Samples
Samples used by The Prodigy.
The Day Is My Enemy
A comprehensive list of samples that The Prodigy have used in their The Day Is My Enemy album and live shows in that era.
Awol Beats
Sample: "How many ways can you distort the human mind"
Taken from: Brain of Blood Trailer
Get Your Fight On
Sample: Drum break
Taken from: Finnish electronic group Pepe Deluxe's "Salami Fever" from album Beatitude released 2003. This very same sample was previously used on Take Me To the Hospital also.
Medicine
Sample: Opening melody
Taken from: traditional Bulgarian music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8xpThKeXHo
Nasty
Sample: "Eagle Break" melodic reversed sample in the middle of song
Taken from: theme from the movie 'Where Eagles Dare', starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.
Rhythm Bomb
Sample: 'I need a rhythm ...' female vocal
Taken from: Jomanda - Make My Body Rock (Feel It) (Supremely Clubbed) "(Make My Body Rock (Feel It), 1988)
Wild Frontier
Sample: pad at the beginning and end of the track
Taken from Sylenth 1 VST, preset [392: Firefly Arp]
Sample: Scream like synth in the middle part of the song
Taken from: Intelligent Hoodlum - Arrest the President (1990)
See also
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