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The Funkmasters - It's Over 1983 bit of Britfunk "I can't believe it's over" title line pitched up in Nick OD "Have you got any Spam?" off Spam (ep) this also uses a similarly sped up "You used to hold me so tight" from I think Thelma Houston's 80's track of that name although I'm not 100% sure so someone might want to confirm this. This track was sampled/re-recorded quite a bit in 88/89 and I'm pretty sure this is it again...

Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova (1960's) First of jazz samples used in Nick O D - Jazzy Hardcore

I better apologise. I finally got round to listening to the House Crew track again. Funny what time and various other things can do to your memory. As the House Crew and Run Tings aren't even the same sample/tune I could have sworn they were but the House Crew sample is definitely NOT Gwen McCrae. On the other hand the Run Tings still sounds like Gwen MCrae and Keep the fires burning to me. Wish I still had my copy of her track but haven't had/heard it for years.

DMS "Love Overdose" uses a vocal sample from Fleetwood Mac Big Love (1987)

maybe im incorrect and it's just a coincidence that the lyrics AND the melody are virtually indistinguishable..I've only heard the two hardcore tracks at their correct speed (ie pitched up) but from just that it'd pretty impressive to tell the difference. Even if the Midway track was actual the sample source for Run Tings/House Crew it cetainly doesn't rule out Midway getting hold off the original tape or an unreleased accapella and using that on Set It Out after all the track was made in New York sometime between about 1983 and-1985 just after Gwen Mccrae made hers in 1982 possibly in New York and for the same market. Probably didn't but its not impossible and it would explain away a bloody strange coincidence, After all this was the first era of sampling and loads of stuff was going on in disco/hiphop/funk (Cashflow Mine All Mine and Fatback Band I Found lovin for instance not sampled but weirdly exactly tune but allegedly neither a cover) even rock bores like Big Audio Dynamite (some of the Clash) were doing it.

Further to my starting of another thread for this ...apologies for that...did a search and nothing came up...

I'm pretty sure about this one...in my very youngest very underage clubbing days in 1982 Gwen Mccrae "Keep the Fires Burning" (the actual title) was played all the time in the first club I used to regularly go to (Tuesdays in High Wycombe...it was a big undeground track everywhere at the time (pirates, dance clubs, weekenders etc) hence its popularity a few years later with producers a lot of who would have heard it as young teenagers or even younger back then)...i think it was even on one of the Streetsounds compilations (very popular dance compilations at the time...same company as streetsounds electro compilations). It's obviously the same tune although obviously sped up on the samples. Surprised this one wasnt on here at the beginning. Gwen McCrae used to sing "Keep the fires burning, keep the fires burning keep them burning hot hot...you've got to (forgotten the next couple of words) you've got to give it what you've got".. About the talk of Midway etc...never heard this it was extremely obscure (over here anyway) I remember it only as a track on a breakdance compilation and if it is connected surprised it didnt run into copyright problems for plagiarism as the melody and words on the samples are exactly the same as Gwen McCrae. Production House often used the same samples in different tracks but its obvious Baby D "Daydreaming" wasn't the original source of this sample. The only thing I can think to explain this contention that it is Midway is that Midway used the Gwen McCrae track in some way...after all this Midway was obviously coming from a mid-80s, disco/poppier end of break dance scene and reusing bits of other tracks had obviously been a staple of such records since at least the early 80s.. Was Set it Out the same as Set it Off which WAS massive over here in the mid 80s in a load of versions Harlequin 4's , Strafe (i think the original but Harlequin 4s was bigger in UK), Masquerade (British cover) etc as I see that there were supposedly a lot of versions of Set it Out but can't find any plausible others listed on discogs with exactly the same title...

The Daleks' "Exterminate!" sampled throughout DMS - Exterminate

this track also samples Mr Sulu saying "the aliens are coming" throughout

"Take this brother" dialogue line from the Beatles "Help" film (I think Ringo Starr says it) used in Noise Factory - Behold the Jungle.

Lyn Collins - Think About It (1972) "We've got to use what we've got to get what we want" sampled from spoken intro used on Noise Factory - Behold the Jungle.

Abba - Lay All Your Love On Me keyboards sampled (but could possibly be re-recorded) on Noise Factory- Behold the Jungle

Beverley Craven - Promise Me "You look like you're in another world and I can read your mind It's four o'clock in the morning and it's starting to get light" throughout Orca - 4am

A-Ha - Take On Me keyboards sampled on Yolk - Bish Bosh

Gwen McCrae - Keep the Fires Burning (1982) House Crew - Keep the Fires Burning Run Tings - Fires Burning Noise Factory - Noise Factory title line sampled in these