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This section lists songs I've encountered that use samples of Kraftwerk sounds or songs.
This is a catch-all for things that don't quite fit in the other sections as well.
ARTIST: Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force
ALBUM: Don't Stop... Planet Rock 2000
DATE: 1982
NOTE: Most of the tracks on this CD are based on the
characteristic rhythm and melody of Trans Europe Express.
Kraftwerk is mentioned in the Special Thanks section of the CD
booklet.
TRACK: Original Vocal Version
Towards the end of this song is a sentence from Numbers.
TRACK: Classic Mix (by Elektric Music)
This track uses several Kraftwerk percussion samples.
ARTIST: Amorphous Androgynous
ALBUM: Tales from Ephidrenea
One of the tracks on this album uses a Trans Europa Express sample.
THANKS TO: Juan Vargas.
ARTIST: Beat Dominator
ALBUM: Techno-Bass
DATE: 1992
TRACK: Deep Dream
Uses a looped beat sample from the Computer World version of
It's More Fun to Compute.
TRACK: Bass Kraft
Uses three samples from the Computer World version of Home
Computer: The main theme, one of the reprieves and the bassline.
THANKS TO: Bud Bennett.
ARTIST: Big Audio Dynamite
ALBUM: The Globe
One of the tracks on this album extensively uses a Numbers sample.
THANKS TO: Juan Vargas.
ARTIST: Birmingham
ALBUM: Seismic Sounds 10 (v/a compilation)
TRACK: This Girl (Razormaid mix)
This track uses a distorted sample of the vocoded "Ein zwei..."
voice from Numbers.
ARTIST: Ch & Me (AKA Thomas Brinkman)
TRACK: Orange Green (Max Ernst)
Uses the seque from Pocket Calculator into Numbers.
THANKS TO: Toby Frith.
ARTIST: Chemical Brothers
ALBUM: Exit Planet Dust
TRACK: Leave Home
Uses a sample from The Voice of Energy.
TRACK: The Brother's Gonna Work It Out
Uses a sample from Ohm Sweet Ohm.
THANKS TO: Alex Kearney and Der Automat.
ADDENDUM: Erik Jälevik points out that in an interview,
the Brothers denied the Leave Home sample was a sample, saying they
created it from scratch.
ARTIST: Children of the Bong
ALBUM: Sirius Sounds
TRACK: Squigglasonica
This track uses the 'tschak' percussion sound from the
Man-Machine version of The Robots.
ARTIST: Computor Rockers
TRACK: Technosound
TRACK: Microprocessor
TRACK: Computer Science
TRACK: Computor Technology
All these tracks use the breathing noises from Tour de France.
The last one also uses a melody loop from Home Computer.
TRACK: The Return of the Computor Rockers
This one uses the phone dialing sounds from The Telephone Call.
THANKS TO: Erik Jälevik.
ARTIST: Kerri Chandler
TRACK: Digital Love Affair
Uses a re-arrangement of the cascading melody from Home Computer.
THANKS TO: Erik Jälevik.
ARTIST: Coldplay
TRACK: Talk
Uses the main melody from Computer Love. Apparently they wrote
a personal letter to Ralf and Florian to request permission and got it.
ARTIST: Covenant
ALBUM: United States of Mind
TRACK: Dead Stars
DATE: 2000
About 5 seconds into the song (10 seconds into the club mix), there's a nice
clear sample of the "ein, zwei, drei, vier" from
Showroom Dummies.
THANKS TO: Kip McCormick.
ARTIST: Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow
ALBUM: Brainfreeze Scratch Session
TRACK: (Second set)
Samples from Numbers.
THANKS TO: Rene Rives.
ARTIST: Cybex Factor
ALBUM: Techno Trax vol.1 (disk 2) (v/a compilation)
TRACK: Die Schopfung
DATE: 1992
This track uses an assortment of samples from the
Computer World album.
ARTIST: Death in Vegas
ALBUM: Satan's Circus
TRACK: Ein Fur Die Damen
The opening notes are almost the same as TEE..
THANKS TO: Frink
ARTIST: D'Cruze
TRACK: Life
Samples the main melody of The Model.
THANKS TO: Joonas V.
