Deconstructing DJ Shadow - The Number Song

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Below are the tracks he used if you want to listen to them in full.
Thanks to the community at www.whosampled.com/ for finding a lot of these samples. If you're looking for samples, this is a good place to start.
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Metallica - Orion
• Metallica - Orion (HD)
The Third Guitar - Baby Don't Cry
• The Third Guitar - Bab...
T La Rock - Breakdown
• Old School Beats - T L...
Don Covay - Bad Luck
• Don Covay - Bad Luck
He 6 - Get Ready (Daily Motion)
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2g...
Tony Avlon & The Belairs - Sexy Coffee Pot
• tony avalon and the be...
Creations Unlimited - Corruption is the Thing
• CREATIONS UNLIMITED - ...
Pearly Queen - Quit Jive'In
• pearly queen-Quit Jivin
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Flash It To The Beat (Live Bootleg)
• Grandmaster Flash & Fu...
Kurtis Blow - AJ Scratch
• AJ Scratch
Bobby Williams - Funky Superfly
• Bobby Williams-Funky S...
00:00 Intro
00:25 DJ Shadow -The Number Song
1:30 Metallica - Orion
2:30 Sampling Orion
4:33 The Third Guitar - Baby Don't Cry
5:33 Drum Sampling
9:30 T La Rock - Break It Down
10:05 Don Covay - Bad Luck
10:45 Kurtis Blow - AJ Scratch
11:25 Grandmaster Flash - Flash It To The Beat
12:45 Bobby Williams - Funky Superfly
13:15 Creations Unlimited - Corruption is the Thing
14:00 Pearly Queen - Quit Jive'In
15:20 Tony Alvon & The Belairs - Sexy Coffee Pot
16:20 He 6 - Get Ready

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Комментарии : 44

@wallacehardiniii9038 2 года назад

The fact that you understand and took the time to do this if f'ing mind boggling! Mad respect!

@KarlBoltzmann 2 года назад

Thank you! My world changed as a kid when I first heard Building Steam. It was on repeat for so much of my youth and this whole album means so much to me.

@andrewmoore5783 3 года назад

Probably is one of my favourite songs from the album - great to hear how it was put together. The main drum sample with the ride/crash cymbal all the way through is epic. Thanks.

@carlosconti4700 6 дней назад

This is an awesome breakdown! Here is the thing I LOVE Orion by Metallica and I LOVE The Number Song but I was today years old when I found out is was sampled. How did I not hear that?

@gingerelvis Год назад

I''ve always loved Endtroducing as an album along with funk and soul in it's own right but his ear for picking out samples and working them together is second to none!

@KarlBoltzmann Год назад

It really comes down to the producer being able to hear when a break or a sound is special and worth building a track around. Shadow is definitely one of the best at digging and finding new and interesting material to work with.

@daddydavisnc 8 месяцев назад

This deconstruction of the Numbers Song should win an award or something right?

@theneonchimpchannel9095 4 месяца назад

I never would have guessed that he sampled Metallica. The obscure funk songs were kinda what I'd expect but Metallica, that must have been a nightmare to get clearance for.

@KarlBoltzmann 4 месяца назад

That Metallica sample is one of my favourites. I appreciate his creativity to even consider sampling that bass!

@stewscottcurran 2 месяца назад

Awesome channel.

@babybro70 2 месяца назад

Amazing Stuff & Work!

@KarlBoltzmann 2 месяца назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@jamescassell4143 Год назад

great video ! thanks for taking the time to make this, learned a lot

@KarlBoltzmann Год назад

Thanks for stopping by James.

@daddydavisnc 8 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for doing this sir!!! This album has meant so much to me in my life since I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis around the time this album came out & I still play it today as if it just came out!!!!

@KarlBoltzmann 8 месяцев назад

Hey man, thanks for your positive comments! I appreciate it. This album will always hold a special place in my heart too. It's a forever classic. I wish you the best! Cheers.

@davidfox7983 5 месяцев назад

Great video

@cliffsnyder3620 3 года назад

It's so weird when I'm watching these videos and I hear something that's so familiar, but from a different context. In this case, it was the Grandmaster Flash sample around 12:06. I had to pause the video to go find out where I knew that from. Anyway, it turns out it was used as a sample on the Beastie Boys song Alright Hear This off Ill Communication. Great job on the video, as usual! Not my fav Entroducing track either, but I do really love the bass and drums hit right off the top.

