Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
Digable Planets’s “Time & Space (A New Refutation Of)” (1993) is built on Sonny Rollins’s “Mambo Bounce” (1953) — a sample that travelled 40 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
Sonny Rollins · 1953
The hit that sampled it
Digable Planets · 1993
Cue up “Mambo Bounce” and listen at 00:21–00:27 — that’s the passage Digable Planets lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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