If dance music absolutely had to have a _"best dance track ever"_ nominated, it has to be this one. The reason being it crosses so many genres efffortlessly; drum & bass, guitar-based music, Northern Soul, hip hop, it hops between so many different musical styles at the one time. Absolute genius, there will never be another song like it.

The "Rockefeller" vocal that repeats throughout the song is also a sample, and it was found! The vocal sample comes from a Jay-Z song. Here's a breakdown video from the Sample Hunting KZread Channel. Found by bistro kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5uptcqlnsWoYLQ.html

Fatboy is a master of Sampling without a doubt.

This used to play in a Fifa game I played as a kid, would spend ages in the menu just to listen to it.

The fact that Fatboy Slim failed to pay the artist responsible for his most important hit... is somewhat made up for by the fact that the royalties paid to other artists on this track added up to 100%, meaning Norman Cook took home nothing either.

@KarlBoltzmann

8 ай бұрын

I've never heard that before. Do you know this for a fact? Unless you know something that I don't, his record label would have paid the owners of the master recordings to use the main samples (that payout would have amounted to a pittance compared to the amount the track eventually made) or alternately they had a contract written up with a percentage split for the master usage.

Amazing, as always. Thank you very much for these breakdowns!

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Semyon!

And don't forget that Jay-Z sample from 'Who You Wit II' that actually has the 'Rockerfella' vocal sample!

@KarlBoltzmann

2 ай бұрын

That sample came out a couple of weeks after I made my video.

super entertaining and informative. great samples.

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Carrie!

This is so interesting to me. Thanks for making this! I loved this song when I was a teen! Edit: I didn't know about the 'I Fought the Law' sample. Neat! (I've seen another video talking about Rockerfeller Skank.)

Really enjoyed the video Karl! To my ear, the rising pitch after the slowdown sounds like a small piece of the sample is being triggered by an LFO that is being sped up - as the LFO gets faster, it takes on its own audible pitch. Of course that's wouldn't be the only part, because there's still layers and artifacts of the slowed down sample in the mix too, but that's my guess.

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Love it! That's a great theory. Not too far from what I was doing there, but automating it like that would be the smart thing to do. Splicing up samples like I demonstrated slows down modern daws to a crawl. I can just imagine what would happen if you tried do that on a system from the 90s.

@AureliusR

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann It also sounds like he put some flanger or phase shifting of some kind to give it that spaced-out trippy sound

Awesome breakdown, thanks Karl!

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks Scott! Long time dude. Hope things are good!

Awesome, underrated channel

@KarlBoltzmann

5 ай бұрын

Wonderful deconstruction,! Thank you , Karl for this video. Lots of inspiration for music producers. To deeply understand the nature of everything we got to know the roots. I just wonder why this video have so less views. God bless!

@KarlBoltzmann

2 ай бұрын

Cheers, thanks!

Awesome recreation as usual!! I also have contributed to the samples of this track because I find the low guitar sample that you can hear at some points of the track originally from Twistin' and Twangin' by Duane Eddy from 1962 that is also on WhoSampled Btw the Join The Gang drum break is definitely used in Rockafeller Skank, I checked some months ago by comparing, the drum loop is pitched up and chopped very well... I would love to see a Gangster Trippin remake for the next FatboySlim recreation ! This is one of my favorites ever, I also did a remake of it some time ago, it was really fun to do :)

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Thomas! Yeah, I ended up focusing a lot of time on some other elements like the cymbal FBS uses on that album, but it ended up not working quite right, so it didn't even make the final cut. Interesting note about the Bowie sample. You probably have a better ear than me, but I'm not hearing it to the point of certainty. It's just such a mashup of different sounds compressed so heavily that I can't be 100% sure. Maybe he's admitted to using the sample somewhere?

Wonderful and interesting video, thank you! I find it so fascinating, as a non-musician, how these musical tapestries of all these individual songs get created to make a whole new work of art. I’d love to see one on “Praise You” as well.

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Thank You! It's so much fun to recreate these tracks. Praise You is on the list! Should be out in a month or so.

Really liked your beastie boys deconstruction video! i would like it if u made more!

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

I've got some Paul's Boutique deconstructions on the burner. Should be done soon.

Great video, Carl. In terms of the slowdown/time-stretching, I believe he used an Akai S950 and not C-Lab Creator.

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Cool! Do you have more information about that?

