1st sample that caught your ear...

[Jmoki]

Hey, I was just wondering.. what was the 1st thing you heard that made you think, I could make a beat out of that, or I wanna loop that up....?
I rember hearing the drums from Stevie wonders superstion when i was a kid...
Oh and the album paint a lady by susan christie...if you havent heard it its full of dope stuff. I practically bought a sampler because of that album haha..
peace.

[blast1]

lots of late 60's to early 70's "Beatles" stuff...

[ColeRockLee]

That giant bell at the beginning of Hells Bells by AC/DC might have been the one.

[Netm8kr]

I remember searching forever for a song called "Riding High". It wasn't until EPMD flipped it on "please listen to my demo". That I found out it was a group called FAZE-O'. I remember this song from my childhood. I knew I was destined to make beats & remixes. It gets blurry after that...lol

[5ch0k0]

I remember my 1st Album that I bought back in the 70´s (i was about 12) was Nightflight to Venus from Boney M. The drums were/are pretty neat to sample

[elhuana]

Hahahaha I remember that the first sample based beat I made was using the sample from a PC Game called "Mafia:The City of Lost Heaven".

I even found it somewhere in my GMail "sent" folder

Hahahah When Im listening to it right now It seems so funny All those reloading and shooting sounds... soooo gangsta
A lot of other samples from hip hop songs were used also. Of course made with FL

Take a listen!
http://www.zshare.net/audio/54592335662beff2/

[Nicknw]

When I was like 12 I had been learning to make beats on Logic express 7, composing em, and my brother told me about these "MPCs" that could sample any thing you plugged it into, and this was a completely new thing to me, and I was like "Even a TV???", he was like "Even a TV" and I thought it was amazing lol.


When he said people like Wu Tang cut up records to make their beats with their MPCs, I didn't realize he meant old soul/rock/jazz records. So I took the intro from Rakim - In The Ghetto, and manually cut and pasted it for like 64 bars, and took the drum beat from Doc Brown - Look Back and made a beat which sounded like this "G-ghet-ghe-g-ghet-gh-ghet-a-to" over and over again lol.

[PHeMoX]

Hey, I was just wondering.. what was the 1st thing you heard that made you think, I could make a beat out of that, or I wanna loop that up....?

That would be certain parts of 'white trash beautiful' from Everlast.. but reversed. Really, I had no clue what to sample when I first started out, I just tried. Lots of trial and error happening here on just about every album I have.

[halcyon_rave]

1st "sample"...
I was like really young my mom'd play a lot of soul and R&B stuff. (in the car, house, etc) I remember everytime she'd play Isaac Hayes's version of Walk on By, I'd always want to hear the beginning over and over again.

lol too bad my mom listens to new "rap" music now

[cartesia]

I have no idea... I started off using synths

[mmelon]

break water break water break water hip hop!

Xenon2 Megablast

[houseofninjas]

Some drums from Black Sabbath's first album and the guitar from house of the rising sun by The Animals.

[springwater]

When i first started sampling i remember sampling these Bill Brown sountrack samples from some random website. It was like the music for sinbad and all them fantasy orchestral soundtracks with really hard stabs and fat man opera solos. I pieced together a bunch of shit from those.

[IIIII]

the strings only track from the beatles "elenor rigby"... SO sick. i flipped it so bad(bad as in bad) for my first 'beat' when i got my 404 that first week... so this got me thinking. i'm listening to the strings right now, maybe first time in 3 years, and its still SOOOO sick. thinking about a re-flip holy hell hello

[cartesia]

We should do a beatles flip contest! Instead of everyone getting the same sample, get everyone to choose a diff beatles track or somethin