this is honestly fascinating, there's no much where i'd just assumed the musicians played literally everything themselves, and that set such an unrealistic standard for what i'm able to make myself
Same - I didn't know anything about making music and was painstakingly trying to recreate some of these breaks in drum machines. I learned a lot about drum programming but then you dig through these sample cds and you're like holy f - you can make albums with just the stuff in here 😂
Literally same bro. From video games, to diverse movie scores, only to realize many of these sounds were samples or pre-made. The diversity in these samples is unreal lol. I get it tho. Why reinvent the wheel?!
These sample cd’s along with the “beats breaks & scratches” and “ultimate beats & Breaks” were very important to shaping the sound of 90’s Hip-Hop and Dance Music. Producers no longer had to buy endless amounts of records to get samples.
Pretty amazing. I was just watching a video on the making of the Fairlight CMI, and it's amazing how many of those sounds were used in music of the time, and even today. My ears always pop up when I hear some of those CMI samples, especially the famous orchestral hit.
6:45 is Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks but it gets even more fun. Peter Gotcher founder DigiDrums (later Digidesign > Protools) sampled them and put them on eproms for the EMU Drumlator. They advertised in the back pages of Keyboard magazine nd it was called "Rock Set 1" One of their customers Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears . Those EPROM sounds are the drums from the classic SHOUT.
Fools Gold definitely used a processed Hot Pants break, but yeah lots of breakbeat and jungle guys took the break from Fools Gold because it sounds fatter
Thank you so much for sharing this!!! I love finding out where smaples or texture packs from games come from and hearing a few of these i just know theyve been used in SO many vidoe games. And ANY time rabbit hole digging can be done I know I'll be spending hours on it.
The Aphex Twin sample is from the film Robocop, when the dinosaur's eyes bulge in the car commercial. In fact, the track is full of various Robocop samples.
The original Sample, which was "reused" by Zero-G is the "Shakuhachi" Preset from the old "Emulator II / E-Mu 2" Sampler, which was made in 1984. Peter Gabriel loved this thing, as well as other musicians (Depeche Mode, Jean Michel Jarre etc.)
I have these CDs. Except volume 3. Bought them years ago and there's great variety on them. The downside is, each track (99 or more of them) is made up of a dozen or so samples. So if you want to use just one drum break, you need to know which trach its on, import the whole track and chop it out. The now infamous Amen break is in one of vol 1 or 2. They've got interesting ad-lib and SFX on them too.
Lots of samples from these packs where used by David wise when he was composing for Donkey Kong Country. Also I believe it was track 4 at around 7 seconds in is the drumloop that's used for the main menu in Dragonball z Budokai(this is my own thought tho, not confirmed)
Ahhhhhhhh, I love this video. Here is one for you: "Zero G: Urban Elementz". The clap "Don Roberty clap" is the clap that is being used in "Neyo - So Sick", lol.
Well hold on a sec... Some of these samples were established long before Datafile came to be. Sounds like the "Enigma Flute" or that "Bird" were part of the Emulator II sample library (from "Loon Garden" disk), and their usage from artists using the Emulator was what established them. Don't get me wrong: Man Machine did an excellent job. But -intentionally- some of the material he picked, were samples that were already established by famous tracks, and considered as most wanted, by the producers of that era! Remember that back then, there was no internet, and no information sources on were to sample these sounds. So it was a dream come true, having everything in a single sound source. BTW: All samples were mono because most of the samplers of that era would not sample stereo. The booklet from the CDs mentions this as a feature along with the fact that each sample is played twice, so that you don't have to rewind your CD if you found something you liked. :)
Yup. For example the bird sound was used by 808 State in Pacific State a couple of years before the first Zero-G data file CD came out. The zero g data files definitely collated a lot of already fairly well known samples. I loved them. :-)
You’re right. These CDs were mostly compilations of well-established samples and breaks. Generally speaking, producers steered clear of already used samples so these types of CDs were just aimed at consumers and were often freebies attached to the front of music production magazines.
Another awesome video! I bookmarked the zero-g samples from your last video but I totally forgot about it until now. I’m gonna throw them on my Maschine+. I’d like to know more about who made that sample pack and why they chose these samples.
The idea that people worry about using samples when this has been the history for decades and average listeners don't even notice Wilhelm Screams or Amen Breaks is just never not funny to me. I wonder if there's a similar way/tool to trace lineages of Factory Presets of popular or iconic synths?
