Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You” (1998) is built on Hoyt Axton and James B. Lansing Sound Inc.’s “Balance and Rehearsal” (1973) — a sample that travelled 25 years to get there. In SAMPLE SAMPLE SAMPLE we spin the original and ask you to name the hit that flipped it. This one lives in the intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
Hoyt Axton and James B. Lansing Sound Inc. · 1973
The hit that sampled it
Fatboy Slim · 1998
Cue up “Balance and Rehearsal” and listen at 02:41–02:49 — that’s the passage Fatboy Slim lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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