Submissions from 2020-05-21 to 2020-05-22 (1 total)

8/10 (for the song)
6/10 (for the birds)

Last night I listened to Sueno Latino, as an example of 'italian house' which is not 'italo house' (as a point of comparison for 'touch me' that had more an afro-cosmic root, which songs like touch me overshadowed in defining house-from-italy (??), so says bill brewster). The first thing that came to mind was those birds from the start of the song: -- where have i heard those birds before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXhqDeTSEl4

I knew they were from somewhere, but last night I thought they might be the same birds from something in franklie goes to hollywood. Tonight i revisited that thought, and they do not sound like the birds in 'welcome to the pleasuredome' which must have been what I was thinking :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVDC6kPCkWA

Earlier today, I thought maybe i was just confusing it with bird songs in rich king's honcho set (which starts out with a lot of bird songs) and -- late at night i was just had mistakenly assume it was, in particular, sampled somewhere: https://soundcloud.com/honchopgh/honcho-campout-series-rich-king?in=honchopgh/sets/honcho-summer-campout-series-1

But I listened to Sueno Latino again tonight, and realized it's the same birds from 808 State's Pacific State. Neat. I thought maybe I had uncovered some nice little trivia here, but -- then i just googled 'the birds in sueno latino and 808 state' and this is nothing new. Which, fair, if you listen to those songs, it's p obvious. P4K tells me that this is a "Sample That Keeps Coming Back" that it was also in Anaconda (which, also, has a 'Dayum' sample that I know is from somewhere, and it is too satisfying to uncover these to google this trivia -- too many rabbit holes)

Article that is the first google result:
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/474-anaconda-pacific-state-sueno-latino-and-the-story-of-a-sample-that-keeps-coming-back/
Article references a thread about the loon on DJ history, but it is no longer up. Wayback machine returned this, where someone asks the same question (what is that sample in 808 state and sueno latino):
https://web.archive.org/web/20170123170924/http://www.djhistory.com/forum/looking-for-tunes-that-use-the-loon-bird-sound

(aside: that thread was posted by someone who has a blog (in their signature) about documenting the weeds / flora in London, which is still up and still seems kindof active:
http://wildcornerz.blogspot.com/ - which is neat)

(other aside - DJhistory.com seems to be no longer up at all. I'm pretty sure that bill brewster managed that. (yup, confirmed, it is too EZ on the internet to be sure of everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJhistory.com -- no reference to it being down though)