8 Tracks: Of Favourite Samples With Al Zanders

 
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This month marks the release of a new EP on Phonica Records. The latest in their prolific label series sees them invite the Sheffield based Londoner Al Zanders to deliver some groove focussed house just in time for Christmas. Al Zanders is a musician who operates under a variety of guises: perhaps you know him best for his edits and work under the name of Lodger? You might know him as AZ? However you have stumbled upon him we can guarantee that it has been in some form of enjoyable capacity because his music is bloody tip top. 

With a keen interest in sampling and the use of imagination he has crafted a signature sound which is taking him upon a merry journey. We asked him to select 8 tracks, pieces of music which depend heavily on their use of sampling. He picks tracks by Dj Rashad, Pepe Bradock, Jaylib and more. 

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Aphex Twin - We Are The Music Makers

My teacher played me this years ago during my Music Tech A level. The line always sounded familiar to me, then one day I watched Willy Wonka and there it was. Recontextualising something so well known into a trippy underground track makes this a really fun sample.

  • Aphex Twin - We Are The Music Makers

    My teacher played me this years ago during my Music Tech A level. The line always sounded familiar to me, then one day I watched Willy Wonka and there it was. Recontextualising something so well known into a trippy underground track makes this a really fun sample.

  • Madlib + J Dilla - The Message

    Inventive use of Stereolab, with a nice tribute to the Furious Five in there. Not being afraid to sample from unusual or unexpected places is what makes Dilla and Madlib so exciting for me, and it was this attitude that inspired my latest EP for Phonica.

  • Disco Revisited - Gonna Roc U All Nite (Gonna Roc-Strumental)

    A very simple but great chop up of Candido’s ‘Thousand Finger Man’ by Terrence Parker, with a beefed up bassline. A track I play very often that never fails to get a good reaction!

  • Sound Stream - Love Jam [Sst03]

    A recent favourite of mine, though I love pretty much all of Frank Timm’s music under his various aliases. The source of this one is less obvious than some of his other works, but the faint guitar chops and violin are most likely from a disco or soul song.

  • Iz & Diz - Mouth [Brad Peep's Remix For Friends]

    I watched a Red Bull interview with Pepe Bradock and he plays this track, made entirely from one acapella sample. The sheer level of creativity to make all those instruments out of one vocal sound is staggering.

  • Dj Abstract - Touch

    This was one of the first ukg/ dubstep tracks I got into. A really cool use of a quite cheesy 90s vocal sample, hacked to pieces and put into a very haunting context.

  • Dj Rashad - I Don't Give A Fuck (Hyperdub 2013)

    A Tupac line taken from the film ‘Juice’, morphed into probably the most jarring piece of music I’ve ever heard.

  • Jill Scott - Slowly Surely (Theo Parrish Remix)

    Found out about this from my friend Nick (Mr Beatnik). Theo recorded a voicemail that Jill Scott left him, after tossing a demo on stage at one of her gigs. This was then put on the track and put out as a bootleg, which I think is pretty cool. Also a moving piece of music that I thought would be nice to end the feature with.

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