Hi guys! Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion! To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊 Looks like a lot of folks (especially Dublab) owe us a bunch of royalties eh? 😂
Hi Eric, This seems like a very serious topic, especially if you want money from this. We need more information about your case (or for its official filing in the documentation reports), for it to mean more than an opinion (which it seems to be with your initial comment.) Regards, Dimitri
The fact that a song _written in the _*_1500s_* (or earlier) could last, and resound across CENTURIES of time, distortion, and cultural shifts... to find its way into a foreign land, where no one even understands the language, and be shifted/manipulated by technology, and still turn out beautiful, and STILL move people (even in new ways) is God-like in and of itself. It's transcendent.
@@Macc_spiceMaybe he’s more interested in grammar than the discussion. So what? He gave a helpful tip. Only a problem if you let it be, unlike the original commenter who took it and ran with it.
"INDSNSKRT" is short for "india sanskrit", one of the oldest languages.. carnatic music is usually in sanskrit, kannada, tamil or other south indian languages
my best friend is from India, Kerala, he doesn't even know anything about yung lean and he heard this song for the first time in his life and he recognized the sample hahah
the singer is Dr.Bhagya Murthy found a youtube video its the same exact voice '' Sree Gandha - Dasara Padagalu - Dr.Bhagya Murthy '' - UPDATE : Spectrasonics official channel just replied to my comment and they confirmed it is in fact Dr baghya Murthy
No way only 4 likes bro. This comment needs to be pinned. I definitely agree. Her vocal tone and technique match the sample perfectly. How did you ever find that
@@malikfairley9926 Lol someone needs a stick removed from their butt... I just confirmed that we ACTUALLY did that when doing some of these World Sample Compilations. I've done stuff for Big Fish, Hollywood Edge etc. You record anyone playing or singing and sort it out later.
@@rehab_herr haha ya I was sarcastic when I 1st typed it , but thinking about it now and after watching tha whole video ; that sample is hard to find n definitely deserves its own vid
It's funny I'm watching this whole video for an artist I don't even listen to and a song that I've never once heard. I just love deep diving into samples.
I don't know who this artist is, never heard the song or the sample before, never heard of the RUclipsr who made this video. I'm not in to hip hop, and I have no interest in samples or loops or beats or raps. I dont even remember how I ended up here. All I know at this point is that for some reason I am completely fucking invested in solving this mystery!
You whats the funniest. People that bought that sample pack probably thought “oh lol this is the sample from yumg leans’ ginseng strip 2002 for probably 10 years and didnt know so many people were searching for it
hi I'm an Indian music producer, the omnisphere samples are short for: Indian Sanskrit NO... and sample no 31 says NAARAAYAN(One of the indian trinity hindu god). I guess they wrongly labeled the sample as sanskrit as it is kannada
Yes this is what I heard too, I knew this instantly because The Prodigy has a song with this name, which has a similar style of vocal sample, chanting the words "OM Namah Narayana" and I remember looking it up to figure out what it ment
@@wobseed6376 it wasn't popular in the mainstream. Yung Lean blew up in the alternative rap circuit. I remember his style + the production style of Yung Gud and Clams Casino being coined as "Cloud Rap" because of the ethereal sounds Basically popular for anyone who was chronically online, meanwhile the mainstream stuff like Future, A$AP Rocky, Drake, etc. were dominating. At least that's what I observed as a high school sophomore back then. I graduated 2015
This is exactly the point. The algorithm has transitioned from number of views to watch time. You haven't noticed that most videos are 15+ minutes long now? Every creator is transitioning to long form. It is what it is.
great video but the vocalist is probly some random session musician and not the iconic MLV. imagine if someone wanted to find a sample that's from a jazz standard, so they listened to a few covers and thought it sounded most like ella fitzgerald. you wouldn't be sure it's The Ella Fitzgerald now imagine jazz is a weird foreign genre you never heard growing up and the particular jazz standard is ANCIENT and the usa has over a BILLION people in it you just would not be prepared to figure out which vocalist recorded anything, especially without speaking the language but what you did find is all top notch, apart from being overconfident of that one thing, you killed this video
i agree. the final answer is still up in the air. you can't just find a similar singer and make a guess. you have to back it up. the crediting with samples on non-western music is brutally imprecise because of a lack of documentation/care put into respecting foreign cultures. look into deep forest if you want a similar story. their song sweet lullaby devolved into a legal battle over sample rights between the original recording's owner and the band, not even involving the original singer. it's likely she never heard the outcome of the sample nor received any compensation. it's a damn shame at best and a crime at worst. the video was great up until that leap of logic. but until someone affiliated with spectrasonic gives an answer as to who they recorded for the song, we will never know the voice behind the sample.
I doubt they even booked a session just close miced in someone who was willing to sing for them maybe in their own home somewhere. I used to make sample packs you literally grab recordings of whoever's willing to do it
so happy this is being brought up. why would a small recording company go and seek one of the most popular singers just for some sample work? work that doesn't even credit her....? it makes absolutely no sense... of course to save on expenses they would get a random/no name singer that doesn't have a large asking price! 0% chance its her. so imo, unless the recording company Spectrasonics themselves can find out who they recorded, we'll likely never truly know regardless i absolutely loved watching this video, was so well put together and im so happy those that originally found the sample packs are getting proper credit for it!