I remember an interview with Numan in the '90s where he talked about using a sample cd but didn't want to say which one, like he was using something obscure. LOL The weird chanting vocal at the beginning of Dead Heaven is also on this collection and featured on the bot twitter page.
This wa the most inspiration enducing video from tou ive ever watched. And morenimportantly, lintened! Thank you so much, going to go sample hunting now, thanks agaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin. Edit: have craked up multiple times listening to Aphex Twin "ambient" before 😂
@@RedMeansRecording Thanks for the answer! I grew up using Fruity Loops 3.5 and the following versions of FL studios and I thought I recognized your name from there. Maybe it was a different Jeremy / Blake.
Because of your last video i found out samples from Silent Hill soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka. Last minute of this video reminded me. At first i was so disapointed when i learned that he used samples and didn't made everything from zero, lol. But in the end the beauty is in the eye (or the ear) of observer. Now i have same packs, that Akira had, and its such a mood, there are so much more that wasn't used.
Spectrasonics - Distorted Reality 1 + 2 (Pads and FX), Big Fish -Titanium Rhythms (Betrayal drums), EastWest BT Breakz From The Nu Skool (Drums), Cuckooland Ghost In The Machine (FX)... yes, Akira used A LOT of Samples back than, but in my opinion, he did this really well.
how to sound generic step one: use these cds, lol... OH one thing i noticed ALOT most of the "pad" and "ambient" sounds seem to come from a JD-800 or similar layered sample based synthesis. I hear a lot of Yamaha SY and Ensoniq patches as well...
Sampling is recycling. It's good for the environment. Do your part!
The three Rs : Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Sampling is reusing, even better than recycling for the environment!
Yes! Sampling is culture
this is honestly fascinating, there's no much where i'd just assumed the musicians played literally everything themselves, and that set such an unrealistic standard for what i'm able to make myself
This is the kind of misunderstanding that inadvertently raised the bar for musicians though.
Same - I didn't know anything about making music and was painstakingly trying to recreate some of these breaks in drum machines. I learned a lot about drum programming but then you dig through these sample cds and you're like holy f - you can make albums with just the stuff in here 😂
Literally same bro. From video games, to diverse movie scores, only to realize many of these sounds were samples or pre-made. The diversity in these samples is unreal lol. I get it tho. Why reinvent the wheel?!
Somebody's got to make them though or they wouldn't exist
The Aphex Twin sample is from Robocop.
some of the first things I put on my Polyend Tracker; they felt appropriate as a "factory library". Also: the Third Strike soundtrack slaps.
The sample from 1:53 - 2:33 is also used by Yello, in the beginning of their track "Monolith"
4:21 that sample is in one of my favorite jungle tracks! RIP by Remarc
Yep I recognised it instantly 🔥
These sample cd’s along with the “beats breaks & scratches” and “ultimate beats & Breaks” were very important to shaping the sound of 90’s Hip-Hop and Dance Music. Producers no longer had to buy endless amounts of records to get samples.
When you played that "Pokémon" sample my mind instantly snapped to the Egg Emperor intro instead
how i learned to stop worrying about demonetization and love the samples
Certainly possible that the track that has Chuck D saying "bass" sampled it directly off the Public Enemy record, not from the sample CD!
Yup. That's true for a ton of the stuff on there. They're samples from other records.
Pretty amazing. I was just watching a video on the making of the Fairlight CMI, and it's amazing how many of those sounds were used in music of the time, and even today. My ears always pop up when I hear some of those CMI samples, especially the famous orchestral hit.
6:45 is Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks but it gets even more fun.
Peter Gotcher founder DigiDrums (later Digidesign > Protools) sampled them and put them on eproms for the EMU Drumlator. They advertised in the back pages of Keyboard magazine nd it was called "Rock Set 1" One of their customers Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears . Those EPROM sounds are the drums from the classic SHOUT.
The sample at 3:54 is used in the aphex track Soundlab20!
What a fun romp through history! These cd's must have been in every clearance bin all across the world lmao
The Fools gold is actually the stone roses original break I think, been used a lot in breakbeat hardcore and Jungle in the early 90s
Oh really? Damn that's very good to know lol. They're the ones who claimed my video
Fools Gold definitely used a processed Hot Pants break, but yeah lots of breakbeat and jungle guys took the break from Fools Gold because it sounds fatter
So that's not Reni playing the drums on fools gold it's actually the hot pants break? For real
They took Reni playing and layered it with another break (hot pants or funky drummer)to create the loop.
