Samples used by Panda Bear on "Person Pitch"

[goldendome10383]

Genius

[RacismIsSchism]

thanks for making this,

[MonsieurRondu]

Well, this sure the hell beats Kanye West's samples.

[tbonevig]

I always thought that Kraftwerk sample was from the Mr. Softee truck.

[panda4panda]

This is good use of sampling, Noah did a great job at putting those in along with changing it up :p

Sampling is sampling, not like Vanilla Ice, who totally stole the beat from Queen -.-

Those who aren't familiar with ice ice baby and under pressure should just go see what I mean.

Panda Bear is great, when I get back into playing percussion, imma get myself the faux hair panda hat :D

[STEEZEMCGEE]

@panda4panda dude your dumb sampling is sampling and vanilla ice's song is a sample the only reason he got shit for it is because he didnt ask permission like panda probably did

[panda4panda]

@STEEZEMCGEE I said that? Sampling is sampling?

If anything, Vanilla Ice can go die.. OH WAIT DURHRURHRURH HE IS DEAD :P

My bad if I hurt your feelings about Vanilla bro, but you can deal with it, not like Vanilla was talented or anything :L which he wasn't :)

[STEEZEMCGEE]

@panda4panda hes not dead....

[panda4panda]

@STEEZEMCGEE NO REALLY?

[Armistice0]

I'm dying here. This causes shivers to run all over my body I don't know why. Panda Bear and all of the artists he sampled are simply, truly, amazing. Like I'm choking up, gawrshhh.

[g0pi3]

hey! let's all insult eachother through youtube coz a dude is trying to make music while wr sit on our fat asses! yeah! woooohh!!

[thebelltollsforthee]

Talent borrows, genius steals.

[mistax2k]

@beatlesrock4ever Oh... Sorry, I didn't realize I was up against a level 70 master of sarcasm. I wouldn't want to deprive you of the enlightenment you are seeking on youtube. You are an intellectual and that is why you believe it takes imagination to sample.What do you call it?.... "decontextualizing." I actually know what you are talking about, this morning I decontextualized the lasagna I had last night. Btw... Beatles won't rock "4ever"

[mistax2k]

@beatlesrock4ever yeah dude! totally! lets rip off other people's work and creativity and call it art!

Dr Dre is brilliant and so is panda douche!

[mistax2k]

fuck sampling, im glad these fuckers get sued. Parasites

[flibberjar]

The sample he uses for Comfy in Nautica is found in the song Jisas Holem ya Holem Hand Blom from The Thin Red Line soundtrack... it's the last note of the verse looped countinuously, as well as the claps... Unfortunately, I discovered this by trying to do the same thing :( it was weird, because it wasn't like i made the connection before hand or anything, I just really enjoyed the song in the movie and thought it sounded sample-able... but alas, it was already being used in my favorite song..

[thevibedied]

1:10 looks just like andrew vanwyngarden.

[modeONvalencia2]

YOU ARE MY GOD, I LOVE YOU

[slatersec2]

I LOVE THIS!

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

Great video. I remember when I found out that there were a lot of samples on Person Pitch, I was kind of disappointed. But when you breakdown how they are used, he definitely made his own thing out of them. Like on Bros, in particular, which is my favorite...that little bit of the Tornadoes guitar...it's completely different than the original, the way he uses it. Panda Bear represents the good use of sampling, unlike plenty of others who just build their song around the hook of another song.

[antmanxxii]

Bros also uses the intro measure of "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes.

[hugo297]

This might be a bit of a stretch, but I'm pretty sure that the piano line on carrots comes from the very first seconds of Brian Wilson's Vega-Tables.. which would also make the name of the song into sort of homage to Brian

[dirtisox]

The best sampling ever is done by The Books, in my opinion

[Deloreansyk]

@dirtisox Fucking yes.

[SleeperFactory5]

Wow this was really educational... I like Kraftwerk but Noah makes everything sound better.

[beef47]

comfy in nautica is a sample from the akira movie

[ultraviolet309]

1:47 on the left: Corey Feldman

[wiliamthesilent]

so cool! thanks for making this.