ARTIST: Delkom
ALBUM: Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty (v/a compilation)
TRACK: Superjack
This track incorporates several aspects of Musique Non
Stop.
THANKS TO: Eric Gartner.
ARTIST: Depeche Mode
ALBUM: Exciter
TRACK: Dream On
This track uses a sample from Tour de France.
TRACK: Sweetest Condition
This track uses a sample from Musique Non Stop.
THANKS TO: Lech.
NOTE: According to Frank X. Cordero, there is a remix of
Dream On that samples from The Robots.
This track uses a sample from Musique Non Stop.
ARTIST: Depeche Mode
ALBUM: Everything Counts (live) (single)
DATE: 1989
TRACK: Everything Counts (Tim Simenon / Mark Saunders Remix)
Samples the breathing sounds from Tour de France and the intro
sweep sound from The Robots.
THANKS TO: John Turpin.
ARTIST: Devo
TRACK: Post Post-Modern Man
This track uses sounds from It's More Fun To Compute.
THANKS TO: Juan Vargas.
ARTIST: DHS
ALBUM: Have a Nice Trip (Chris Sheppard v/a compilation)
DATE: 1993
TRACK: This is Acid
Near the beginning of this track there is a little melody that
sounds like a remix of the Speak & Spell sounds from the beginning
of Home Computer.
ARTIST: Dynamix II
ALBUM: The Album
DATE: 1990
TRACK: Bass Generator
Samples the word "generator" from Voice of
Energy.
TRACK Ignition
Samples the introductory German-language counting from Numbers.
THANKS TO: John Turpin.
ARTIST: Elektric Music
ALBUM: TV (single)
DATE: 1993
TRACK: TV
Almost all the percussion samples in this track are Kraftwerk
percussion sounds. Or rather, they're Karl Bartos percussion sounds
that are best known from their use in Kraftwerk songs during his
time with the group.
ARTIST: Ian Eskelin
ALBUM: Haven't You Heard (promo)
DATE: 1993
TRACK: Sears Auto-Motion Mix
TRACK: Trance Club Edit
These two tracks both sample the intro sweep sound from The Robots.
THANKS TO: John Turpin.
ARTIST: Fat Boy Slim
ALBUM: Better Living Through Chemistry
TRACK: Give the po' man a break
This track uses a huge sample from The Robots.
THANKS TO: Jules Seifert.
ARTIST: Fearless Four
TRACK: Rockin' It
According to a Scott Woods article in Eye magazine (Toronto), this
track samples the beat from The Man Machine.
ARTIST: Fergie
TRACK: Fergilicious
Samples the theme from It's More Fun to Compute.
THANKS TO: Stephan S.
ARTIST: Fortran 5 (AKA Komputer)
ALBUM: Blues
DATE: 1991
TRACK: Love Baby
For a brief reprieve section in the middle of the song, an echoing
sample from the Computer World version of Home Computer can be
heard. It is interesting to note that the track entitled Inanga on this
CD uses a good many Tomita samples as well.
ARTIST: Franz Ferdinand
TRACK: Walk Away
Samples or sounds similar to the opening of The Model.
THANKS TO: Mini-Me.
ARTIST: Freestyle
ALBUM: Freestyle
DATE: 1990
TRACK: Count Me In
Samples the counting from Showroom Dummies.
THANKS TO: John Turpin.
ARTIST: Frontline Assembly
ALBUM: Millennium
DATE: 1994
ALBUM: Monument
DATE: 1998
TRACK: Transtime
This track makes good use of a couple of KW riffs from Computer World
or Home Computer.
THANKS TO: David from Spain.
ARTIST: Girls On Top
ALBUM: Being Scrubbed
TRACK: I Want to Dance with Numbers
DATE: 2001
The B-side of this single is Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance
mixed with both Numbers and Computer World 2.
NOTE: Thanks to several KW mailing list members for this information.
ARTIST: Greater Than One
TRACK: Now Is The Time
This track starts with the German counting sequence from either
Numbers or Showroom Dummies.
TRACK: I Love You My Prince (title in german)
This track is based on the beat from The Robots.
TRACK: Ignorance is the Agent of Fear
Uses a sample from the opening of The Robots and the melody
from The Man-Machine.
