What a bum rap for a nice, sensitive guy like me
March 2, 2016 8:22 AM   Subscribe

How a bit of detective work tracked down the original source of a sample that had mystified fans of the EDM/progressive house anthem "You are Sleeping".
posted by grahamspankee (8 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
Dude certainly deserves compensation as well as attribution on the spoken word vinyl front, whatever your feelings on the level of compensation and attribution he deserves on You Are Sleeping.
posted by Dysk at 9:33 AM on March 2, 2016


The Luke Chable mix is the definitive version of this track - I still play it out every once in a while, on house nights. The doublepack still holds it's value pretty well.

That said, this is a neat link about sampling and attribution - NRK records (much more than Yoshitoshi) did very good when sampling from various poetry sources (for example, Linda Clifford on Ride the Storm) but the early 2000's were a mess across the board.
posted by synthetik at 10:07 AM on March 2, 2016 [1 favorite]


Interesting story. This kind of resolution is very satisfying to me for some odd reason.
posted by bongo_x at 11:09 AM on March 2, 2016 [1 favorite]


This is an awesome find! As soon as I saw the post title I knew the song it was about, and I had always wondered where on earth the sampled vocals came from.
posted by Joh at 12:24 PM on March 2, 2016


Slipped into the middle of Scott Henry's The Politics of Sound from the early 2000s, I've been listening to You Are Sleeping regularly for probably fifteen years. It's haunting and has always seemed to be a warning against both blind, naive compassion and self-pity. This is so interesting. Thank you.

You do not want to believe.
posted by Appropriate Username at 1:44 PM on March 2, 2016 [1 favorite]


My own story with this track goes back to first hearing the Luke Chable mix in Deep Dish's Global Underground mix and like Appropriate Username finding the spoken words captivating. I remember attempting at the time and a couple of times subsequently to track down the source of the sample but with no joy.

Then last week a different mix popped up on John Digweed's Transitions podcast (number 597), triggering the memory and the old itch to track down the source. I was delighted to find that someone had managed to track down the original, and even more pleased to read the satisfying ending to the story. Even though John Harris should clearly have received better attribution, it was a good to find out that he eventually learnt of how his work had found new audiences.
posted by grahamspankee at 2:48 PM on March 2, 2016 [2 favorites]


Awesome article, thank you!
posted by Cpt. The Mango at 12:07 AM on March 3, 2016


Hey, I recognize that track from Balance 005.
posted by Rhomboid at 7:19 AM on March 3, 2016


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