[EwanSheldon]

@Folloou rub a tub tub by the equals

the line at 21 seconds is echoed in the cat stevens half of bros

[benusherr]

ilovewavs dotcom/Effects/People/Sound%20­Effect%20-%20Two%20Children%20­Laughing dot wav

What pandabear/anco song is this from? Its bugging the hell out of me!

[Folloou]

@benusherr i think it's summertime clothes

[WeLiveToDanceAlone]

person pitch is the best album of the 21st century. period. 

[w4r7]

great job follou...you have a very keen ear and knowledge of earlier works especially of those you've tracked down from decca records....very impressive indeed.

[109Tyler]

avey tare ftw

[whoareyou342]

I can't stand sampling...

[unkommon2001]

Personally, I like all of PB's songs more than the originals. Not because I'm a fan, but, what he did with most of them is really amazing.

[merting]

He doesn't make his own music so I think I won't listen to this album.

[zackamundo22]

@merting ?? He is more of a musician than a lot of people out there. His vocals are awesome, he writes parts on top of all the samples he uses, and he can take a sample out of musical context and change the time signature entirely and still make it sound awesome. You shouldn't worry about where he gets the sounds from, he makes them his own and can portray what he's trying to say, and that's more than a lot of musicans can say.

[merting]

@zackamundo22 I listened to the album. Unlike most Animal Collective songs, I kept thinking about the samples when listening to it which was extremely disturbing. It's just.. it's like he couldn't make the samples his own. I don't know, I didn't like it.

[zackamundo22]

@merting Well, your opinion I guess, I thought it was a decent album! As long as you listened through the album, you can say whatever you want. I just got a little defensive when you said "I don't think I'll listen to the album" It made it sound like you didn't even try and give it a chance! haha sorry

[merting]

@zackamundo22 Whenever I say "listening" to an album, I mean to completely digest it. The misconception is normal :).

[zackamundo22]

@merting Well then touche my friend! Hahah.

[whoareyou342]

@zackamundo22 Stop comparing him to other musicians. Just because he's "more of a musician" than others. Is that what music has come to? Resort to one thing because it's better than what someone else is doing despite it being crap (subjective)? So we have to settle?... Fuck that. Again this is all subjective, but the way you're talking makes it sound that way.

[zackamundo22]

@whoareyou342 I'm just saying that a lot of the mainstream music that most of america listens to is.... simple, sub par, over processed, lame music! Panda bear, I feel, has taken his music out of the context I just stated above. Making decent, catchy, mainstream music. I'm not saying it's the best stuff in the world, but it's not a bad album at all! And don't try and tell me that Panda Bear isn't mainstream, because he is.... He's been all over every music site on the web! Good for him though!

[LimpBizkitFan4Lyf]

Interesting fact: This album was all made in Propellerhead Reason, vocals tracked in external multitrack software and imported into NN samplers, not on an a hardware roland (they are sponsored + paid to sell Roland products, see the "My Girls" video for an example) SP sampler. Panda Bear and Animal Collective self-consciously pretend they don't use computers to create their music to seem more like "authentic musicians". Heard it from the guys themselves, in person.

[getthis162001]

you have done such a great job..more please!! thanks

[raarset1]

thx for the post, as this is quite helpful for someone new to sampling like myself.

[thisisrobertb]

he drastically improved each of these (shockingly so)

[c8udyp]

Nice job!

[FierceSwitters]

this saddens me because all the parts I loved from these songs were from other bands. :( I wish I never had this knowledge.

[octopuscollective]

interesting to note that all the possible negative feedback people mention about sampling, seems to have led noah to strictly state that his next album tomboy will be "no samples"

[octopuscollective]

i like mariah careys tom tom rip for her fantasy song.

[ScurvyJohn]

Awesome, dude

[smudders86]

thanks man thats cool as hell

[xFarBeyondTheStarsx]

Do you simply avoid any legal mumbo jumbo by placing where the samples came from in the credits of your released album?