THANKS TO: Mike Kumpf and Mary.
ARTIST: The Grid
ALBUM: Evolver
DATE: 1994
TRACK: Rise
In one or two sections of this track can be heard a distinctive
KW twanging rim hit sample.
ARTIST: Jay-Jay Johanson
TRACK: On the Radio
Contains a short rhythm sample from Music Non-Stop.
THANKS TO: Didi.
ARTIST: Kiko
ALBUM: Midnight Magic
TRACK: Running in the City
This track contains a sample from the Mix version of
Homecomputer overlaid with a vocal sample from some rap or
house track.
ARTIST: Ladytron
TRACK: He Took Her To A Movie
According to a Scott Woods article in Eye magazine (Toronto), this
track samples from The Model. Shaun Vaughan adds that the
background music IS The Model but the vocals are different.
This track was also mentioned by Ryan O, who adds that the Ladytron
song Commodore Rock also contains some sounds that seem similar
to The Model.
ARTIST: Le Hammond Inferno
TRACK: Move Your MP3
The opening segment of this song is supposedly very similar to that
of The Robots.
THANKS TO: Der Automat.
ARTIST: MC Lyte
ALBUM: Eyes On This
TRACK: Cha Cha Cha
Samples from The Man Machine.
THANKS TO: DJ Starseed.
ARTIST: Information Society
ALBUM: Hack
DATE: 1990
TRACK: A Knife and a Fork
The intro of this song features Florian counting to 4 in German, from
the intro of Showroom Dummies.
TRACK: Hack 1
This track has the sample of Florian saying "ein" from
Showroom Dummies and a rhythm and interlude effect from
the Computer World version of Home Computer. There is also something
that sounds like a rearrangement of a Kraftwerk melody, but I can't put
my finger on it.
THANKS TO: John Turpin for supplementary info.
ARTIST: Information Society
ALBUM: How Long (single)
DATE: 1990
TRACK: How Long (Psycholash Mix)
TRACK: How Long (Technolash Mix)
These tracks use (but do not sample) the melody of Pocket
Calculator in the second verse and in the breakdown.
THANKS TO: John Turpin.
ARTIST: Information Society
ALBUM: Lay All Your Love on Me (single)
DATE: 1989
About this single John Turpin says: "The b-side to their ABBA
cover is Funky at 45. It samples the German 1-8 counting from
Numbers. On the 7" record, the mix is identified as The
Augusta/Dusseldorf mix, tipping the hat to the birthplaces of two
of their main influences: James Brown and Kraftwerk. In fact, all of
the tracks where Information Society samples Kraftwerk, they also
sample James Brown, usually at the same time. (Except for How
Long.)"
THANKS TO: John Turpin.
ARTIST: Information Society
TRACK: I Like the Way You Werk It
ALBUM: Synthesizer
DATE: 2007
Uses one of the drum samples from Boing Boom Tschak and also a
sample of the melody from Hall of Mirrors.
ARTIST: Jay-Z
ALBUM: Vol.1 - In My Lifetime
TRACK: (Always Be My) Sunshine
DATE: 1997
This track uses altered samples from The Man-Machine.
THANKS TO: SRPOOL and Wade Shiflett.
ARTIST: Kent
ALBUM: En himmelsk Drog
TRACK: En himmelsk Drog
This track is said to have guitar riffs almost exactly the same as the
main theme of Das Model.
THANKS TO: Bernd Nuernberger.
ARTIST: Kiki
ALBUM: Midnight Magic
TRACK: Running in the City
Contains the intro sample from It's More Fun to Compute.
THANKS TO: Erik Jälevik.
ARTIST: King Bee
ALBUM: Royal Jelly
DATE: 1990
TRACK: Feel the Flow
The last half of this track uses the bassline from Home Computer.
TRACK: Rockin' Down the House
This track uses one of the common KW synthesized rimshot sounds.
TRACK: Cold Slammin' (Haunted Mix)
This track contains a few instances of the "One Two" vocoder voice
from Numbers.
THANKS TO: Craig Land.
ARTIST: The KLF (AKA the Jams AKA the Timelords)
ALBUM: The White Room
DATE: 1991
TRACK: What Time is Love?
