Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Troubled so hard - Vera Hall (from Moby's Natural Blues)
2. Take yo' praise - Camille Yarbrough (from Fatboy Slim's Praise you)
3. It's Ecstasy...- Barry White (from Robbie Williams' Rock DJ)
4. I got the...- Labi Siffre (from Eminem's My name is)
5. Old cape cod - Patti Page (from Groove Amarda's At the river)
6. The magic number - Bob Dorough (from De la soul's Magic number)
7. Woman of the ghetto - Marlena Shaw (from Blueboy's Remember me)
8. Think - Lyn Collins (from Rob Base & DJ EZRock's It takes two)
9. Funky drummer - James Brown (from P.E.'s Fight the power)
10. Who is he and what is he to you? - Creative source (from LL Cool J's Phenomenon
11. Chase the devil - Maz Romeo & the Upsetters (from Prodigy's Out of space)
12. Why? - Carly Simon (from Tribe called quest's Bonita applebum)
13. Superfreak - Rick James (from MC Hammer's Can't touch this)
14. I'm coming out - Diana Ross (from Notorious BIG's Mo money mo problems)
15. Good times - Chic (from Grandmaster Flash's Adventures on the wheels of steel)
16. Is it love you're after - Rose Royce (from S-Express theme)
17. Keep on jumpin' - Musique (from Lisa Marie Exp's keep on jumping)
18. I can't go for that - Hall & Oates (from De la soul's Say no Go)
19. Buddy X - Neneh Cherry (from Dreem team vs. Neneh Cherry's Buddy X)
20. Everybody's gotta learn sometime - The Korgis (Marc et Claude's I need your lovin'

Disc 2:

1. Love is you - Carol Williams (from Spiller's Groovejet)
2. Fate - Chaka Khan (from Stardust's Music sounds better with you)
3. Let me down easy - Rare pleasure (from David Morales'Needin'U
4. Soup for one - Chic (from Modjo's Lady)
5. Reach up - Tony Lee (from Phats & smalls Turn around)
6. Expansions - Lonnie Liston Smith (from Stetsasonic's Talkin all that Jazz)
7. Celebration suite - Airto (from Bellini's Samba de janiero)
8. The beat goes on - Buddy Rich (from All seeing I's Beat goes on)
9. Sliced tomatoes - Just brothers (from Fatboy slim's Rockafella skank)
10. Bring down the birds - Herbie Hancock (from Dee-lite's Groove is in the heart)
11. Soul bossa nova - Quicy Jones (from Dream warrior's Boombastic jazz style)
12. Sway - Rosemary Clooney (from Shaft's Mucho mambo)
13. Ain't there something money can't buy - Young holt unlimited (from Gang Starr's Love sick)
14. Grandma's hands - Bill Withers (from Blackstreet's No Diggity
15. Hercules - Aaron Neville (from Young Mc's I come off)
16. Ike's rap II - Isaac Hayes (from Portishead's glory box)
17. Be thankful for what you've got - William de Vaughn (from Massive attack's Be thankful)
18. Cantaloupe island - Herbie Hancock (from US3's Cantaloop)
19. Is is because I'm black - Sly Johnson (from Cypress Hill's Interlude)
20. Stratus - Billy Cobham (from Massive attack's Safe from harm)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57403 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-09
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
Sampled is a compilation dedicated to unearthing the original songs that were sampled or plundered wholesale to create mainstream and cult classics like Moby's "Natural Blues" (Vera Hall's "Troubled So Hard") and Spiller's "Groovejet" (Carol Williams' "Love Is You"). A double CD of 40 tracks, Sampled is a laudable attempt to please ardent trainspotters and lovers of jazz, soul, disco, blues and contemporary dance music alike. Some of these songs are well-known, joyous slabs of melodic genius--Quincy Jones' "Summer in the City" (Nightmares on Wax's "Les Nuits") or James Brown's now infamous "Funky Drummer". Others are unfashionable and shamefully undervalued--Syl Johnson's seductive but antagonistic funk assault, "Is It Because I'm Black" (Cypress Hill's "Interlude"). Back in those Day-Glo pre-sampler days, Bob Dorough's 1960s folk song, "The Magic Number", must have seemed as playfully deep and highly skilled as anything his De La Soul admirers did on Three Feet High and Rising. This isn't surprising. For the most part, Sampled concentrates on the tracks that hip-hop producers have dug out of their crates, then sampled and stretched to make their own. However, where a lot of 1980s, 1990s and early 21st-century tracks won't stand the test of time, the songs collected here has failed to lose any of their soulful, addictive lustre. --Maxine Kabuubi

Customer Reviews

Excellent listening and interesting too
I was at first put off by some of the comments above, but after having bought this CD I can only recommend it. Most of the tracks were new to me as I'm not very familiar with the genre, but there are some fantastic tracks on there! Also, it's interesting to listen to how these songs have been sampled by modern-day artists. This CD is well worth the money, and I eagerly await volume 2!

An excellent showcase of funk, soul and disco originals.
'Sampled' is probably one of the best compliation albums I own at present, and even if old skool funk, soul and disco is not your 'thang', I am sure you will appreciate this record for what it is. It takes some of the most well known tracks in contemporary music,such as Fatboy Slim's 'Praise You', and Moby's 'Natural Blues', and unearths the classic tracks behind them, that efectively made them hits. You have the likes of Diana Ross, Chic and Isaac Hayes - classics, and once again hits in their own right. 'Sampled' honours these items of music which, until now, have been lost in music. It is an insight into the culture of sampling, and is proof that as far as music is concerned, 2001 is going to be gettin' it on with all things groovy!

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The Sampled Series are 'the bomb'. If you like like Funk and Soul gems this is for you. Get them all.