Filmmusic Sampled

Of course, it's a known anomaly in the pop/techno/remix world that they generally use samples of older music, to spice up their tracks. They've been known to use anything ranging from old blues, classical music to, yes, filmmusic.

Since I recently re-discovered that Jakatta didn't just use Any Other Name from Thomas Newman's American Beauty in his hittrack American Dream (formerly known as American Booty) but also Cliff Martinez' Traffic in a track from that very same album (Visions) namely It Will Be. And it doesn't stop there! He also used Gabriel Yareds Betty Blue (Cargo Voyage, to be exact) and remixed it into Feeling Blue, while Shawshank Redemption's Brooks Was Here can be heard in the remix of the Seal song My Vision.

So, is it an outrage, a theft? Or a warm hommage to filmmusic, putting the pianothemes of Thomas Neman out in the mass audience giving it the attention it deserves? Do you go "yay, how cool they used this track!" whenever you hear such a thing, or are you annoyed, saying to the others around you "they should have a listen to the real deal"?

I myself are torn in between. Having a fondness for dance music (when produced properly) I often find it quite exhilerating to hear 'my' beloved filmmusic in a different context. Yet I draw the line when people are praising the DJ for something he didn't do. Credits due, where credits due. I've read a review of Thoms American Beauty score where the reviewer blamed him for stealing Jakatta's pianotheme!

Still, whatever your opinion is, I thought it would be fun to look at all the examples where a filmscore is being sampled, to great or poor effect. Here's my full list:



...more to come! Which one's do you know?