[MonsieurRondu]

@xFarBeyondTheStarsx I think you have to ask the artist or something.

[spongebobfan879]

The "tonight's the night that I'm going to ask her" vocal from Bros is from The Equals - Rub a Dub Dub.

The opening of "Good Girl/Carrots" is taken from "Radio Calcutta #2" from the album Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound. The start of "Carrots" samples "Enter the Dragon" by Lee "Scratch" Perry and the Upsetters.

The opening of "Comfy in Nautica" is sampled from "Tetsuo" from the Akira OST.

[dayv41]

pretty sure take pills has a sample from sam cooke - chain gang

[patto2k]

now where can we get the songs in a .zip pack.

[ensurePlus1]

folloou. you are a musical listening genius. good ear and musical knowledge!

[MOWYWewan]

it tells you the samples on the record sleeve. but great video never the less.

[guntforsure]

thanks.. that was really cool. i would love to know more of the samples.

[weaselidiotu]

everyone here is at least stoned !!!

[cactaceous]

Not really. Sadly, after watching this video I have lost some of the respect that I had for that album. I thought it had all come from his imagination and musical abilities. Anyone with equipment and enough money to clear the samples can make music now a days. That's boring.

[weaselidiotu]

That's not boring man!

[0AcrossAmerica0]

Your comment is incredibly misguided.

[guntforsure]

you dont really need that much cash. roland samplers are not that expensive and if you look around long enough the equipment adds up. i think you should give it a try. it takes imagination and the know how son.. the know how. plus this album is a fucking stroke of genius anyway you slice it up.

[silbertc]

you are retarded

[silbertc]

sadly...

[avegranum]

@cactaceous

I don't think anyone else could have listened to any of the songs the samples came from and thought: Person Pitch.

And that's why I love it.

[EwanJames]

Excellent,

Thanks

[closertolight]

wow!

[stovedale]

You guys are so high to be analyzing Panda Bear! I wish I was that high.

[cs655321]

Nice, but what about 'Tetsuo' in the opener?

[aukamacic]

yeh there's a couple of things left out like the intro to gg/c but whatev its all good

[TheMichiganStatement]

oh and also the sample for i'm not blows my fucken mind. how'd he distort it so perfectly where the voice formant bullshit changes from "eeee" to "ooo"? why yes i am stoned thx for asking

[TheMichiganStatement]

what the shit? is the cat stevens one really that perfect?? it sounds like cat was all like shit, i'll make this sound awesome and hope someone cool and preferably with a fondness for animals or something picks up on this. the whole scenario where he sampled that for bros just..makes too much sense. seriously wtf??

[alltheircharity]

good lookin, man. this is great.

[hamdigidy]

very cool vid, good job

[Konner]

Thanks so much, Person Pitch is so incredible.

[joelstagg]

Awesome video, well done.

[lifekiwi]

Kraftwerk! I knew I recognized that one.

[ALLCAPSARCHER09]

very cool vid, I'm very into sampling but it's typically with hip hop acts this is very interesting to see samples turned into indie/pop songs

[feloniousb]

I know of a few single sound samples dropped in too. Like a bird sound from the factory Reason sound effect bank (beginning of Bros) and the sound of an NYC subway opening it's doors. Bing-bong!

[megathom]

Great video! Is there anyone who could complete the project and juxtapose all of the samples?

[Folloou]

hey! thanks, see i wanted to do this but im just having a hard time finding some samples, and then some others were modified by panda.

[smoerly]

@Folloou  the song boneless is from the band called the notwist - boneless

[Folloou]

@smoerly i know, but panda did a remix of the song that is a complete rework of the original one.

[smoerly]

@Folloou yeah

[rwatson8]

What I think is great is how he was able to use these sounds from songs which he was probably pretty attached to and create a song that was completely original and different from the sampled songs. I imagine that takes a lot of focus and personal vision.

[afipping]

it does, ive just begun writing sample-based music myself...it requires many trips to and from the library digging in crates for sound fx cds, obscure albums, etc...then when u get home the real work begins! lol

[JWP321]

where the hell did panda bear find all this music?

