Hello all, I recently got "African Anthem" by Mickey Dread and goddamn if there isn't a shitload of material that the good doctor lifted for samples.
From the track:
"Saturday Night Style" - "Now brothers and sisters goodnight. I hope you're feeling alright. We'll here's Michael Campbell at the controls to make things bright, to make you feel alright." And then in a female voice - "Oh, my josh. The music just turns me on." "Headline News" - "Featuring strickly rockers." "Rockers, duh rockers." I don't remember which orb song samples this but the rockers, duh rockers is in a track somewhere...might not be "duh." "Mickey Dread in Action" - "You make me feel so good." You know that sample from Assassin...and right after that is the sneeze and "Dread a control." "Comic Strip" - "Is that a turntable? Well, get on it. It's your turn." And then in a female voice, "Michael, you make me feel so good." "Brand new, good for you." "Operator's Choice" - "What, you're a disc jockey?" Laughter. "What's that?" "Mickey Dread come fi conquer, conquer, conquer..." This song also has the bell toll and scream that LX uses at the start of Towers of Dub. The track "Industrial Spy" also has the Meat Beat Manifesto sample from Psyche-Out - "Rythum a full a culture, ya'll." Some other samples that I know of come from Lee Perry's Blackboard Jungle Dub - "Regarding the meek and the humle, welcome to blackboard jungle. So don't you fumble, just be humble." I think the Slug Dub keyboard is sampled from the Miles Davis album "Get Up with It." The song is Calypso Frelimo. I can't be certain because I don't have that album - I've only heard live versions of the song and I don't want to shell out the $$$ at Tower Records to get the Japanese import of that one. Some of these samples might not look familiar just reading them, but if you heard them you'd know immediately that they were orb samples. Anyone else have some sample origins? -matt