During an interlude about 3 minutes into the track, you can hear
the ascending series of xylophone-like sounds from Home Computer.
It doesn't sound like a direct sample of the KW sound, but it is very close.
It could be a doctored sample.
NOTE: Rob Holman adds that an early version of this track, on its
same-titled single, was heavily based on The Robots but was
withdrawn when Kraftwerk's land sharks drew near.
ARTIST: The KLF
TRACK: What Time (Echo and Bunny Mix)
During an interlude about 3 minutes into the track, you can hear
the ascending series of xylophone-like sounds from Home Computer.
Unlike the un-remixed version, this is very clearly a Kraftwerk sample.
ARTIST: Kosheen
TRACK: Catch You
Edwin Burggraaf reports that this song contains a Kraftwerk sample.
ARTIST: LCD Soundsystem
ALBUM: LCD Soundsystem
TRACK: Disco Infiltrator
DATE: 2005
LABEL: EMI
Contains a sample from Homecomputer.
THANKS TO: J. Garcia.
ARTIST: The Look featuring Franklin Fuentes
ALBUM: Grind 2: All Night House Music Party (v/a compilation)
TRACK: March (Club Tip Mix)
Uses two of the Speak & Spell sounds from the beginning of The Mix
version of Homecomputer, and the synth hit sound from The Mix
version of Pocket Calculator.
ARTIST: M1
TRACK: Electronic Funk
This track doesn't seem to use any direct Kraftwerk samples, but it
does have a vocoded voice saying "Don't Stop" and
"Electronic Funk", and at the end there are whispering voices
like those at the end of Numbers.
ARTIST: Max Dre
TRACK: Thizzle Dance
Samples the "Boing Boom Tschak" sounds from Music Non
Stop.
THANKS TO: Gile Dorm.
ARTIST: Madonna
TRACK: Music
This song is said to be rhythmically based on Trans-Europe Express.
THANKS TO: Rob Holman.
ARTIST: Kurtis Mantronik
ALBUM: I Sing the Body Electro
DATE: 1999
TRACK: Original Electron
This song is said to be a great tribute to Kraftwerk, made up almost
entirely of Kraftwerk samples.
THANKS TO: muziknut2.
ARTIST: MCADE
TRACK: Bass Rock Express
Samples from Trans-Europe Express.
THANKS TO: August.
ARTIST: Meat Beat Manifesto
ALBUM: Storm the Studio
TRACK: Strap Down, Part 1
This track uses a sped-up sample of the German counting sequence
from Numbers, about 2/3 of the way through.
THANKS TO: Mike Kumpf.
ARTIST: Minus 8
TRACK: Badman and Thorbin
Contains a large rhythm section from Numbers.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.
ARTIST: Missy Elliot
TRACK: Lose Control
Reportedly contains a sample from Home Computer, but might
actually sample from Cybotron's Clear.
THANKS TO: Andrew Papakura, Ludwig Paris and Nicholas Dixon.
ARTIST: The Mistress and DJ Madame E
TRACK: I Got Your Wild Thing 12" EP
This track uses a sample of the heavy breathing from
Tour de France.
ARTIST: New Order
TRACK: Blue Monday
The choir sound in this song may be taken from Radioactivity.
There is some debate over this, as it has been pointed out that
the choir sound of the Mellotron MK-400 is identical.
THANKS TO: Erik Jälevik and Mikael Askernas.
ARTIST: Nice Device
TRACK: Divine Miss D
Contains a big rhythmic sample from Numbers.
THANKS TO: Dan Lumbye.
ARTIST: The Orb
TRACK: Little Fluffy Clouds (Heavyweight Dub)
Uses the percussion rhythm from Music Non Stop in a couple of
places.
THANKS TO: Tomasz Kirmuc.
ARTIST: Julius Papp
ALBUM: Move Your Body EP
TRACK: Tekwork
The main theme of this track is based on, and samples from,
Computer World.
THANKS TO: Erik Jälevik.
ARTIST: Phase IV
ALBUM: vs. the Rubber-Intruders from the Planet Baoh
TRACK: Air-Raid
Samples an effect from Electric Cafe.
