============================================================================== Ye Orbe Sample Indecks, updated 4/12/93 Nearly all this info is second-hand. It's just whatever people posted to the net in response to my query. Much of it is anecdotal, nay, apocryphal. Some entries are better-substantiated than others. It's sorted by song but not in any order. "General" denotes entries that apply to Orb music overall; a question mark means that I don't know which song the sample is found in. References to "I", "me", "my friend" denote the individual contributors, and do NOT mean me, Richard Karty, the person who compiled this list. I took off the names of the contributors for brevity's sake. Maybe I shouldn't have; oh well. Please send me additions and corrections. Sources of 808 State and St. Etienne samples would be nice too. Especially from Ancodia or Cobra Bora (I think) the "L-O-V-E love! What I got - is what you need./Spreadin' love all over the world/Right here! right now!" Enjoy. Richard Karty karty@cs.washington.edu =============================================================================== Blue Room - the dialogue: "I feel like a million bucks...The flight director says get back in", or something to that effect: from Gemini 4 during which the first spacewalk took place. The astronaut was so enthralled by the experience that he wouldn't get back into the capsule. You can put money on this one: I have a recording of that actual space flight. (R.K.) Blue Room - female vocal is from the song "The Creator" by Sister Aisha. Blue Room - Quentin Crisp's short vocal statment entitled "Stop the Music for a Minute" is heard at 36:00 on the longest version. This piece can be found on a record of short vocal pieces called "Miniatures" on Pipe Records, and I think also on the compilation "Pillows and Prayers" on Cherry Red records. U.F. Orb - the alarm sounds at the beginning are from the Woody Allen movie "Sleeper" U.F.Orb (at the very end) - "Happy birthday, Mr. President" - Marilyn Monroe (duh) Little Fluffy Clouds - The voices are those of Rickie Lee Jones and Levar Burton from the TV show "Reading Rainbow". Levar is also heard in Orbital's track "The Moebius." Little Fluffy Clouds- The main melody is taken from a Steven Reich track called "12 Guitars", [or is it Electric Counterpoint?] performed by Pat Metheny. It comes in at 1:15 on the album version of "Fluffy". This song was used also in the live version of "O.O.B.E" on Volume 5. little fluffy - The harmonica 30 seconds into "Little Fluffy Clouds" comes off of Ennio Moriconne's soundtrack for "Once upon a time in the West." O.O.b.e. (live) - see little fluffy clouds. O.o.b.e. (live) - The loud bells that you hear at the beginning (That is, after the William Tell Overture), accompanied by a calming, hypnotic type voice, are sampled from the first track of the Tape Beatles CD. o.o.b.e. - The speaker mentions Teillhard de Chardin's noosphere. A Huge Ever Growing - the title comes from an episode of a British sci-fi TV show called "Blake's 7". The episode is called "ultraworld" and it's pretty bad. most of blake's 7 is pretty bad, but in a good way. this is just bad in a bad way, although there are a few cute moments... A Huge Ever Growing - the "loving you..." female voice is Minnie Ripperton doing her song "Loving you." It was a hit in the 70s. A Huge Ever Growing - a choral sound "ah-ah-ah" is from "Slave to the Rhythm" by Grace Jones. A Huge Ever Growing - Peel Session version - guitar riff from Pink Floyd's "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" at 1:33 and 1:38. A loon at 7:00. (See 808 State Pacific for more info.) Backside of the Moon - Peel Session version - "Yahoo!" is from the movie Dr. Stranglove. The cowboy guy riding the bomb. Assassin - The downward-gliding sparkly sound may be from one of the songs on side 2 of Kraftwerk's Autobahn LP. System 7 "Sunburst" - The "Oh yeah, I'm caaaaalllllling youuuuuuu.." is -not- from the AT&T comercial, but from a song called "Calling You" from the soundtrack for "Bagdhad Cafe". Perpetual Dawn - At about 1:00 and 1:50 in "Perpetual Dawn (january mix 3)" there is a bit of "Dueling Banjos", the song from _Deliverance_. At 2:50, some more banjo music is played, which may be from later in the song. And finally at about 7:00 they play a few notes from it again. Star 6&789 - on the "Perpetual Dawn" 12" (US) has the OXY10 commercial sampled at the end....