The Avalanches - Since I Left You (The Samples)

[thest0rmyblu]

who says "Welcome to paradise!"?

[gummy0yamyam]

yabeeeeeee



[patto2k]

This is amazing. Thank you so much. truly inspiring for us samplers.

[THEINDUSTRIALProject]

This was very helpful. Thanks for uploading this. :)

[EarlERizer73]

Total & utter respect to you RickyD for stripping these down & detailing, brilliant work.Thanks man.

[2theothers2]

Knowing this makes it better, but how did they go those acapellas!

[P0rn0ralle84]

i sampled that drum break 2 :-D

[Zer07jk]

Hear hear! what a fabulous clip explaining the samples. At the time Avalanches was just released it was a mind boggling experience for me to unraffle the samples. I came up with just the one of Klaus Wunderlich. What a DJ huh? hahahaha

[JakeDolfan72]

absolutely genius. I'd have to know just how they were inspired to put it all together?!~

[min3craft1ng]

i love this song its so sweet, and to understand the work that goes into the songs is trully amazing

[randomrold]

but where does the "grab a drink, welcome to paradise" part come from??? D:

[edwardmurrow84]

I am always exploring new music .... from being a gangsta rapper in high school to a college grad soon.... amazing how life passes by and changes. Ricky thank you so much for doing the work and finding the samples! Just turned 23 today and at 4:30 in the morning , i'm treating myself to the best present anybody can ever receive....... I read the comments and try to picture what walks of life people come from and how they felt like when these songs came out... must have been good times.

[theultimateducksfan]

I wanna know where the sample for that "this is my life" part comes from. I would love to find that out

[ryugabriel]

すげえな

[Vince929]

Love these guys, absolute genius. Take as long as you like with the new album guys! If it's half as good as the first I'll cream in my pants.

[DangBetch]

It's amazing how they found all of these different song and managed to put them together and make something so beautiful!

[banker81]

truly genius

[windigglesUK]

Such a wide array of music. So diverse. Put all together its divine. Wonderful

[rossomaguire17]

Thansk truly for this. do you know how many bands/songs ive discovered from bands such as daft punk and the avalanches sampling some great disco and melodic tunes. i fuckin love it. thanks for the video

[biglongbeard]

how on earth did these guys find all these ridiculous songs! so awesome!

[jilmjones]

man that just ruined the song for me haha!...like seeing behind the curtain in the wizard of oz

[NoUsernamesSir]

RE: Sample 3 -- I knew I fucking heard that shit somewhere.

[JoyGrenade]

I'm glad someone picked up where the Dust Brothers left off. The Wiseguys are amazing, too.

[CaptainFalco311]

Now I understand why it's taking so long for the new album

[rockomundo]

DJ Shadow,

The Avalanches,

Girl Talk &

Kids & Explosions.

[snic185]

@rockomundo where do you leave RJD2? or even J Dilla?

[kidfortoday70]

@rockomundo Girl Talk?? haha thats funnny

[NebSta7]

This makes me appreciate the song even more. Amazing! I think it holds alot for many ppl so to speak.

[miyalana]

Wow dude, how did you find all of this? You must have a SUPER mind to know all those different songs and then be able to bring them all up like this after hearing them all mushed up together in a song.

[LunarIce]

Amazing

[RoninAvenger]

Sweet that they had a doo-wop song in it

[PatchworkRobots]

the tony mottola sample doesnt sound right for some reason...

[BlackPowWowFilms]

Thank You.  Girl Talk is about 10% of what this movement in music (loops/mpc/mash ups, etal) is all about.

[rebaz]

how the hell did all the notes match, thats amazing work. its hard as hell to even match 2 different samples. this is why these people are master at sampling.

[MINSANEvideos]

Mixing genius!

[bestialoculapsus]

the only sample from this song that i haven't found yet is the one at the beginning that says (by the way the best line ever to introduce a record):

"get a drink a drink now, have a good time, welcome to paradise!"

i heard it's something from the Club Med

but haven't found exactly which one of those commercials are.

[EvilSpyro]

@bestialoculapsus Keep at it, I've been trying to find out for a long time as it seems to have generated a lot of people using the expression. Good work - unbelivable that these songs have been sampled together, imagine what some of the original artists, such as a small time band like the main attraction must be thinking!!

