy Cobham - "Funky Kind Of Thing" (drum roll)
"testify", The Original Soul Senders - "Soul Brothers Testify"
"napalm, when the bombs activated...", BQ In Full Effect - "Let the Homicides Begin"


What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit):

Alan Parsons Project - "Nucleus"
Heath Bros. - "The Voice Of The Saxophone"
Shawn Philips - "All Our Love"
David Young - "Joe Spilivigates" (drums)


Transmission 3:

"this is not a dream...", from John Carpenter's film, "Prince of Darkness"
"it is happening again...", episode 15 of "Twin Peaks"



Midnight In A Perfect World (Extended Version):

Meredith Monk - "Dolmen Music (Overture)"
Rotary Connection - "Life Could"
Meredith Monk - "Dolmen Music"
David Axelrod - "The Human Abstract"
Pekka Pohjola - "The Madness Subsides"
Funkadelic - "Wars of Armageddon"
Baraka - "Sower Of Seads" (bass line)
"the midnight rush", Akinyele - "Outta State"
"what happened.. what happened that night?", from the movie "Jacob's Ladder"

[LuKo]

"Lesson 4:

ESG - "UFO"
Baby Huey - "Listen to Me"
Fred Wesley and the JB's - "Blow Your Head"
James Brown - "Funky President"
James Brown - "Payback"
Rufus Thomas - "Do The Funky Penguin Part 1"
Rufus Thomas - "Do The Funky Penguin Part 2"
Tom Jones - "Looking Out My Window"
Dexter Wansel - "Theme From The Planets" (45)
Incredible Bongo Band - "Apache"
Herman Kelly & Life - "Dance to the Drummer's Beat"
Johnny Pate - "Shaft in Africa (Addis)"
Kool & The Gang - "Electric Frog Pt. 1"
Dyke & The Blazers - "Let A Woman Be A Woman - Let A Man Be A Man"
Junie - "Granny's Funky Rolls Royce"
The Olympic Runners - "Put The Music Where Your Mouth Is"
Jackie Robinson - "Pussyfooter"
Lyn Collins - "Think (About It)"
Mohawks - "The Champ"
James Brown - "Cold Sweat"
Led Zeppelin - "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper"
James Brown - "Funky Drummer"
James Brown - "Soul Pride"
Magic Disco Machine - "Scratchin'"
The Winstons - "Amen Brother"
The Politicians - "Free Your Mind"
Pleasure - "Let's Dance"
Funkadelic - "You'll Like It Too"
Boobie Knight - "The Lovermaniacs (Sex)"
Babe Ruth - "Keep Your Distance"
Fancy - "Feel Good" (45)
The Brothers Johnson - "Ain't We Funkin' Now"
Dynamic Corvettes - "Funky Music Is The Thing"
Rufus Thomas - "The Breakdown (Part 2)"
Pleasure - "Joyous"
"way back", The Jimmy Castor Bunch - "Troglodyte (Cave Man)"
"last", Grandmaster Flash - "Freelance" "

Lesson 4 is classic

[Hep]

umm, who let thecat out of thebag?

[Lephrenic]

Changeling:

Tangerine Dream - "Invisible Limits"
The Meters - "Here Comes the Metermen"
Kay Gardner - "Touching Souls"
Kay Gardner - "Inner Mood I"
Motherlode - "Hard Life"
Embryo - "Klondyke Netti" (bassline)
"he cried, he cried, and he cried ... rained 40 nights ... played lots of chess ... made
lots of friends .. and he wept every time it would rain", Loudon Wainwright III - "The
Man Who Couldn't Cry"

I don't hear it.

That's one of my favourite Meters tunes and I don't hear it anywhere in Changeling. If it is there, it's certainly not the drum track.

[MR B]

umm, who let thecat out of thebag?

hehe

[RK]

Changeling:

Tangerine Dream - "Invisible Limits"
The Meters - "Here Comes the Metermen"
Kay Gardner - "Touching Souls"
Kay Gardner - "Inner Mood I"
Motherlode - "Hard Life"
Embryo - "Klondyke Netti" (bassline)
"he cried, he cried, and he cried ... rained 40 nights ... played lots of chess ... made
lots of friends .. and he wept every time it would rain", Loudon Wainwright III - "The
Man Who Couldn't Cry"

I don't hear it.

That's one of my favourite Meters tunes and I don't hear it anywhere in Changeling. If it is there, it's certainly not the drum track.

Agreed...I can't pick it. Anyone??

[scattermish]

jesus motherfucking h christ...
i don't think i've seen it all in it's entirety like this before!

[Lephrenic]

Main drum break from The Number Song. Somehow didn't make the list.

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

(I want to punch that goddamn singer. Yes, you're great but you're singing over the break! GRRRR!!!)

[Lephrenic]

And the Changeling break. (Metermen, my arse)

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

[tactik]

hmm.. I wonder how it all came out.

I think finding the sample-clearance info wouldn't be that hard if you work at the label etc....

Makes me realise that as it has been a while since I started digging, I have very little idea of exactly where some (many) of my samples have come from = no releasing instrumental hiphop for me

[J0rdz]

Geeezarz!

Where'd you guys source all of this? Would be keen to find out how it was released.