Two things: 1. The original vocal of the sample does not necessarily have to come from MLV. A trained ear could tell you that it’s most likely not her in the four loops, and also, she was quite old even during the time the Ginseng track was made, and the person who laid the vocals down for the sampling is definitely younger. The song itself is a prayer song from the 1400s, so it’s definitely not uncommon to have a lot of Carnatic musicians sing it. Here’s a hypothesis: Audio engineers and samplers go on literal adventures to find voices and sounds they could sample for posterity. Folk music and troubadourist culture is very much alive in the South Indian subcontinent, ranging from the Pakistani Frontier, Punjab, Kashmir and Balouch in the north to the various Carnatic languages in the South, languages such as Maithali in Bihar, eastwards to Bengal (which has its own treasure trove of a history of folk/troubadour culture) and the various tribes of East India and Myanmar. The original sampler might’ve just found a sweet, strong voice singing this common devotional song, be it from an anonymous, travelling troubadour or a companion, and recorded it, later to process it and lay it down as samples. As famously sung, “The hills are alive with the sound of music.” 2. That was fantastic, dude. I see a lot of comments futilising your effort, but this was a very well put together, methodical documentation of the search and find of various facets of a piece of “lost media”. And the community, and you in the end, jumped various cultural hoops to finally solve this puzzle. Kudos to you. It’s funny to me how my musical influences now were connected to the music of my homeland through such a cryptic adventure. Good going, best wishes.
Thanks. You did a fantastic job. It was like a feature length Song Exploder episode. I'm so impressed that you went to the effort to translate the vocal into English.
its crazy that archive people and people who find stuff with situations like this are rarely ever recognized and its kinda become a part of being a part of the archive community
An archive is something like a vault. A virtual archive is like an endless vault. It should be no surprise that some contents inside might be hard to find, if not impossible depending on how much is within that archive so its to be expected.
Only piece of advice on these videos bro, if you spoke to an Indian music expert or something (a lil zoom call) - that would’ve added so much more depth and context - amazing video, keep going
@@juliuscaesar8163Or maybe because as a small time youtuber I'd be hard to get traction. I suspect if he wanted to do a follow up he'd get quite a few volunteers.
Great video! I just wanted to point out an interesting fact, that it's not "nadayana" but "narayana". It's the same Sanskrit word you can here in the Prodigy song "Narayan". Apparently “Narayana” is a Sanskrit word which translates to English as 'one who sleeps in the waters'. Nar ( pronounced naar) = water, Ayan = Sleep. It refers to the god Vishnu.
Spectrasonics most likely just hired some random female singer to do the vocal loops. Honestly you could probably find the singer in the credits for the heart of Asia pack.
man i love yung lean. he deserves so much more recognition for what he’s done for music as a whole. sadly to the majority of people he’ll only ever be a meme rapper. amazing video
i personally dont think either of the singers sound like the loop, its very possible theyre just a singer they hired that doesn’t record or release their own music so it truly might be unfindable. u cant say u found the singer when its not confirmable at all. i dont wanna seem rude though this video is very well made and enjoyable 👍❤️
@@TheresAlwaysATalisman this is the piece of information that I don’t know why he didn’t mention, MLV passed away before the release of the pack and I don’t think Spectrasonics kept on a paycheck for years the engineers in India for some recordings, probably it all happened in months or less. The video tho is really nice
Great video dude. I was bumping Yung Lean back in 2013. It's pretty wild seeing how much he has progressed over the past decade. Much love, hope to see more deep dives into samples.
I remember seeing Tracklibs sample breakdown on this song. Despite never hearing it before I couldn't help but admire the ingenuity on how it was built. And I'm glad you're shedding some light on who originally found it, as well as the song. The singer is still contentious, but we're definitely on the right track. Epic!
Mad respect to you bruh. This much of research bruh madness, from a single loop to its original indian composer, cover singers even the meanings of lyrics. You deserve separate royalty for this...
Didn't MLV pass away in 1990 according to Google, while spectrasonics was founded in 1994. How did they get such a clear recording of the song four years after her death if she did sing it?
@@CaptureGhost01 I saw your comment under the actual yung lean video where you answered somebody that was asking if people are still listening 2025 that you were just there to look for a sample so I answered and recommended this video however when I went on this video again I saw your comment under this video so I said it seems like you found out already
Great video. I’m not convinced MLV sang that though, really doesn’t even sound like her. There’s timbre in the voice that isn’t quite matching up. You should email/get ahold of the engineer who recorded the sessions from spectrasonics and find out who exactly did that. I can see them bringing in a singer (doesn’t have to be popular) to sing the song. I mean really. Other than the MLV claim seriously amazing video.
Amazing video, watched every second of this video, didn't even skip a second. Dude seriously keep make these pop culture rabbit hole research projects.
Props to you for not doing just enough. You went down that rabbit hole that 99% of people wouldn’t bother to do. Never heard of the guy but I enjoyed the process.
Samples for Hell On Earth and The Infamous are STILL being found too. "Bring It On" by DJ Premier for Jay Z is still unknown after nearly 30 years. "Unbelievable" for Biggie is still unknown too, also produced by Premier.
Bro this is crazy work. Good shit. Edit: ayy shouts out to the LMW. Big ups to Julian. The answer ending up in the comments here is crazy shout outs to her son.