[VasherBH]

He used to work at a record store, plus the fact that he has always been musically in touch with others, its only natural that he listened to such a variety.

[robbywhoisrobby]

for fucking real!

[mattgcn]

guy really likes the tornadoes it seems

[redeyeswyvern]

cool video man. in bros you forget to name "rub a dub dub" by the equals "tonight's the night that im going to ask her" that portion.

only a fuckin' dumbass capitalist would think that sampling is stealing hahaha

i think person pitch is a masterpiece

[MBArkestra]

I like how you just nonchalantly toss "dumbass capitalist" in to the middle of your post, like it's just an accepted fact that you're an idiot if you ascribe to capitalism on any level (of which there are many). Let's debate this via Youtube.

No but seriously sampling is fine with me as long as it's acknowledged somewhere and it's done artistically. Noah has a really beautiful touch with this stuff.

[redeyeswyvern]

well let's debate this via youtube. maybe my words were unfortunate. maybe i was drunk, maybe i was fallin sleep and posting shit on youtube. but seriously i think capitalism and the idea of private property let people think the idea of intellectual property that i PERSONALLY think is wrong, or partly wrong. when i write i book or a song, i am putting together the ideas of a thousand books that i have read in the past, or the thousand songs that i have listen.

[redeyeswyvern]

without spector, there's no brian wilson. without brian wilson, there's no person pitch or no in the actual form that we know. and that's fine because that's actually how it works. "A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own" Ralph Waldo Emerson.

sorry about my shitty english. peace!

[thewhimsicalwish]

ah! he used kraftwerk samples? epic!

[masparasol]

Great, thanks for sharing!

[pandafantastico26]

i just came across this video while listening to the tornados. I have to admit thats how rock music is. He's honest enough to sample.

[guiltyrocks]

this is really great

[dch101]

amazing.

how did you find these?

[edwardiansnow]

Why? Panda never claimed to produce the beats, it is a sample-based record. The skill lies in melding them together and adding his own sounds/vocals, which he has done extremely well.

[bariolaje]

@edwardiansnow i wrote a message months ago, and i have to say that after saying that i changed my way of thinking. you were right.

[edwardiansnow]

@bariolaje I'm glad to hear! Panda Bear really is one of the most intelligent musicians around today :)

[zeynoon1]

You dumbass. Of course you'd be disappointed. I doubt you're even american.

[bariolaje]

@zeynoon1 of course i'm not american (fortunately, if americans think like you). i just said what i felt at that moment. now i've changed my mind but comments like yours have not helped... what happens if you're not american?

[zeynoon1]

@bariolaje you have realistic and uninformed expectations.

[CJman327]

I want Panda's Daft Punk shirt! LMAO XD, PB's the shit. Cool video, by the way. :D

[4Colours]

heeeyy man what's your problemmmmmmm

[MBArkestra]

Technically an unreleased song, but does anyone know the samples used in "Laugh for a World Filled With Fantasy"? I know Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang" is one of them, but I can't pinpoint the rest.

[winechild]

that gothic voices sample is so ridiculous.

agree with everyone else, man's a genius

[funlovingmonkey]

Awesome thanks for this. Panda Bear is a fucking genius, not to mention the pure awesomeness of Animal Collective.

[MaxChaplin]

I like the pic of PB wearing a Daft Punk shirt.... so appropriate.

[xero1391]

in the 2nd part of "Bros", the vocals you hear muffled in the background are from "Rub a Dub Dub" by The Equals

[hexafur]

cool, i always wondered, now i know.thanks!

great album!cant wait for more!

[nickad101]

That Machaut sample is so awesome. PB managed to pick most moving moment of that piece.

[morpheus0055]

in that part of "carrots", where he sings, "listen in between your notes/there's something weird going on", it's the dubby bass from a lee perry song called "enter the dragon"...

[Montorsi]

Comfy in Nautica has a sample from the movie 'Akira', to be precise, the voices ('aaaaah') in the beginning.

[Folloou]

the movie or the soundtrack? do you have an mp3 of this, im planning on doing part 2

[AtomicMango]

It's from the soundtrack, a song called "Tetsuo".

