In the 21st century, sampling has become an essential technique in pop music’s toolbox: from Britney Spears’ Toxic to Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso, modern chart history is lined with hits built on ...

A massive moment in the evolution of British dance music. "What were the skies like when you were young?" a man asks. A rooster crows and an aeroplane flies overhead. Rickie Lee Jones responds. So ...

In the early ’90s, “What were the skies like when you were young?” was the new, “Can you pass the acid test?” — the question that separated the turned-on from those left behind. Britain’s 1988 Summer ...

In the early Nineties, The Orb’s “Little Fluffy Clouds” took cheeky vocal samples and mushroomed them into something stranger and spacier. While rhythmically rooted in house music, Alex Paterson and ...

The Orb are best known for their 1993 release Little Fluffy Clouds. Catchy melodies, cockerels and jet planes were iced over with a hypnotic sample of Ricki Lee Jones describing childhood memories of ...