Well, Looks like I can shed more light into this. The language of this song is Kannada - A language predominantly spoken in the southern state of India called Karnataka. This is a carnatic (a style of music) song written by the sage Purandara Dasa. It's an ode to the god Vishnu also known as Narayana ( Pronounced as "Nah rah yeah na" (INDSNSKRT-31 ) "Aneyu karadare, adhimoola bandanthe, Ajamilanu karedhare Narayana bandanthe" is the first verse of the song written by the sage. It translates to "Like when the elephant calls, the primeval god came" "When Ajamila called, lord Narayana came"
Great video, but when it comes to who sang on the loop is going to be practically impossible to find as they might have just asked someone who has trained in Carnatic music to sing bc songs in carnatic music function like jazz standards, where there's a good chance that smn recorded this at the singer's home even
How he cut, stitched and connected those vocal chops to make them sound melodic enough EVEN with fruity loops is just unbelievable. and to think that he made it for free royalty. Imagine about all the other 60 loops he made with potential heat
I appreciate the fact u went through all that to find the original singer but im more impressed by the person who chopped those 4 parts and made in into 1, I havent got a clue abiut producing and if what was done is impressive but the way that finished sample sounded so smoothly i wouldnt be able to make something like that
Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion! To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
The english translation of those four verses state a story of 'gajendra moksha' an elephant in an ancient era is attacked by a crocodile in a pond and the elephant is stuck fighting for its escape for a long decades and the elephant finally surenders by offering the lotus from the pond to God Vishnu and lord vishnu saves him by killing the crocodile The second verse mentions about 'ajamila', an indian brahmana who asked for mercy of god before dying and god saved him from going into the hell Hope it helps, I know some of those scriptures because of my roots🙏
Atill one thing is not clear. The audio quality of spectrasonics is very clear compared to the examples you showef and also clear of instruments. So where is the original audio of the performance that spectrasonics used for their recording?
Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion! To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
23:57 this way of thinking is so backwards. we're talking about a sample pack with uncredited artists, why the hell would more famous singers be more likely to be featured on it? seems to me it would be the other way around to save costs. Also ML Vasanthakumari's voice definitely does not sound as close to the sample as you make it sound. If anything, the short sound clip of Archana M you played sounds closer. Actually I am willing to bet the artist who sang it is nowhere to be found on the Internet or anywhere else: it's extremely likely they paid a random singer local to the place where they recorded the sample to sing it. I know it's satisfying to say the "hunt" is finished, but sometimes we have to accept everything does not always have a satisfying conclusion, and it's unreasonable to conclude here with such little evidence.
Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion! To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
Ok maybe I'm missing something here or maybe they already tried this, but why ON EARTH would you not just contact Spectrasonics? If Spectrasonics recorded the sample then they would know who it was or would be able to find someone who was present at the recording of the clips for the Omnisphere pack. Specrasonics would most likely have had a sample pack producer (as in finance and production schedule producer, not music producer) and that person would have put money down for studio time in a local recording booth. It's very likely that the singer of the sample is some local person that the producer knew if the sample was recorded in a country that is not India. The crowning of MLV as the singer of the sample seems like a fumble here as it's very likely the singer is from the United States. Spectrasonics headquarters are in Burbank CA and it just seems like a stretch to say that they flew this random Indian singer (who probably doesn't speak English) out for a studio session so they could make a sample pack that isn't JUST about her or authentic Sanskrit music recordings. Studio time is expensive in case it wasn't obvious. Of course the other explanation is that Spectrasonics paid for offshore studio time in India and coordinated with the Indian recording studio to bring a local woman in for a session, record some phrases, and then send those recordings to Spectrasonics for further processing. If that's what happened then good luck finding the woman. In my opinion it's more likely that the singer is just some random person that either a Spectrasonics employee or an employee of the recording studio used for the HoA pack knows. It could even be a Craigslist booking for all we know.
Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion! To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
INDSNSKRT is probably short for Indian Sanskrit, which seems to be the language the female is singing in. I always thought those were some Japanese vocals but seems like that's not the case at all
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Production quality is top-notch, glad to be apart of it 🖤
ceasar, you're a beast! AMAZING work!
Legend
u a legend for finding the samples hats off to u ceasar
my king 😇🤭
Thanks bro!
I just love how this feels like watching a true crime documentary but is a doc about a yung lean sample instead, props
WHO! SANG! THE LOOP! It's so dramatic and so well researched whilst still being so utterly unimportant. I love it.
on point bro xD
The soundtrack 😂😂😂
I am spooked tho how did they find it at the same time….
@@throwawaymyheartimagine 8 or 9 years of actively looking with other people also looking
Hi guys . Thr singer's name is Dr.Bhagya Murthy from Singapore. And yes I'm her son.
Wtf! This thread just got crazy. Gonna need more proof!
@@ihavereservations agree!
@@ihavereservationsfr
Holy shit I guess that is the truth
wow
Hi guys! Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion!
To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
Looks like a lot of folks (especially Dublab) owe us a bunch of royalties eh? 😂
😂😂😂😂 shiiiit.
Hi Eric,
This seems like a very serious topic, especially if you want money from this.
We need more information about your case (or for its official filing in the documentation reports), for it to mean more than an opinion (which it seems to be with your initial comment.)