[don3001]

Great Song!. Amazing!!

[skyavalanche]

I'd swear "The Hustle" is in there somewhere..?

[v8dodge69]

Excellent song, really well put together. And thanks for posting this, I find it really interesting to see where all the different parts came from! Great video.

[CCPRec24]

Yall whoop ass sampling. Very classy work.

[rtonb]

Thankyou i love the since I left you album, thanks for sharing this, I love fining where samples come from :D x x x

[kurgancd]

Well this answers my question about how many songs are sampled in Avalanches song "Since I Left You." Huh.

[slussen]

thanks a lot for this post. The Klaus Wunderlich song in the end is incredible... It's a great track with the uncommon fusion of melodic sensibility, dreamy vibe and a great cheesiness with a precise funky rhythm. Ok, I'll rest my case... great post, this really shows what a good job the Avalanches has done.

[90sComputerGames]

True dat about 'Girl Talk'. All my friends were going nutty over his work freshman year of college; I couldn't listen to his stuff for more than a moment. I could never really describe why-- until now. His mixes are too pop-y-- they lack the richness, the warped clarity and distortion that past artists like DJ Shadow, Aphex Twin and The Avalanches deliver whenever they sample something. I guess I tend to gravitate more towards more controlled, orchestrated sampling.

[stevenjsmith1903]

amazing video never knew the song had song had so many samples

[nsns83]

amazingly sampling work!! Tks sharing!!

[GetGrayMusic]

just amazing/mindblowing/one-of-a-k­ind

[ukinsomniac]

I actually never realised it was that complex a tune. Which is a total credit to the sampling! Excellent!

[tomoyopop]

Wow, this must've taken a long time to make! Thanks! :)

[DAI3792]

this is sampling at its best

seriously this is the best sampling ive heard in a longass time

[MrCarlaki]

damn fine work fella!!!!!! well done!!!

[benjlm]

how could he change "met" for "left"?

[theoriginalbensteele]

THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THIS

[whannum]

nice job, its interesting to see where the guys got all those samples.

How did they ever thing to be "latin hustle" into a jam. Amazing.

[Dinker27]

Hey, Rickydown..there's a sample that I think might be hidden or uncovered yet. It sounds like "(can't quite understand it) makes me smile" if listened closed to. Think you can track it down? Or it might be something original from them, I dunno. x: Either way, good work. ^u^

[ZhenyaYufanov]

Great job!!! Thank You sooo much! Gotta subscribe to your channel Spasibo!!

[HalSamuel]

This is great, I'd love to see more of these. I have to say, even the most hardcore head, whatever they think of The Avalanches, couldn't knock the incredible sampling demonstrated on this track, and the whole album. They constructed Since I Left You out of a comparatively huge collage of sounds and made it sound effortless.

[ArtOfLosingMFZB]

This is great, I really enjoy these videos thank you! I've always been interested in hearing where each sample came from in the album, really makes you appreciate The Avalanches that much more knowing the amazing songs these samples turned into.

[skattbro]

great Work RICKYDOWN....

[paquitomoralles]

very nice video Rickydown! But u are missing the most important issue here....

WHO IS THE BLOND IN THE VIDEO???

[barney906]

Fascinating Stuff !

[groupmail99]

Brilliant analysis, Rickydown! Loved this band for years, never realised the sampling that went into this track. Still love the band.

[unconcerned]

wow well done! good work! Thanks :)



[sneakypakkun]

thank you so much for this!! This has been on my playlist for almost 8 years and I absolutely love how you broke it down into simple steps. You can see how much craftsmanship and raw talent went into making this jewel.

[madboyslim]

oh...

[colter13]

This is amazing. I have no idea how they came up with this.

[niledaj]

Thanks for posting this. Awesome!

[miniphase]

bloody brilyant!

[Mopedioadicomputer]

thanx a lot for the info, but u gotta admit, those aussie boys are geniuses at sampling

[Itzpower]

Amazing! Thanks so much for this informative upload.

[atarmsreach]

i fucking love you for posting this.

[idiotjay]

@atarmsreach this

[jhigh2]

Sampling perfection , create a magic new song from originals that otherwise

had been forgotten.

