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[symbioidlj]

I may have posted this before, but wanna ask again, since I don't recall any responses(if I did post), or maybe I never posted it...

What do y'all think of this as a concept.

An online database with a user community filled with music lovers(to be more precise: sample based music(ie: hip-hop, some IDM, etc...)

Now, many people may know where a specific sample was taken from, and they can share that knowledge by adding it to the database. The song where the sample is(possibly with time-markers given to show where the sample is), and the source song could be listed.(also a time-marker to show what part of the song is sampled, perhaps)

I think this would be a unique resource on the net. How many times have you wondered what a sample was, or if some samples are taken from the same place.

One thing I'm thinking of in particular: The song by Aphex with the whole "I want sex" part, where the ladies are talking, and one says "What is it, what are you talking about?"... In Deltron3030, there's a voice, similar to one of the two ladies on that track, who says "I know perfectly well what it is your talking about" Is this from the same source? Maybe some people know...

But a community could add so much more power to this.

Cooler would be the ability to give samples of each track so each person can hear the source and sample.

Would any of you join such a community? Would you go out and seek some sources just to add them?

Comments

[zboson.livejournal.com]

I am the Queen Identifier of samples and I would totally love to share my sample-identifying talents with people who might actually appreciate them instead of finding them annoying, or even pedantic. It's because I watch a lot of strange old movies with heavily-sampled dialogues. (However I do not know about the sample you've mentioned, sorry!)

Also, I would like to know where a lot of them came from, particularly "it's like living in a warzone" from a Pigface track. I actually saw the thing it was sampled from a few years later, and have since forgotten, and now it's driving me crazy. Also, the woman's voice reciting names of English counties or something, which I've heard on two tracks by two completely different artists.

I wish samples were always credited, but they aren't, frustratingly enough. A lot of online lyrics databases work the same way, and I know I myself have spent a number of hours transcribing lyrics just to fatten the base. So I think your idea is smashing and would do very well indeed.