Regards,
Dimitri
Wow. Now I am hoping for a Yung Lean x Dr. Bhagya Murthy collab in the future :D
The man himself has spoken
This is the original track posted in Kishan’s channel (Bhagya Murthy’s son)
ruclips.net/video/LVYgvSd7B-I/видео.htmlsi=XRlgZQoslMxQa4v0&t=1053
The fact that a song _written in the _*_1500s_* (or earlier) could last, and resound across CENTURIES of time, distortion, and cultural shifts... to find its way into a foreign land, where no one even understands the language, and be shifted/manipulated by technology, and still turn out beautiful, and STILL move people (even in new ways) is God-like in and of itself.
It's transcendent.
To find its* way, no apostrophe saying it is way. Ours. Theirs. Its. No apostrophe for belonging to and it's/it is already exists! 😉
@@thekeysman6760 Thanks.
@@renosance8941 👍 And thank you for saying thank you! That's rare. You're a star!
@thekeysman6760 It would've been polite to at least acknowledge the content of the post you're replying to before your quibbling correction.
@@Macc_spiceMaybe he’s more interested in grammar than the discussion. So what? He gave a helpful tip. Only a problem if you let it be, unlike the original commenter who took it and ran with it.
"INDSNSKRT" is short for "india sanskrit", one of the oldest languages.. carnatic music is usually in sanskrit, kannada, tamil or other south indian languages
Yeah haha that seemed intuitive to me as well
The sample is in Kannada actually!
Exactly tell em mane
for sure
ruclips.net/video/PaMFv44_IRA/видео.htmlsi=Q3zhMEVTdSmyi2-0 I'm pretty sure it's this one but the sample seems to be sung by a different artist
that fact that he keeps saying INDSNSKRT before each number every time is driving me nuts. cool shit tho
Insane
😂😂😂😂😂
Pretty sure the file name stands for Indian Sanskrit
I just got to that part and it drove me insane lolol
needs that watch time
samples come and go brah, but you know i stay
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sample the sound of mosquito tits
Samples make you stay
chur miracle whips, make more geo scripts pls
@@1xqd0 🗿
my best friend is from India, Kerala, he doesn't even know anything about yung lean and he heard this song for the first time in his life and he recognized the sample hahah
the singer is Dr.Bhagya Murthy
found a youtube video its the same exact voice '' Sree Gandha - Dasara Padagalu - Dr.Bhagya Murthy ''
- UPDATE : Spectrasonics official channel just replied to my comment and they confirmed it is in fact Dr baghya Murthy
No way only 4 likes bro. This comment needs to be pinned. I definitely agree. Her vocal tone and technique match the sample perfectly. How did you ever find that
@@PYROtheNomad yeah i was just searching for random carnatic singers some hindi religious songs and found her
@@Jellemyah crazy
time stamp?
@@sontheyshook Starts around 17:30. Could fit. She is also based in Singapur. But I guess we need to hear it from her.
SOS / Sound On Sound magazine interviewed Eric Persing, the founder of Spectrasonics, in the July 2000 issue, and they asked him about the Heart Of Asia sample CD in a section about vocal recordings:
" _Where_ _do_ _you_ _find_ _these_ _great_ _ethnic_ _singers?_ "
" _Believe_ _it_ _or_ _not,_ _sometimes_ _we_ _just_ _ask_ _people_ _if_ _they_ _can_ _sing._ _On_ _a_ _road_ _in_ _Nepal,_ _we_ _passed_ _a_ _old_ _peasant_ _man_ _carrying_ _a_ _huge_ _load_ _on_ _a_ _cart._ _We_ _introduced_ _ourselves_ _and_ _asked_ _him_ _if_ _he_ _could_ _sing_ _something_ _for_ _us._ _He_ _sets_ _down_ _his_ _load,_ _we_ _press_ _record_ _on_ _the_ _portable_ _DAT_ _and_ _what_ _comes_ _out_ _of_ _mouth_ _is_ _one_ _of_ _the_ _most_ _powerful_ _and_ _passionate_ _voices_ _I've_ _ever_ _heard!_ _He_ _finishes_ _his_ _song,_ _packs_ _up_ _his_ _load_ _and_ _goes_ _on_ _his_ _merry_ _way!_ "
Yeah I don't believe they found the singer - I used to make sample packs you literally grab recordings of whoever's willing to do it
@@blakasmurf what? you basically just said the same shit he said
@@malikfairley9926 Lol someone needs a stick removed from their butt... I just confirmed that we ACTUALLY did that when doing some of these World Sample Compilations. I've done stuff for Big Fish, Hollywood Edge etc. You record anyone playing or singing and sort it out later.
@@malikfairley9926 he's providing extra context...
@@malikfairley9926 precisely, he is agreeing
Yung Lean up in the club for some morphine
no it’s yunggggggggggggggg leannnnnnnnnnnnnn upp in the clubbbbbbbbbb for some morphine(morphine)
Always thought he said “feel so morphine”
it‘s actually ‚in the cut‘ not club
@@ynpavo nope, makes also no sense
@@uniquegod1997why not? Most drug deals happen “ in the cut”
That sample definitely deserves a 30 min vid about it
sarcasm?