Great video Jeremy... keep on teaching the youth about the history & significance of sample culture.
4:22 Remarc used it :D it's in Remarc - R.I.P, classic jungle business
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What a blast from the past listening to these amazing "samples" !💥🎶👏🏽
Thank you so much for sharing this!!! I love finding out where smaples or texture packs from games come from and hearing a few of these i just know theyve been used in SO many vidoe games. And ANY time rabbit hole digging can be done I know I'll be spending hours on it.
I have some of these uncleared sample CDs. Not the data file ones but some of the other best service cds like 10000 loops cd etc.
The Aphex Twin sample is from the film Robocop, when the dinosaur's eyes bulge in the car commercial. In fact, the track is full of various Robocop samples.
The Shakuhachi instantly had me go "SLEDGEHAMMER!"
SHOW FOR ME
The original Sample, which was "reused" by Zero-G is the "Shakuhachi" Preset from the old "Emulator II / E-Mu 2" Sampler, which was made in 1984.
Peter Gabriel loved this thing, as well as other musicians (Depeche Mode, Jean Michel Jarre etc.)
Yeah me too, so suprised when some unknow drum &bass tune was the example 😂
That first sample was also in an Electric Wizard tune... damn this is a great rabbit hole
I have these CDs. Except volume 3. Bought them years ago and there's great variety on them. The downside is, each track (99 or more of them) is made up of a dozen or so samples. So if you want to use just one drum break, you need to know which trach its on, import the whole track and chop it out. The now infamous Amen break is in one of vol 1 or 2. They've got interesting ad-lib and SFX on them too.
2:33 - Also the intro to Prettty Green eyes by Ultrabeat :)
And the flute sound from Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer".
Oh. And the kead sound from Sadeness.
Lots of samples from these packs where used by David wise when he was composing for Donkey Kong Country.
Also I believe it was track 4 at around 7 seconds in is the drumloop that's used for the main menu in Dragonball z Budokai(this is my own thought tho, not confirmed)
Ahhhhhhhh, I love this video. Here is one for you: "Zero G: Urban Elementz". The clap "Don Roberty clap" is the clap that is being used in "Neyo - So Sick", lol.
I wonder, if this one was cleared by Zero-G. It originates from 'Chicken Grease' by D'Angelo and has been used on countless hits beside that of Neyo.
This is amazing, I was literally just listening to idioteque thinking “I wonder if anyones sampled this/is THIS a sample??” I guess I’ll find out
Thank you for this, Jeremy!
Well hold on a sec... Some of these samples were established long before Datafile came to be.
Sounds like the "Enigma Flute" or that "Bird" were part of the Emulator II sample library (from "Loon Garden" disk), and their usage from artists using the Emulator was what established them.
Don't get me wrong: Man Machine did an excellent job. But -intentionally- some of the material he picked, were samples that were already established by famous tracks, and considered as most wanted, by the producers of that era! Remember that back then, there was no internet, and no information sources on were to sample these sounds. So it was a dream come true, having everything in a single sound source.
BTW: All samples were mono because most of the samplers of that era would not sample stereo. The booklet from the CDs mentions this as a feature along with the fact that each sample is played twice, so that you don't have to rewind your CD if you found something you liked. :)
Yup. For example the bird sound was used by 808 State in Pacific State a couple of years before the first Zero-G data file CD came out.
The zero g data files definitely collated a lot of already fairly well known samples. I loved them. :-)
@@johnc.1759 Yeah! Great collections. Still have them at hand ... A lot of their material is very usable to this day.
You’re right.
These CDs were mostly compilations of well-established samples and breaks. Generally speaking, producers steered clear of already used samples so these types of CDs were just aimed at consumers and were often freebies attached to the front of music production magazines.
4:24 dj hype R.I.P. haha
remarc
@@etar I confused it with the remix
Yup, I had these discs too!
I think thats the shakuhachi flute from the emu emulator at around 2 mins 50. So a sample from a sampler.
Yup!
So freaking cool, thanks Jeremy
8:17 Action - by Orange Krush
like three minutes in and it's like what the hell, so many big bands used these?!
4:20 i heard it from remarc - rip (footwork jungle edit)
Thanks this was fun to watch. I had one of these cds come free with an sp202 back in 1999. Was better than those big fish ones I got.