[caribind3]

Well that was pretty cool! Thanks for the info :)

[spongebobfan879]

Rickydown, how come the version here in this video has the full sample of Rogers and Hammerstein's "Younger Than Springtime" (at 0:30)? I have the original version of Since I Left You, and I can't hear that sample.

[flabtke]

@spongebobfan879

The sample of "Younger than Springtime" wasn't able to be cleared for the album I believe. A version with the sample intact can be heard in their "Gimix" mix, you can get it off their website.

[PatchworkRobots]

@spongebobfan879 because the "Younger Than Springtime" sample is on GIMIX, not on Since I Left You

[svantearrhenius1]

Thanks!!

[AparoidX]

The sheer amount of sampling that made up their album astounds me. It's not just a bit here and there, it's a TON in every second you hear. It's like they literally bought out all the records in a store and mixed them together. (They actually did just go through scores of records in a day to see what they had to work with.)

[GREENWARRI0R]

I've listened to this song so many times, that the pitched up part of the "Main Attraction" song sounds normal to me. Such a great song, and album. Musical genius.

[marksherlockireland]

the knowledge and the appreciation of music is aknowleded and appreciated by me.

[okieswith]

@scratchatune you are correct.

avalanches >>>>>>35,000 kilometers >>>girl talk

they did it 10 years earlier too.

[LastRowKid]

This is awesome

[Ph1l2007]

Wow, this is really, really, really interesting. Considering how the wikipedia article for this CD says that this whole album by the Avalanches probably contains somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,500 samples. Thank's a lot for putting this together. This is so cool!

[ECLECSIS]

OMG!!

It's fantastic.  PLEASEE:

EXTRA KINGS???

[Vandatta1]

this is just one of those albums where the impact just cant be made again

the people sampling and putting this together were just well...in the zone, i can't think of another word for it.

its just when you think of artists like girltalk who are trying to make music through the same concept, it just fails and lacks the the musical knowledge that the avalanches possessed in finding these samples.

[stickyfreshpurp420]

fuck you girl talk is the shit

[stickyfreshpurp420]

exactly. what gregg gillis does requires incredibly complex knowledge of DJ equipment and music software. which is precisely why he is so popular, because what he does is extremely difficult. so before you judge an artist i suggest that you have at least a basic knowledge of what they do past the obvious. i am above you both intellectually and physically. you are an ignorant child in the world, a cockroach groveling in the dirt of society. a nothing

[stickyfreshpurp420]

Vous recherchez un talisman pas encore jugé mai soient sur le terrain même si tu est dans le besoin la perle que vous cherchez est un gode parce qu'on aime à brouiller pénis dans la bouche

[stickyfreshpurp420]

the true sign of a genius... doing exactly what his enemy does. fucking idiot

[candlewhiskey]

alright u sound like a very unbiased and intellectual source, mr. stickyfreshpurp420. or should i refer to you as doctor?

[ggttjjnn]

Alreayd really loved this album and this just makes me appreciate it that bit more!

[scratchatune]

@Vandatta1 , your comment is about the best way to describe this track,, and i understand totally what you mean,, totally in the zone :)

everythin fits together like bacon and eggs ..

peace to the true hip hoppers

[scratchatune]

@Vandatta1 ive heard some of this girltalk stuff and its just not in the same league as the avalanches, just a load of cheesy turd , the jive bunny of sampling.. if your gunna sample and use the idea of sampling and the culture then at least respect it :)

[cooperiscool9]

@Vandatta1 so true. i enjoy girltalk, but in reality his music is just kinda gimmicky, a bit like many of the other mash ups floating around on the net. the avalanches are in a completely different league

[kidfortoday70]

@Vandatta1 I agree. I tried getting into Girl Talk, but in all honesty, it was nothing really special. The Avalanches take sampling to a whole new level...they create entirely new pieces of music. It's truly breathtaking.

[DannoHung]

@Vandatta1 Well, wait a minute, I love this album and I am not a huge fan of Girl Talk, but it's a little unfair to levy that argument against GT. He's specifically trying to do music that samples currently popular songs. The Avalanches have much dustier fingers. If there's someone you're gonna compare them to, it's gotta be like, DJ Shadow, The Go! Team or maybe The Kleptones if you really want to compare against "bastard pop".