@@rehab_herr haha ya I was sarcastic when I 1st typed it , but thinking about it now and after watching tha whole video ; that sample is hard to find n definitely deserves its own vid
@@stabaholic187No bro. Just no lol
@@russellsimienii9343 L bro. Just L lol
man took over 30mins to get to the point
It's funny I'm watching this whole video for an artist I don't even listen to and a song that I've never once heard. I just love deep diving into samples.
I never understood how interesting the search for a sample could be made into a video like this lol this is nuts!
Same 😂
Whaaaat, should give the song a listen. Song was way ahead of its time.
Same bruh
I don't know who this artist is, never heard the song or the sample before, never heard of the RUclipsr who made this video. I'm not in to hip hop, and I have no interest in samples or loops or beats or raps. I dont even remember how I ended up here.
All I know at this point is that for some reason I am completely fucking invested in solving this mystery!
You whats the funniest. People that bought that sample pack probably thought “oh lol this is the sample from yumg leans’ ginseng strip 2002 for probably 10 years and didnt know so many people were searching for it
hi I'm an Indian music producer, the omnisphere samples are short for: Indian Sanskrit NO... and sample no 31 says NAARAAYAN(One of the indian trinity hindu god). I guess they wrongly labeled the sample as sanskrit as it is kannada
Correct 💯
Yes this is what I heard too, I knew this instantly because The Prodigy has a song with this name, which has a similar style of vocal sample, chanting the words "OM Namah Narayana" and I remember looking it up to figure out what it ment
Ok so. is it the same song? The loop and MLV?
Graduated in 2013 and this song wasn’t popular then
@@wobseed6376 it wasn't popular in the mainstream. Yung Lean blew up in the alternative rap circuit. I remember his style + the production style of Yung Gud and Clams Casino being coined as "Cloud Rap" because of the ethereal sounds
Basically popular for anyone who was chronically online, meanwhile the mainstream stuff like Future, A$AP Rocky, Drake, etc. were dominating. At least that's what I observed as a high school sophomore back then. I graduated 2015
music history class in 40 years
Completely wrong tho
tl;dr version: yung swedish kids use whatever royalty free sample packs they found that day to emulate peak clams casino vybz ;P
nice video though! incredible research
XD
It really do be that way.
No fr 😂
i’m crying they could’ve just talked to a desi person
😭😭
Yeah… the mispronunciations killed me, dude could have just googled how to pronounce “Karnataka” or “Narayana”
This breakdown is next level. Incredible job
Great video, and I think it was really wholesome that you gave credit for the people who found it
The pacing of this video is hilariously annoying its like hes trying to stretch everything twice as long as necessary
Yes!! I agree… I gave up 10:32 into it.
2x
Dude does tell us to get a snack at the beginning.
He's new, he'll learn and be better!
This is exactly the point. The algorithm has transitioned from number of views to watch time. You haven't noticed that most videos are 15+ minutes long now? Every creator is transitioning to long form. It is what it is.
great video but the vocalist is probly some random session musician and not the iconic MLV. imagine if someone wanted to find a sample that's from a jazz standard, so they listened to a few covers and thought it sounded most like ella fitzgerald. you wouldn't be sure it's The Ella Fitzgerald now imagine jazz is a weird foreign genre you never heard growing up and the particular jazz standard is ANCIENT and the usa has over a BILLION people in it
you just would not be prepared to figure out which vocalist recorded anything, especially without speaking the language
but what you did find is all top notch, apart from being overconfident of that one thing, you killed this video
i agree. the final answer is still up in the air. you can't just find a similar singer and make a guess. you have to back it up.
the crediting with samples on non-western music is brutally imprecise because of a lack of documentation/care put into respecting foreign cultures.
look into deep forest if you want a similar story. their song sweet lullaby devolved into a legal battle over sample rights between the original recording's owner and the band, not even involving the original singer. it's likely she never heard the outcome of the sample nor received any compensation. it's a damn shame at best and a crime at worst.
the video was great up until that leap of logic. but until someone affiliated with spectrasonic gives an answer as to who they recorded for the song, we will never know the voice behind the sample.
Was gonna come here to say the same thing, glad other people are saving me the time!
I doubt they even booked a session just close miced in someone who was willing to sing for them maybe in their own home somewhere. I used to make sample packs you literally grab recordings of whoever's willing to do it
so happy this is being brought up. why would a small recording company go and seek one of the most popular singers just for some sample work? work that doesn't even credit her....? it makes absolutely no sense... of course to save on expenses they would get a random/no name singer that doesn't have a large asking price! 0% chance its her. so imo, unless the recording company Spectrasonics themselves can find out who they recorded, we'll likely never truly know
regardless i absolutely loved watching this video, was so well put together and im so happy those that originally found the sample packs are getting proper credit for it!
I agree, also I think bro missed a huge detail, MLV died back in 1990, the Heart of Asia sounded pretty freaking crisp, so it had to be new
Two things:
1. The original vocal of the sample does not necessarily have to come from MLV. A trained ear could tell you that it’s most likely not her in the four loops, and also, she was quite old even during the time the Ginseng track was made, and the person who laid the vocals down for the sampling is definitely younger. The song itself is a prayer song from the 1400s, so it’s definitely not uncommon to have a lot of Carnatic musicians sing it. Here’s a hypothesis:
Audio engineers and samplers go on literal adventures to find voices and sounds they could sample for posterity. Folk music and troubadourist culture is very much alive in the South Indian subcontinent, ranging from the Pakistani Frontier, Punjab, Kashmir and Balouch in the north to the various Carnatic languages in the South, languages such as Maithali in Bihar, eastwards to Bengal (which has its own treasure trove of a history of folk/troubadour culture) and the various tribes of East India and Myanmar. The original sampler might’ve just found a sweet, strong voice singing this common devotional song, be it from an anonymous, travelling troubadour or a companion, and recorded it, later to process it and lay it down as samples. As famously sung, “The hills are alive with the sound of music.”