[what about the version on the UK "Adventures"?] Towers of Dub - "Marcus Garvey called..." - apparently it is a prankster who has an album of such pranks. someone named Victor Lewis Smith. Towers of Dub - "Hello, I'm Rags, woof woof" is from Woody Allen's _Sleeper_. Towers of Dub (version on "Patterns and Textures") - The skit is a comedy team named Jaeger and Evans, "The Hippie and the Redneck." ..."The Mirage fighter and interceptor--one of the best dog fighters in the world...available in a choice of colors." is from "Deal of the Century", a super-cheesy 80's movie with Chevy Chase as an international arms smuggler... "can a nuclear war be won? Yes, the United States can survive a Soviet first strike..." - could possibly be from the same movie. Majestic - Vanna White saying "We're really on TV!" and other things comes from the Tape-beatle's samplariffic disc "Music With Sound". [The Tape-Beatles are a band that makes music from found taped sounds. Therefore, not an original source] Majestic - "There is still no such reality as something for n-n-n-nothing" is from track #8 entitled "Desire" on the CD "Music with Sound" by the Tape Beatles. Earth (gaia) - The spoken bit at the beginning ('What place ...') is taken from the film 'Flash Gordon'. The Flash Gordon samples, in some places, are sped up a little. Earth (Gaia) - "They make gardens...and live in them" the Old Testament. And now a reading from the online book of Amos: AMO 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. AMO 9:14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. AMO 9:15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. Kiss Your Love (from the Kiss EP, an obscure Orb release) - the main melody is sampled from "Prepare to Energize" by Torch Song, a band William Orbit had in the early 80s. general - Quite a few Orb sound effects are also taken from a BBC Radiophonic Workshop record called "Out of this world", which has recently been rereleased on CD called "BBC Sound Effects - Science Fiction Part II" (the same record contains the Tardis noise which the KLF use in Doctorin' The Tardis). general - "Adventures Beyond..." features a multitude of musical samples from a record called "Interdimensional Music", namely that analogue "whine" used throughout "HUge Pulsating Brain". general - Just got a magazine in the UK called Future Music, and it has a free CD on it containing lots of samples (for music makers to use in their own material). Anyway, I think that you will find that there are a lot of Orb Samples on that CD - they are all from the Zero-G data disks, which are Amiga samples, or CDs containing lots and lots of samples and break beats. The CD that came with the magazine, contains the female vocal hook from the Blue Room, as well as other samples which appear on U.F.Orb and the Adventures... albums. general - One person says his friend will claim to the grave that 75% of what you hear when you put on 'Adventures' is sampled from a "Captain Jack Flanders" program from ZBS Adventure Media, an outfit in upstate New York (I think) that puts out well-recorded radio dramas. ".. a bit like the Firesign Theatre, only not as funny and more plot- centered. Once, this friend, in a fit of insomnia, listened to 'Adventures' all the way through, identifying sound bite after sound bite as coming from ZBS tapes. He could've just been drunk though." [someone else writes:] i am a huge fan of "Ruby - The Adventures Of A Galactic Gumshoe" but i have never noticed a single sample from Ruby in any of the Orb's music. ? - On "Adventures...", there's a "Four million strong...and growing" sample, which Lazlo reminds me is the Flinstones commercial. >> Below are some non-Orb songs that are worth knowing about................ Higher than the Sun: Drums are from "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin. They Might Be Giants song "Guitar": remixes have lots of Apollo samples. Not Orb-related but I put in here anyway. 808 State "Lift": melody is from "Love's Theme" by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra. Pacific: contains a sample of a loon. Alleged to be the sample called "Loon Garden" from an Emulator factory sample disk. Also heard on "Fever 103" from the album "Force" by A Certain Ratio. Nefertiti: "We are the music makers..." is Gene Wilder in the movie "Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory." The scene where he is telling Veruca Salt about the lickable wallpaper. She says "There's no such THING as Snozzberries!" to which he responds with the quote sampled. The movie is in turn quoting an ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), allegedly entitled simply "Ode". Same sample is used in Aphex Twin's "We Are the Music Makers." Art of Noise - "The Ambient Collection" For the first 5-6 seconds of "Nothing Was Going To Stop Them, Anyway", Alex Paterson samples the 12-second intro to "Caracas", originally released on the Phil Manzanera (of Roxy Music fame) album _Primitive Guitars_, and also on his _Guitarissimo_ greatest hits album. St. Etienne - "You're in a Bad Way" on the album is preceded bya sample from Billy Liar: "A man can lose himself in London." ++end of file on Orb samples+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++