It seems like it was just yesterday that everyone and their dog was sampling France’s finest pair of robot-producers, Daft Punk, with the likes of Kanye West, Janet Jackson and will.i.am getting in on the act. Having exhausted most of the Daft Punk back catalogue by now (c’mon guys, where’s that Raekwon joint with Indo Silver Club?) it would seem as though artists are taking the next logical step and rifling through Justice’s material for some dodgy samples.
The latest offender to get a case of sample-fever, or sample-delirium in this case, is London R&B/pop vocalist Nathan. Yeah, just Nathan. The dude takes the entirety of Genesis (the thunderous opener to Justice’s Cross album) for his track Dirty Sexy Money and proceeds to whine all over it, turning it into some kind of underground hybrid of Akon and T-Pain, complete with auto-tuned wails about being “international”. Fo’ real.
Obvious biases aside, we’d dislike the track even if it didn’t sample an enormous act like Justice because, basically, it’s bad. If you’re brave enough for it, check the track in the clip below.
Although we appreciate the mainstream attention and recognition that sampling can and most likely will bring to a lot of our favourite artists, we have to wonder where it will end. Can we expect the latest big electro acts like Passion Pit, La Roux and Bag Raiders to go through the sampling blender in a year’s time until we’re utterly sick of the originals as well as the re-interpretations? The sobering answer to that question; probably.
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