@KalebLudlow

Жыл бұрын

Turns out he used both according to Karl's recent stream! Info from the man himself

Sorry if I missed it, but I haven't seen anyone figure out the voice saying roc-roc-roc-afeller at 14:08 and Norman dodges that one quickly in the video you're probably referencing where he breaks these down himself.

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately no! I did take some time trying to figure it out. I took part of the stems that were revealed in that interview, slowed it down, reversed it. Just couldn't get a handle of where it might have come from. But like you said, by the way he dodged the question in the interview, it's clearly something that would be recognizable.

@alexmusic9989

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann oh I have some great news for you mr carl. It was found

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

@@alexmusic9989 Thanks Alex. I did hear that yesterday. Going to check it out in a bit.

Useless trivia, the Housemartins broke up over musical differences in the band. Norman wanted to take them in a dance direction, while lead singer and guitarist Paul Heston wanted to maintain their jangly pop sound. Out of the ashes came 3 amazing artists: Beats International, the Beautiful South, and of course FBS.

@PurpleTT99

10 ай бұрын

More useless trivia, before the Housemartins, he was in the Stomping Pondfrogs. I was in Norman's (real name Quentin) class at school, I was in a mediocre school band too. We shared a drummer called Chris Lang who is a successful screenwriter. FWIW, Keir Starmer was in the same class.

Fascinating, thanks! Has anyone been able to ID the 2nd vocal sample that first comes in around :45 and acts almost as a counterpoint to the guitar? It's always driven me a little nuts being unable to decipher the syllables (always sounded like "Rapid slowmoose" to me haha) or figure out the source.

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I really wanted to figure that one out! I did my best to find it, slowed it down/sped it up, reversed it. There was an interview where you could hear a piece separated but it wasn't enough information to source it unfortunately.

Nice work … I could never figure out parts he supposedly sampled from Bowie . You seem have nailed all the parts . Any chance of you sharing this project with me .., Would love hear more Fatboy slim deconstructions . Amazing work as alway dude Thanks

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ken! You and I both with the Bowie sample. As much as it sounds alright layered over Sliced Tomatoes, I am not at all convinced that the Join the Gang sample is what he used. The amount of drum layering going on in Rockafeller, combined with the downsampling and overall compression, make it almost impossible to distinguish any details. It's almost just noise. And yes, give me a couple days and I will upload the set!

@kenbolger1137

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann thanks 🙏 Yes Norman loved to layer samples . It’s over 20 years and still So many unknown samples in some his big hits . But guess if he spilled beans the sample lawyers would come knocking . Would love you to do fbs-praise you deconstruction , you have a fantastic ear .

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

​@@kenbolger1137 Oh, for sure. There are many samples buried in those tracks that we'll likely never know for clearance reasons. And thanks for the suggestion. I will tackle Praise You in the near future!

@kenbolger1137

Жыл бұрын

This guy also made some amazing deconstructions . kzread.info/dash/bejne/g3-quc6jZbWTcdo.html

@kenbolger1137

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann HI Karl if you get chance please share upload this abelton project

Love for you to do the Norman Cook Brimful of Asha remix

@KarlBoltzmann

7 ай бұрын

That was a pretty well used mix. I'll check it out and see if it's doable.

Huh, the opening of Soup was also sampled by Dirty Heads in the opening of their track That’s All I Need.

He used AKAI sampler‘s…. That’s how he did the digital stuff C lab pretty much just did the sequences everything else is played as individual slices or hits on a multi sampled instrument program, on the Akai. I think if you had redone this video, and used a hardware sampler from Akai Which could’ve been anywhere from an S 900 to an S 6000 would’ve worked on the S 3000 3200 XL,… Best video ever. I really did n joy it though. …. Its the funk soul, brother

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

It would be very cool to recreate with the original hardware! My understanding is that he used the S950. Wish I could make that video. Maybe sometime in the future I'll get my hands on a hardware sampler.

@RWL2012

4 ай бұрын

2 S950s.

12:34 whats that?

@KarlBoltzmann

2 ай бұрын

If you're talking about the vocal sample, it was discovered after I made the video that it was from a Jay-Z record.

@damagedbug8848

2 ай бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann ah cool I've always wondered if you ever come across the track again send it my way

Heh. You want a challenge? Deconstruct Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, in all of its entirety. XD

@KarlBoltzmann

Жыл бұрын

I was and am working on Paul's Boutique! I wanted to get the Dust Brothers on my channel to talk about the album and go through it with me. Maybe one day.

since when was it cool to have zero bass in your voice? seems right wing :D