[Somone23]

why is person pitch so perfect

[thefoolandthefeign]

i want to get down on my knees, lift my hands to the sky, and loudly proclaim my undying love for Person Pitch and Panda Bear. Yes, yes, yes.

[astrodronaut]

This is amazing! Noah Lennox is a genius if you ask me! How he uses these samples is simply to crazy to describe!

[candlewhiskey]

i want more of this

[bobanddavid90]

That use of the Gothic Voices sample is inspired.

[kylep87]

I love 'I'm Not'! I used to play Panda Bear when I would drive to work on Saturdays. So when i hear 'I'm Not', i always think about the drive to work...sorry in advance to anyone who reads this lame story...

[Chavo138]

Cool video. Thanks for posting.

[KeithCanisius]

Love that Im not track - nice video and info!

[swimmingsolid]

scott walker looks like thurston moore.....just thought id let everyone know.

[kajackyl]

I noticed that haha

[FLETCHAROIT]

panda does the samples much justice and then some.

[thevoodoowop]

you are a genius.

[poolisclosedaids]

so awesome. been trying to learn the Cat Stevens song on acoustic.

[RedArmada]

exposed?... um, this is cool as fuck

[midgetgemsheist]

DAYMN!!! STRAIGHT!!!

[MonsieurRondu]

@willlliw You're a funny mister XD

[TigerCatPanda]

wait that "u suck comment was supposed to be reply to some one else... sry u dont suck!

[TigerCatPanda]

he samples a lot of the royal royal tenenbaums in the Bonfire of the Vanities, i noticed at least

[CatalystDM]

Cool video.  Makes me want to look into The Tornados.

[superflywhiteboys94]

In his song "boneless" (the kind of remix of The Notwist song), he samples the opening guitar riff from the Brazda Brothers' song "lonely time".

[Blackasylum3]

Such a beautiful record.

[Sandbox666]

I KNEW HE DID TORNADOS!

[Somone23]

cat stevens one is my fav

[streetlightkid72422]

agreed.

[fahrigonzo]

the tabla part on good girl is from "Radio Calcutta #2" taken from the album Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound, released by Sublime Frequencies. im pretty sure.

[Folloou]

thanks a lot man!

[InsomStudios]

"sample based albums", from the start you know that they are using samples in a sort of "sound collage"

umm... this is exactly that...

[Folloou]

what i meant was that, "endtroducing", "since i left you" any other girl talk album or whatever actually sound like a sound collage...this one simply sounds like an album, you can barely notice the samples if you are not aware that it was constructed that way. it has its very own and unique sound even though it is made from bits and pieces of other people's music. he makes it sound his own, he creates a trade mark "panda bear" sound.check out the remix he did for the notwist if u dont believe me

[kzoohardyboy]

Very cool video - how did you find all these - there is way too much going on in his album

[Folloou]

I first found the Scott Walker one myself, and that kind of triggered a search for the others. I researched and with help from wikipedia and other sources i was a able 2 make this.Had a hard time finding the Gothic Voices one,but i ultimately found a sample on their official website,perhaps Panda used that sample!.Im 100% sure there are more.On "Carrots" there's a kind of dub sample,u can listen to it on this clip, must be something from Lee Perry, cause Noah gives him a shout on the credits.

[Folloou]

i personally find it really interesting,it is an album that relies a lot on samples, but at the same time it has an unique sound to it, and sounds really cohesive. other albums that make use of samples like "since i left you" by the avalances or "endtroducing" by dj shadow, are also amazing but they are "sample based albums", from the start you know that they are using samples in a sort of "sound collage" way, unlike person pitch

[TigerCatPanda]

u suck

[xtremeholymuffin]

Sarcasm, anyone?

Jeez

[bromortimer]

sweet post

[DoctorTchock]

Person Pitch is almost like a remix of sorts. Excellent stuff. He takes incredible riffs and bits and makes them into moving walls of sound.

[DylanScottMyers]

thanks! these were really cool to hear