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You must have heard how those samples were used. I'm not sure sampling a single note or vocal stab kinda thing counts as "sampling disco".
When I think of sampling disco I think of filtered disco loops like Beltram did or maybe something like Slam's Clap Your Hands w/ the Stevie Wonder vocal. I need to find better examples but that's all I can think of right now. Ben Sims plays a lot of newer stuff with filtered disco loops but no idea of individual tracks.
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But that to me is the interesting bit. They were sampling disco but flipping the samples differently.
A bit like the Paperclip People’s The Climax with the first choice and Lynn Collins bites. The latter was used for hip hop, hip house but in Carl’s hands the sample makes a techno track.
Or the First Choice sample in Bug in the Bassbin which for me is such a good example of a techno track, looking backward to make something so weird and futuristic and then got played at the wrong speed as a proto jungle track.
Or the Gaz sample used in Chicken Noodle Soup.
To be fair it was only years later when hanging out with Phil Asher and Patrick Forge when they schooled me at the Notting Hill Arts Club that I realised how much of Carl’s music was sample based. It became apparent where his source material was. Also as he is probably my favourite early to mid 90s techno producer I find the notion of techno not sampling disco very at odds with my knowledge and experience of techno.
Though famously the reason why Derrick May set up Fragile records was he felt Carls use of sampling made his music unsuitable for Transmat.
dancing james
Tracks that Mills sampled that spring to mind are Richie Havens and Michael Jackson