[jeffreybiderpdee]

@Vandatta1 What girl talk does is different than sampling and I guarantee he would be the first to admit it. He does mash-ups which is basically remixing songs in to each other. Sampling is taking something old, obscure, and cryptic and then chopping and screwing it up to make something new. Since I left you in my opinion is an absolute masterpiece of sampling. In 300 years it will be an artifact

[djsreview]

@Vandatta1 daft punk do the same thing

[mista13er]

amazing video, so many samples on that track i can't believe it

[AlasdairD]

Great work on this vid.

[lemonhat256]

This is absolutely brilliant. Bravo!

[julianvu]

Absolutely amazing video! All this time, I thought it was Glen Campbell they sampled, but thanks to this video, I now know it was a Glen Campbell cover by Tony Mottola. Excellent work!

[shineyteeth]

AMAZING!!! :D Thankyou so much for this!

[MrTheDeepblue]

Excellent video. The Avalanches did an amazing job piecing all of these together. "Since I Left You" is extraordinary.

[jilmjones]

haha..great observation

[jilmjones]

@jilmjones but the avalches tune is still great nonetheles

[syno007]

genious! thank you :)

[tanyuj]

truly broken down. amazing job.

[eruption257]

I love when a song subverts a lyric into something different than what was originally meant. i.e., "Since I met you" = "Since I left you", or maybe "Claire" = "players" (Different song).

[eruption257]

Other things:

1) I own that Lamont Dozier record on vinyl. Got it at a garage sale where I bought out 5 crates full of LPs. :)

2) I need to know where the "Welcome to Paradise" bit came from. It's been bugging me since I found this video.

[paquitomoralles]

Lamont Dozier's "Take Off Your Make Up".

[eruption257]

@paquitomoralles THANK YOU. That's been bugging me for a while now.

[paquitomoralles]

have a drink!

have a good time now!

welcome to paradis...paradise...paradise.­.. :p

[lavalampgenie]

I think you are a GENIUS!

[75gta]

Thanks for this video! You must have "lost" a lot of your time looking for these samples! Great work!

[betterdaysdm]

WOW!

Great album. Great band , Great music

[massusm25]

one of the best sample producers of all time!!!!

[Elekodyl]

They must have a million things going up in their head, everything works so perfect! can't wait for the new album :)

[royaltenenbaum23]

Amazing video...makes me love the track even more!

[redrza]

WOW.

i never imagined so much work was gone into this

[jennyhaze]

I have a whole new appreciation for this song now. Great stuff. Good work.

[moyno85]

damn I always though that "Since I left you" line was sung by some saucy african american chick..... not some 60's funboy who's been pitch-shifted.

bubble = burst.

[LonesomeMoon]

Uh, it's not a man singing. Check the cover.

Woman in center wearing gray = singer

[moyno85]

wow, most androgenous voice ever.

[moyno85]

Brilliant work man, you find all these samples through your own detective work?

[wonsly]

is the original lyric 'since i met you'?

or 'since i left you'?

[Rickydown]

Its since i met you

[DJevilstereo]

Which is what makes that sample all the more genius, because it really does sounds like Since I "left" you.

[gazercmh]

Legend.

[ryanthescooterguy]

By the way, why was the Daddy Rich sample mysteriously used?

[NumberOneHipHopStar]

probably sample clearence problems.

[ryanthescooterguy]

I was just looking for this sampling series! Better than mine!

[theonegift]

I'd really like to know where the (I think this is what is said): "Promises my love" is from. You can hear it in the background. At least i think that is what is being said. You can hear it at 3:00 in this video, at its repeated throughout the song. anyone know???

[theonegift]

Very nice!!!

[NavinJohnson90]

Duuude! I'm so glad you're doing this.

Frontier Psychiatrist!!!!

[acousticrat]

This is great! PLEASE continue.

[famillioner]

What the track on "4. Beats"???

[smashtwisted]

OMG! Awesome find! Awesome video! I've been looking for these!

[marikun]

DAAAAAAMN!!!! How did you find out about sample #2? That one I never knew! Great video!

[DJevilstereo]

Nice videos, man! Been dying to see a video like this! One of my favorite albums ever.

Subscribed, please make more. ;D

[nakinyko]

Nice job explaining the samples!