From: Jonathan Davis (jonathan.davis@lineone.net)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 10:54:56 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Collins" <me@thisisnurgle.org.uk>
To: <virus@lucifer.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: virus: Prince of Darkness sample
> On Thursday 22 August 2002 1:11 pm, you wrote:
> > Thanks for that Mark. I withdraw the "By far the most famous use". Last
>
> Good. I think an obscure Marilyn Manson B-side is probably more famous
than
> an obscure DJ remix of something...
I think you might be surprised there. "Endtroducing" was massive. It is one
of the best hip-hop/trip-hop albums ever produced and is suitably famous for
it.
Check out the critical acclaim:
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.80)- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential
Recordings of the 90's."
Spin (9/99, p.126)- Ranked #15 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the
'90s."
Q Magazine (12/99, p.90) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The
1990s."
Spin (1/97, p.59)- Ranked #12 on Spin's list of the "20 Best Albums of '96."
Village Voice (2/25/97)- Ranked #4 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop
Critics' Poll.
Melody Maker (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #2 on Melody Maker's list of
1996's "Albums Of The Year."
New Musical Express (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #5 in NME's 1996
critics' poll.
Rolling Stone (1/23/97, pp.62-63) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...The DJ built
songs out of layer upon layer of sampled instruments and other sound
fragments, most of which he processed, looped and re-arranged far beyond
recognition....funky rhythms that never sound like they've been cut and
pasted together..."
Spin (1/97, p.81)- 9 (out of 10) - "...layers slinky break-beats with
sampled sounds--anything from church bells to War Of The Worlds and, egad,
Tears For Fears....a cosmic-chamber feel complete with choruses of fallen
angels, plucked harps, Mellotron, and cello..."
Q Magazine (11/96, p.120)- 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...Shadow's brief is to
develop a totally sample-based idiom, weaving a cinematically broad spectrum
so deftly layered that the sampling-is-stealing argument falls flat..."
Melody Maker (9/14/96, p.49)- Bloody Essential - "...it flips hip hop inside
out all over again like a reversible glove, and again, and again, and each
time it's sudden and new. I am, I confess, totally confounded by it. I hear
a lot of good records, but very few impossible ones....You need this record.
You are incomplete without it."
JazzTimes (4/97, p.65)- "Some consider...ENDRODUCING... a broadcast from
hip-hop's near future. But that notion ignores how much this disc reaffirms
the music's creative roots....ENDTRODUCING is pretty damn good, with Shadow
demonstrating an unerring ear for motif and texture, touching on everything
from dub to funk to groove-jazz..."
Entertainment Weekly (11/29/96, p.92)- "...Unfolding lik a surreal film
soundtrack on which jazz, classical, and jungle fragments are artfully
blended with turntable tricks and dialogue snippets, ENDTRODUCING... takes
hip-hop into the next dimension." - Rating: A-
Rap Pages (12/96, p.33)- "...Innovative arrangements and structures of sound
are present here, reflecting a mind that is constantly summoning collage
forms..."
Option (1-2/97, p.73) - "...Shadow makes records the way Robert Rauschenberg
made his combines: from scraps, pop artifacts, the things other people throw
away....While some of his tracks float serenely on a cloud of jazzy phrasing
and ambient textures, Shadow always lands on his beat..."
Alternative Press (4/97, p. 70)- 5 (out of 5) - "...an undeniable hip-hop
masterpiece....DJ Shadow remembers that sampling is an art form."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000247JJ/
> > night we were trying to recall where that sample had been used. What I
had
> > in mind was the DJ Shadow version. What I was trying to convey is that
this
> > was a very widely known song and was probably the one we were trying to
> > recall. Turns out the sample is more widely used than I thought.
>
> Where;s it from originally?
I believe the sample is from the film Prince of Darkness (
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093777 ). It is a John Carpenter classic from
1987. The movie is set in a church. In the film some of the protagonists
have a "dream" in which they see footage of the church and a voice which
sounds like a radio broadcast. At some point it is revealed that the dream
is in fact a broadcast from the future (1999) where humanity has learned to
send "tachyon transmissions" back in time to people's dreams.
Regards
Jonathan
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