6:45 this has to be made from when the levees break
Yeah I think so
The Arabic-Indian riff is Sehnsucht song
What else
Another awesome video! I bookmarked the zero-g samples from your last video but I totally forgot about it until now. I’m gonna throw them on my Maschine+. I’d like to know more about who made that sample pack and why they chose these samples.
This is how we do crate digging in the 2020’s
The idea that people worry about using samples when this has been the history for decades and average listeners don't even notice Wilhelm Screams or Amen Breaks is just never not funny to me.
I wonder if there's a similar way/tool to trace lineages of Factory Presets of popular or iconic synths?
The bot is no more on the twatter? Damn you Elonious!
6:44 pretty sure that was also used by Gary Numan in Dead Heaven. 😃
I remember an interview with Numan in the '90s where he talked about using a sample cd but didn't want to say which one, like he was using something obscure. LOL The weird chanting vocal at the beginning of Dead Heaven is also on this collection and featured on the bot twitter page.
R.O.B in the thumbnail!!!
Thanks for making this!
Such a wonderful rabbit hole
Also, nice hapax back there uwu
I saw R O B so I clicked , but also RmR ⚡️
Seriously great video here dude.
That first vocal might actually be pitched up, it sounds like Simon Shaheen perhaps?
Interesting, never used the Zero G data files. Got Jungle warfare all 3 volumes and use them loads and well as the plastic jam breaks.
Haha yooooo. RIP that twitter account, was so so good
I used to love these things. Would record loops into sound forge, trim them up, and chuck them into Acid back in the day. Fun times. 😅
I feel like I had alot of these that I downloaded between 1997 2003
So fucking cool, thank you. I love discovering samples in music, its just fascinating. I kind of want to make my own stuff now : ]
When are you going to do a review of t hat little orange keyboard in the background.
This wa the most inspiration enducing video from tou ive ever watched. And morenimportantly, lintened!
Thank you so much, going to go sample hunting now, thanks agaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin.
Edit: have craked up multiple times listening to Aphex Twin "ambient" before 😂
Such good fun.
Have you ever made any demo songs for the Fruity Loops (FL Studios) program?
No
@@RedMeansRecording Thanks for the answer! I grew up using Fruity Loops 3.5 and the following versions of FL studios and I thought I recognized your name from there. Maybe it was a different Jeremy / Blake.
memories
Needs more views
I don't think any of them were cleared back then to be honest. This is back when sampling was like the wild west.
This is fkn wild
Music is amazing
Recognized most but the 808 State one was most obvious
DaFunk too
Is the second one at the beginning of hip hop hooray?
There's a reddit post where someone chopped up and sorted zero g data files and posted them to Google drive.
That guy is a legend, saved me so much time
@@rorz999 all praise be to u/thatguy
Because of your last video i found out samples from Silent Hill soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka. Last minute of this video reminded me. At first i was so disapointed when i learned that he used samples and didn't made everything from zero, lol. But in the end the beauty is in the eye (or the ear) of observer. Now i have same packs, that Akira had, and its such a mood, there are so much more that wasn't used.
Spectrasonics - Distorted Reality 1 + 2 (Pads and FX),
Big Fish -Titanium Rhythms (Betrayal drums),
EastWest BT Breakz From The Nu Skool (Drums),
Cuckooland Ghost In The Machine (FX)... yes, Akira used A LOT of Samples back than, but in my opinion, he did this really well.
Love this.
This is extremely funn
Does anyone have a link to the Datafile booklets?
fun vid, nice to see you laughing
1:50 This is crazy xDD
6:45 That's Led Zeppelin right?
wut. this bot is fantastic. someone turn this into a daily wordle-type game. Dwordle?
Great!, my best regards.
lol this actually fun ☺️
madchester
In b4 the copyright strike
how to sound generic step one: use these cds, lol... OH one thing i noticed ALOT most of the "pad" and "ambient" sounds seem to come from a JD-800 or similar layered sample based synthesis. I hear a lot of Yamaha SY and Ensoniq patches as well...
Chris Pratt did NOT nail it. Sorry
Herbie Hancock also used in Assault Rigs for PlayStation watch?v=yh5q5mErz-g&list=PL8x7wHq_i5DcCi0QN2o-tVC5V6Lubx4ex&index=7
Does anyone have a link to the Datafile booklets?