2. That was fantastic, dude. I see a lot of comments futilising your effort, but this was a very well put together, methodical documentation of the search and find of various facets of a piece of “lost media”. And the community, and you in the end, jumped various cultural hoops to finally solve this puzzle. Kudos to you. It’s funny to me how my musical influences now were connected to the music of my homeland through such a cryptic adventure. Good going, best wishes.
As a music maker of 10+ years when he played the 3-4 different people singing it , I could honestly tell it was the 1st one he played
@@skrrtfranklin you could be right. Funny how differently different ears work eh.
@@rushnafwadud 👋🏻👍🏻🫶🏻🙌🏻
Thanks. You did a fantastic job. It was like a feature length Song Exploder episode.
I'm so impressed that you went to the effort to translate the vocal into English.
its crazy that archive people and people who find stuff with situations like this are rarely ever recognized and its kinda become a part of being a part of the archive community
The internet is communism baby
An archive is something like a vault. A virtual archive is like an endless vault. It should be no surprise that some contents inside might be hard to find, if not impossible depending on how much is within that archive so its to be expected.
@@_ybabruh hes talking about the people that own those vaults. i think you are confused mang.
Only piece of advice on these videos bro, if you spoke to an Indian music expert or something (a lil zoom call) - that would’ve added so much more depth and context - amazing video, keep going
Exactly, like… ask somebody
true!
@@juliuscaesar8163Or maybe because as a small time youtuber I'd be hard to get traction. I suspect if he wanted to do a follow up he'd get quite a few volunteers.
Ikr instead of butchering the words lol
Honestly, disagree. Would have taken away from the internet sleuth style
this is gonna blow up
6:52 bro why is this so dramatic i'm dying 😭
Us old heads call this sample hunting process "digging in the crates." Excellent job. Cheers
Nice video bro, You should make videos like this on all sorts of samples. I would watch.
Great video! I just wanted to point out an interesting fact, that it's not "nadayana" but "narayana". It's the same Sanskrit word you can here in the Prodigy song "Narayan". Apparently “Narayana” is a Sanskrit word which translates to English as 'one who sleeps in the waters'. Nar ( pronounced naar) = water, Ayan = Sleep. It refers to the god Vishnu.
Narayan is one of the gods in Indian mythology
Everything always comes back to the prodigy, one way or another
Spectrasonics most likely just hired some random female singer to do the vocal loops. Honestly you could probably find the singer in the credits for the heart of Asia pack.
for sure thats how it usually is, but its not unlikely theres no credit to the singer
Am I living in some alternate universe or did you just not watch the video?
@@COALEDasICE This guy obviously didn't find the real singer💀 he wrapped things up real quick because he wanted to drop this video and you can tell.
There’s no credits on the pack
@@Adam-sn4zi go back and watch the video then delete your original comment so you don't continue to look like an idiot
man i love yung lean. he deserves so much more recognition for what he’s done for music as a whole. sadly to the majority of people he’ll only ever be a meme rapper.
amazing video
IND - India
SNSKRT - Sanskrit 🕉️
i personally dont think either of the singers sound like the loop, its very possible theyre just a singer they hired that doesn’t record or release their own music so it truly might be unfindable. u cant say u found the singer when its not confirmable at all. i dont wanna seem rude though this video is very well made and enjoyable 👍❤️
I highly doubt it's MLV, she died in 1990, and the recording sounds quite modern.
@@machinatethe pack was released in November 1994, it’s not her.
@@TheresAlwaysATalisman this is the piece of information that I don’t know why he didn’t mention, MLV passed away before the release of the pack and I don’t think Spectrasonics kept on a paycheck for years the engineers in India for some recordings, probably it all happened in months or less. The video tho is really nice
doesnt mean it wasnt recorded in 1990. shit takes a long time to release@@TheresAlwaysATalisman
Your right it’s definitely a person they found on the streets with a beautiful voice
The amount of work and obsession that went into this deserves admiration and respect ! Thank you for sharing this .
Great video dude. I was bumping Yung Lean back in 2013. It's pretty wild seeing how much he has progressed over the past decade. Much love, hope to see more deep dives into samples.
she might be mlv but you're the mvp. thanks for the digging my friend :)
I remember seeing Tracklibs sample breakdown on this song. Despite never hearing it before I couldn't help but admire the ingenuity on how it was built. And I'm glad you're shedding some light on who originally found it, as well as the song. The singer is still contentious, but we're definitely on the right track. Epic!
Mad respect to you bruh. This much of research bruh madness, from a single loop to its original indian composer, cover singers even the meanings of lyrics. You deserve separate royalty for this...
Didn't MLV pass away in 1990 according to Google, while spectrasonics was founded in 1994. How did they get such a clear recording of the song four years after her death if she did sing it?
Recordings?
Time travel
I thought I was just gonna watch 5-10 mins of this video, but ended up finishing the whole thing in one sit. Well made video doc!
