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Hi! JWyvern here!
Um...
This is a video quite different from most of my other ones. This is what I'm
calling "an audio comparison."
Uh... back in, at the very least, the early 2000's (uh..)
an artist named Fatboyslim, most of you will probably be familiar with him
from his song
the most popular one "The Rockefeller ***", which goes, you know:
"Right about now!
The funk soul brother!"
Uh... but he released a CD called "You've Come A Long Way Baby". And the very first
track, "Right Here, Right Now"...
some of you also might remember this one... umm...
First off, I'm going to play it for you. So, here we go, let's just play it.
I'm going to let this go to, uh, just right after the first, uh, I guess you can call it "a verse". Fatboyslim songs aren't exactly...
...they're not exactly, uh, "traditional". *laughs* But this part: "Right here! Right now!"
"Right here! Right now!"
Alright! Here we go!
But this is that riff from the very beginning, that...
it goes... uh... listen to this riff, it goes *hums riff*
That riff right there...
I umm...
When I first heard this song, I was going, "Wait a minute! I know that riff!"
Because I do know that riff!
That riff
comes from
a video game,
or the very least, he sampled from it! Which wouldn't be surprising, Fatboyslim
sampled a lot of things.
But, it just threw me because
it was
very recognizable to me as the riff
from a video (uh, uh..) one of the...
uh... background musics to a video game I used to play on the PC called
Mech Commander! It was from
the Mech Warrior series and it was an (uh..)
RTS st... (uh..) type
game.
Where instead of being in one co... (uh..) mech, you commanded a (uh..) co... little
squadron of Mech Commanders as they went out and did your missions for you. Umm...
...but yeah! I recognized this riff! And I'll play the (uh..) actual song for you here!
It doesn't begin with the main riff, but it'll get to it.
That's like the exact
same riff,
you know, with a little bit of differences just because it is a
video game, so there were... there were (uh..)
...and Fatboyslim was only sampling a part of it, but...
regardless!
I first hear "Right Here, Right Now" and I'm thinking, "Wait a minute! I know this
song!" So...
it, it... I wonder, did Fatboyslim
sample from Mech Commander? Did he play it and was all, "Aw! That's cool! I should
totally use that in a song of mine!" or...
Did he just
happen
to "freak accident" - wise
create the exact same riff?
Which is also a possibility, it just...
...either way, it's kind of interesting to me! Because every time I hear "Right Here,
Right Now",
I'm hearing Mech Commander! I'm playing my game and I'm listening to Fatboyslim!
I... is it the s... is it a freak accident? Is it sampling?
I don't know!
If maybe somebody can, you know, if somebody does know, go ahead and write in my
comments! I'll (uh..), I'll be
more than happy to hear! But... this is kind of interesting to me!
JWyvern out, guys!