Samplants by Buttress O'Kneel
✂️WHAT IS A SAMPLANT?
reconstructing a song by finding words or phrases from other songs that say the same thing and transplanting those samples in the right order to create something that has the same lyrics but is completely different in every other way. (for the instrumental bits, it's okay to transplant samples from cover versions - the more different the better.)
each samplant is constructed from dozens and dozens of other songs. sometimes i downloaded a whole song for one single word (ie. the word "with" from Careless Whisper, used in Excuse Me Yahuda), but i preferred it when i could get a long phrase. i also preferred it when i could get a phrase or word from a well known song, the more well known the better.
the very highest tier of samplant? finding the words for a particular song in other songs by the SAME ARTIST (ie. finding the Hey Jude phrase "don't let me down" in a completely different Beatles song).
these are exhausting to make, and yeah, they're exhausting to listen to as well, i know. so there are only 5 of them. they are BEST ENJOYED with the original lyrics in hand, so u can read along - it's a wild ride.
✂️SAMPLANTS VOLUME ONE:
Beatnik Gasconade (Bohemian Rhapsody samplant)
Hypothesise (Imagine samplant)
Approximal (Closer samplant)
The Din of Taciturnity (The Sound of Silence samplant)
Excuse Me Yahuda (Hey Jude samplant)
Tracklist
| 1. | Beatnik Gasconade | 7:28 |
| 2. | Hypothesise | 2:35 |
| 3. | Approximal | 3:08 |
| 4. | The Din of Taciturnity | 3:39 |
| 5. | Excuse Me Yahuda | 4:57 |
Credits
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
“Words like "mashup" and "remix" don't really do justice to Buttress O'Kneel's method - Top 40 pop crap gets sliced, diced, and tossed into a dizzying, exciting hardcore electro stew. Compared to other djs who timidly drop a Vanilla Ice acapella over a Chemical Bros intro just to move a dance floor, O'Kneel shreds copyrights with a blood-curdling vehemence. Smash the state!”
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