I feel like this could’ve been a 15 min video
I feel like you do not need to be such a hater
Hatergirl
@@PilzsammlerLokiI just wanted bro to improve his yt game and help out
no you're right. this is totally stretched for views
Crazy. Some lady out there who most definitely has no clue a bunch of people are using her voice to make more music. its amazing what we humad can do
Oh damn I Just saw your comment in the yung lean Video seems Like you found Out so nvm
@ich3015 I'm confused
@@CaptureGhost01 I saw your comment under the actual yung lean video where you answered somebody that was asking if people are still listening 2025 that you were just there to look for a sample so I answered and recommended this video however when I went on this video again I saw your comment under this video so I said it seems like you found out already
@ich3015 o dang I just checked and saw your reply.
@@CaptureGhost01 I thought you were still looking for it basically
quality content, though that title can *definitely* be argued against
MF DOOM's "Fazers" still hasn't been found
Felt like I scrolled for a century just to find a single mention of Fazers lmao
this is crasy now we need lean and MLV linkup
😂😂
gonna be tough, since MLV died 6 years before Yung Lean was even born... maybe we can use some of that time travel technology that Spectrasonics used.
@@machinateso it had to be the other lady?
She has passed away sadly
@@SomebodysuckmeYou serious? Music can be sampled as long as there's a recording.
The editing and music is on point with channels like LEMMiNO, this is actually insane.
This a great trip vid to watch for producers 😭😭 the magic is in the details
Had to put ts on 1.75 x speed
@Based138 bros can't watch a video longer than 5 minutes 💀yall's attention span is cooked.
@@beanbitch-v8nnah the dude jus talks hella slow
@@beanbitch-v8nput it on 1.75. It sounds like a normal person talking.
u so right, video is good but slow asl
@@beanbitch-v8nmaybe we just got jobs yk?
i cant believe yung gud sang the sample himself...
No he didn’t🤣
Great video. I’m not convinced MLV sang that though, really doesn’t even sound like her. There’s timbre in the voice that isn’t quite matching up.
You should email/get ahold of the engineer who recorded the sessions from spectrasonics and find out who exactly did that.
I can see them bringing in a singer (doesn’t have to be popular) to sing the song. I mean really.
Other than the MLV claim seriously amazing video.
That’s us! Answered the correct singer in the comments! 😊
Arch-ived❌
Ark-ived✅
This man said archived with a CH sound lol. Caught me off guard low key
Absolute CH-aos.
Such a psyCHopath
I just came across this song from the tracklib video randomly and I immediately knew the sample was from an Indian carnatic song. Great analysis btw
King RS: "this song was an overnight sensation"
Me: literally the first time I've ever heard this.
Oreomilkshake was his best song from that period IMO
Early RUclips sensation. 3+ million views is really good for some underground shitty swedish "rapper"
Amazing video, watched every second of this video, didn't even skip a second. Dude seriously keep make these pop culture rabbit hole research projects.
great video bro
haiiii
riashvashir
Genuinely awesome video. Gotta love the little blooper of the year 202012 @ 29:18
Your first documentary and you absolutely blew it out of the park. The editing, the pace, the narration were all absolutely phenomenal.
13:30 Ar-chived? Like chives? Bro It's pronounced "are kyve".
goated video fr crazy how this was made by a yt channel with less than 1k subs
FYI, the lyrics during "INDSNSKRT 30" (20:55) are basically the title of the song! "ajaaa mila nuka reda ray" is "Ajamilanu karédharé."
This video was so in detail I got goosebumps lol. Great vid
Props to you for not doing just enough. You went down that rabbit hole that 99% of people wouldn’t bother to do. Never heard of the guy but I enjoyed the process.
8:16 ... How didn't De De Mouse know where it came from? He almost positively got it on Omnisphere, knew that, and just wouldn't say so.
bro really had to say "I-N-D-S-N-S-K-R-T" every time
Im sorry but Mobb Deep's Shook Ones 2 is taking the spot for most mysterious sample in hip hop.. they found that thing after almost 30 years.
Samples for Hell On Earth and The Infamous are STILL being found too. "Bring It On" by DJ Premier for Jay Z is still unknown after nearly 30 years. "Unbelievable" for Biggie is still unknown too, also produced by Premier.
Bro this is crazy work. Good shit.
Edit: ayy shouts out to the LMW. Big ups to Julian. The answer ending up in the comments here is crazy shout outs to her son.
Incredible work man. That sample is a banger.
Well, Looks like I can shed more light into this. The language of this song is Kannada - A language predominantly spoken in the southern state of India called Karnataka. This is a carnatic (a style of music) song written by the sage Purandara Dasa. It's an ode to the god Vishnu also known as Narayana ( Pronounced as "Nah rah yeah na" (INDSNSKRT-31 )
"Aneyu karadare, adhimoola bandanthe,
Ajamilanu karedhare Narayana bandanthe"
is the first verse of the song written by the sage. It translates to
"Like when the elephant calls, the primeval god came"
"When Ajamila called, lord Narayana came"
Great video, but when it comes to who sang on the loop is going to be practically impossible to find as they might have just asked someone who has trained in Carnatic music to sing bc songs in carnatic music function like jazz standards, where there's a good chance that smn recorded this at the singer's home even
Nope! Revealed the answer of who we recorded in the comments! Check it out! 😊
@@SpectrasonicsVIDEO Dude where
@@gayatri_iyerits DR bhagya murthi. Official label commented on this video
how did I get here. It's 2 am and I don't even like yung lean
I really love how you took so much concern in giving proper credit, that's rare these days
Class! More sample mysteries would be awesome!
