Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
Daft Punk’s “Robot Rock” (2005) is built on Breakwater’s “Release the Beast” (1980) — 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
Breakwater · 1980
The hit that sampled it
Daft Punk · 2005
Cue up “Release the Beast” and listen at 00:00–00:21 — that’s the passage Daft Punk lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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