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  • Audio CD (9 Oct 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B0000506E8
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 61,249 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

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
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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)
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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

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent listening and interesting too, 31 Dec 2000
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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!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent showcase of funk, soul and disco originals., 6 Feb 2001
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'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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2.0 out of 5 stars There are better collections than this, 24 Nov 2000
By Tk Childs "Tom C" (Oxford United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I was eager to hear this collection, being a big fan of soul, funk, jazz (and occasionally disco). I also read some rave reviews both on Amazon and in the music press. Well, I was very disappointed. It's an eclectic mess of a collection, with no sense of continuity. One minute you're listening to a funk record, the next it's a folk song. Some of the better tracks have been edited, so you don't get the full flavour of them either. Many of the tracks are best forgotten, having been eclipsed by the newer versions (Spiller is a good example). Others are so awful you will wish you'd never heard these originals (eg Soup for One). My recommendation is to forget this compilation and instead to go out and buy one of the Blaxploitation compilations (which feature many of the better tracks such as Be Thankful and Expansions in their full length version). These CDs have been lovingly put together; Sampled is a cynical cashing-in exercise.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sample the Sampled Range
The Sampled Series are 'the bomb'. If you like like Funk and Soul gems this is for you. Get them all.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quite simply the taste
This double LP has once again confirmed that a great deal of modern musicians are indeed (albeit clever) plagerists. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hear the original quality!
Take a little time to get into some funky vibes man!

If you like Robbie Williams, listen to this double CD and appreciate his actual lack of creative talent. Read more

Published on 9 Jan 2001

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This CD looked rather promising and was recommended by many sources.... DO NOT BE FOOLED.... it is an absolute pile of pants. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars An eclectic mix of the familiar and the not so familiar
Listening to this double cd reminds me of just how creative people can be when it comes to sampling these days. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the best compilation of its type ever!!!
Believe me this is a truly amazing compilation and at the price absurd value for money! This quite simply blows other breakbeat compilation specialists out of the water (Harmless,... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars An eclectic mix of all the tunes you thought were original !
If you're a bit of trainspotter and avid music fan of all things funky especially stuff from the 70's you will LOVE this CD which is jam packed (40 tracks!! Read more
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