How he cut, stitched and connected those vocal chops to make them sound melodic enough EVEN with fruity loops is just unbelievable.
and to think that he made it for free royalty. Imagine about all the other 60 loops he made with potential heat
Love that phrase potential heat
2:00 mins in and you’ve not played the song… why?
Because we all know it and can easily search it, and because otherwise the video would be claimed. Are you new here?
@@smoke3560not if used for educational purposes... Right, Veteran?
Still risky
lmao no kid is buying a $129 sample pack, he sailed the seas like everyone else
I appreciate the fact u went through all that to find the original singer but im more impressed by the person who chopped those 4 parts and made in into 1, I havent got a clue abiut producing and if what was done is impressive but the way that finished sample sounded so smoothly i wouldnt be able to make something like that
God damn, props for compiling everything we know about this sample. Mustve taken a while, especially searching for the singer. Well put together video
32 minutes just to tell us about a sample is insane
Great work but the mystery still lives. Neither of the options listed were the actual person responsible for the recording.
Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion!
To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
@@SpectrasonicsVIDEO Hey how did you even develop omnisphere
The english translation of those four verses state a story of 'gajendra moksha' an elephant in an ancient era is attacked by a crocodile in a pond and the elephant is stuck fighting for its escape for a long decades and the elephant finally surenders by offering the lotus from the pond to God Vishnu and lord vishnu saves him by killing the crocodile
The second verse mentions about 'ajamila', an indian brahmana who asked for mercy of god before dying and god saved him from going into the hell
Hope it helps, I know some of those scriptures because of my roots🙏
This Video was a unique Experience thank you for sharing it with us 🙏🏻❣️
I loved the documentary... saw it sitting at the edge of my seat like you are reveling the most sacred mystery known to man...
this video is too fuckin dramatic for the subject we are talking about here lmao..
Least enthusiastic sample hunter
Agree☝️😞
Why is this lowkey creepy😭
Atill one thing is not clear. The audio quality of spectrasonics is very clear compared to the examples you showef and also clear of instruments. So where is the original audio of the performance that spectrasonics used for their recording?
Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion!
To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
Crazy story! Thanks for the work & sharing!
Honestly it felt like I was watching a Netflix documentary, great work!
23:57 this way of thinking is so backwards. we're talking about a sample pack with uncredited artists, why the hell would more famous singers be more likely to be featured on it? seems to me it would be the other way around to save costs. Also ML Vasanthakumari's voice definitely does not sound as close to the sample as you make it sound. If anything, the short sound clip of Archana M you played sounds closer. Actually I am willing to bet the artist who sang it is nowhere to be found on the Internet or anywhere else: it's extremely likely they paid a random singer local to the place where they recorded the sample to sing it. I know it's satisfying to say the "hunt" is finished, but sometimes we have to accept everything does not always have a satisfying conclusion, and it's unreasonable to conclude here with such little evidence.
Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion!
To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
The fact that this video exists is the best example of go outside and touch some grass I've ever witnessed.
😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂right thinking same thing broo
Cry about it
Bro Julian is such a cool guy ❤
Amazing video and hope the people who discovered it get all the credit they deserve!
amazing man. that was a great watch. cant beileve he found the vocal sample in omnisphere that deserves credit.
Ok maybe I'm missing something here or maybe they already tried this, but why ON EARTH would you not just contact Spectrasonics? If Spectrasonics recorded the sample then they would know who it was or would be able to find someone who was present at the recording of the clips for the Omnisphere pack.
Specrasonics would most likely have had a sample pack producer (as in finance and production schedule producer, not music producer) and that person would have put money down for studio time in a local recording booth. It's very likely that the singer of the sample is some local person that the producer knew if the sample was recorded in a country that is not India.
The crowning of MLV as the singer of the sample seems like a fumble here as it's very likely the singer is from the United States. Spectrasonics headquarters are in Burbank CA and it just seems like a stretch to say that they flew this random Indian singer (who probably doesn't speak English) out for a studio session so they could make a sample pack that isn't JUST about her or authentic Sanskrit music recordings. Studio time is expensive in case it wasn't obvious.
Of course the other explanation is that Spectrasonics paid for offshore studio time in India and coordinated with the Indian recording studio to bring a local woman in for a session, record some phrases, and then send those recordings to Spectrasonics for further processing. If that's what happened then good luck finding the woman.
In my opinion it's more likely that the singer is just some random person that either a Spectrasonics employee or an employee of the recording studio used for the HoA pack knows. It could even be a Craigslist booking for all we know.
Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion!
To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊
but you know I stay
INDSNSKRT is probably short for Indian Sanskrit, which seems to be the language the female is singing in.
I always thought those were some Japanese vocals but seems like that's not the case at all
The language in which the lady is singing is called kannada♥️
Random fact: INDSNSKRT30 was also used by Steve Vai in Voodoo Acid at timestamp 4.15
The delivery, the intrigue....i don't even know the song or the artists but it's like watching a crime mystery marathon. Lol love it. Good job.