This is rather stripped down compared to WhoSampled, which says that at least three tracks were sampled.
On a similar but more impressive note, if you can find the album-by-album analyses of Prodigy's and Fatboy Slim's records, you might be surprised as to how much they borrowed from seventies' funk — even though Liam Howlett grew up on hiphop and alt-rock, as evidenced by his 'The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One'. Howlett switched more to eighties-nineties' hiphop and house on the second album 'Music for the Jilted Generation', which of course sounded much darker, but went back to the seventies on 'The Fat of the Land', even though the overall atmosphere isn't much better.
There are also interviews of Norman Cook in his (presumably) home studio, where he has entire walls of shelves filled with old vinyls. Which is all the more impressive if you realize how little audio Amiga samplers, the go-to machinery in the nineties, could hold in their memory.
For a country with population smaller than my hometown which is considered backwater by our standards, it's remarkable that Iceland afaik had pretty good alternative culture: like the whole punk/new-wave scene, with entire festivals.
I've also heard it said, perhaps jokingly, that like half of Iceland's population have written a book.
Yeah, to my understanding he tried to move his previous band Mano Negra to Madrid, but that was shortly before it broke up for good — and with this solo album he finished production in Paris again.
Huh, I always thought that ‘Radio Bemba’ had something to do with Mano Negra (his previous band), especially since some of the songs were recorded by that band originally. Never thought to read up on it.
Also didn't know that this album is considered overplayed anywhere, as I'm not in those parts myself. =)Is that in France?
Supposedly the bill is specifically about removing this excuse, because it's been used in the past with other prominent cases too.