… The way traditional musicians make a melody of their own – they listen to music all their life that influences that. And there’s a certain amount of chords and notes that they have to play with. All you do as a musician is reinterpret various combinations within those parameters. Which makes it kind of the opposite of plagiarism. Because plagiarism is when you’re trying to mimic and call it your own, and sampling is when you’re trying to take the actual thing and turn it into something else. You’re not calling it your own, you’re saying it’s a sample, and that’s exactly what it is. It’s made from other people’s music, and this is what I’ve done with it.“ © Amon Tobin
One of my fav things to do is to guess the samples in songs…So when I heard Kanye’s "Blame Game” I kept wondering why the heck that song sounded so familiar… About two hours later I had an epiphany… It’s APHEX TWIN! This is not the first time this awesomeness of a song has been sampled…. It was used for one of my fav SNL skits called “I Ran” with Andy Samberg… Check them out below…
Kanye West ft. John Legend - Blame Game Aphex Twin - Avril 14th SNL skit Andy Samberg ft. Adam Levine I Ran So Far Away