No idea what the techno sample is (or indeed where it occurs, to be honest. Is it the series of decending notes that occur over MC Lyte's rap?) The bird sample, I always thought, was probably from one of those Ray Harryhausen movies ("Quangi", anyone?) or maybe - and for some reason this is number one if my suspect list - "Q The Winged Serpent": http://www.geocities.com/jrgdawg/breviews/qreview.html I saw the movie years ago and I'm pretty sure the noise of the eponymous mythical beast is the self-same one that squawks and screeched above "What Time is Love?" John Not a Scot, just Scott-ish