@KarlBoltzmann 3 года назад

Yes! nice ear dude. I recognized it too because It has such a unique cadence but I couldn't figure out which track it was sampled in. Here's a link to the Beastie Boys - 'Alright Hear This' where the sample comes in for anyone curious ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QWu4OGbYsTk.html

@outled 10 месяцев назад

It's thrilling getting to peek behind the curtain, thanks so much for the inspiring work!

@thegreglowe Год назад

Genius

@edjwise Год назад

I remember a really really old article where he talked about the preamp on his generic DJ mixer. IIRC he said everything was sampled though that. That could answer the question you were having at 9:00

@KarlBoltzmann Год назад

That's a great point. It's impossible for me to say for sure without talking to Josh about it, but my guess is that the overall EQ of the drums/samples was likely a stylistic choice made by Shadow and Dan The Automator in post production rather than the result of that preamp on his mixer. It's just such a drastic change that I can't imagine a preamp doing that, but I am often wrong, so take that for what it's worth.

@Matisto1 3 года назад

Thanks for the video Karl! Always thought The Number Song was chaotic but fun, never realized he sampled Metallica.

@KarlBoltzmann 3 года назад

That Metallica connection was a surprise to me too! I read some interviews where he obviously didn't want to disclose where that bass came from (and now I know why...). Before I knew what it was, I was pretty sure that it was an obscure cello sample going through a chorus pedal or something along those lines.

@Matisto1 3 года назад

@@KarlBoltzmann Why do you think he didn't want to disclose where the sample was from? Did it have to do with copyright or wasn't it obscure enough?

@KarlBoltzmann 3 года назад

@@Matisto1 My guess is because Metallica has a history of being very litigious and protective of their musical properties. Naming Metallica in the interview would have brought extra scrutiny and possible legal issues. Also to my ear it's obscured enough in the mix that I'm pretty sure that even Metallica wouldn't have immediately identified it even if they somehow listened to DJ Shadow's The Number Song.

@Matisto1 3 года назад

@@KarlBoltzmann It makes sense in a world that was beginning to be what it is today (with music rights etc). Thanks for your reply!

@iamsneddon 3 года назад

Man I always assumed that Bobby Williams sample was James Brown.

@jonah5952 Год назад

this is so awesome man thank u for this!!! super helpful for trying to wrap my head around this stuff :D

@KarlBoltzmann Год назад

Hey, thanks! Happy the video was helpful

@arranone Год назад

Just awesome content - can’t thank you enough for this!! Like so many others, I’ve loved this album since the day it came out and still listen to it regularly today.

@KarlBoltzmann Год назад

Thanks, I appreciate that! I'm definitely in the same boat - these tracks all mean the world to me.

@HAZARDOUS88 3 года назад

Amazing work as always!

@KarlBoltzmann 3 года назад

Thanks a lot!

@hughchapman5319 2 года назад

such great tracks he was sampling

@KarlBoltzmann 2 года назад

It's a great homage to the artists he grew up listening to and clearly loved.

@paolospiccia6070 2 года назад

you are epic!

@scottking7186 3 года назад

That Orion sample is awesome. Entroducing was the first DJ Shadow album I ever purchased and have listened to it front to back many times, and growing up listening to Metallica, especially Kill 'Em All and Master of Puppets, I never picked that up. Is there some other effect or phase issue happening around 7:55 when you've just recompiled the drums from The Third Guitar sample? It sounds like a bit like a phone ringing, but maybe it's something to do with the transience? Sounds like some kind of funky feedback. It can still be heard in DJ Shadow's track too.

@KarlBoltzmann 3 года назад

Again, really good ear! I meant to talk about that a little bit. The "phone ringing" sound is the tone difference between samples of the drummer on the ride cymbal. Because the samples that are taken are far apart from each other in the drum break the tone changes abruptly with each hit and it's absolutely audible. I think Shadow turned down a bit more of the high than I did with the EQ to counter that effect, because it's definitely more audible in my cut.