ARTIST: Pink Floyd
ALBUM: The Dark Side of the Moon
TRACK: Time
This track begins with ringing bells sampled from Kling Klang
on Kraftwerk 2.
THANKS TO: Peter H. Jerg
ARTIST: P.M. Dawn
ALBUM: Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
DATE: 1990
TRACK: If I Wuz U
This track is just the instrumental part of Pocket Calculator
with some extra drums, vocals, and guitar samples. No credits to
Kraftwerk are given.
THANKS TO: John Turpin.
ARTIST: The Prodigy
TRACK: Smack My Bitch Up (Snackosmack Mix)
Contains a very short sample of one of the computer chirp sound
effects from the Computer World version of Home Computer.
ARTIST: Prophecy of P.A.N.I.C.
ALBUM: Manic Panic
DATE: 1994
TRACK: Transcend
Features a very long sample of the rhythm from Numbers.
THANKS TO: John Turpin.
ARTIST: Recoil
ALBUM: Bloodline
TRACK: The Defector
This track uses arpeggiated sequencer loops from
Homecomputer.
TRACK: Curse
This one uses a looped sound from Spacelab.
THANKS TO: Simon Storr.
ARTIST: Recall IV
ALBUM: Techno Trax v.1 (v/a compilation)
TRACK: Contrast (Boing Mix)
This track contains an assortment of samples from various Kraftwerk songs.
ARTIST: The Shamen
TRACK: Make It Mine (12 " Razormaid mix)
Contains samples from Music Non Stop.
THANKS TO: S. Mumble.
ARTIST: Sharevari
TRACK: A Number of Names
This early Detroit electro track contains a melody sample
from It's More Fun to Compute.
THANKS TO: Erik Jälevik.
ARTIST: Sieg Uber die Sonne
ALBUM: Live
TRACK: Angels of Mercy
This track is reportedly based on It's More Fun to Compute.
THANKS TO: Christophe Socquet.
ARTIST: Single Soul
ALBUM: untitled 12"
TRACK: Dance Maison / House Maison
DATE: 1999
LABEL: Housetime Records
Contains a looped bassline from It's More Fun to Compute.
THANKS TO: Brian.
ARTIST: Will Smith
ALBUM: Born to Reign
TRACK: Act Like You Know
Contains a sample from Trans-Europe Express.
THANKS TO: Martin Gertz.
ARTIST: Snap!
ALBUM: Madman's Return
TRACK: EX-Terminator
This track uses a couple of samples from Numbers at low volume in
the background for a few seconds. Interestingly the previous track
on this CD seemed to be a little bit against sampling.
ARTIST: Sun Electric
ALBUM: Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty (v/a compilation)
TRACK: O'Locco
This track uses a sample from Home Computer.
THANKS TO: Eric Gartner.
ARTIST: Techmaster P.E.B.
ALBUM: Bass Computer
DATE: 1991
TRACK: Bass by Numbers
This track makes effective use of the counting voices from Numbers
as well as a few Kraftwerk percussion sounds. Several other tracks
on this album use an occasional Kraftwerk percussion sound.
TRACK: I Like the Boom
Two or three times in this track, one of the voices from Numbers
can be heard in the background.
TRACK: Outerbass Mix
This track features various voice fragments from Boing Boom Tschak and
Music Non Stop.
ARTIST: Techmaster P.E.B.
ALBUM: It Came from Outer Bass II
DATE: 1993
TRACK: Phonz
This track uses the usual Kraftwerk blip/rim hit sound, and has some
Kraftwerk-like melodic elements in some parts.
TRACK: Robot Machines
The lyrics in this track make multiple references to robot machines
making a comeback. :)
TRACK: Technohaus
This excellent track uses the bassline and some effects from the
Mix version of Home Computer and some effects from Trans-Europe
Express.
ARTIST: Treacherous Three
ALBUM: Best of Enjoy! Records (v/a compilation)
TRACK: Rockin' It
This track uses a couple of samples from The Man-Machine.
THANKS TO: SRPOOL.
ARTIST: 2 Live Crew
ALBUM: As Nasty As They Wanna Be
Many tracks on this album use KW samples, most notably the last song,
My Dick Almighty, which uses a Man Machine sample.
THANKS TO: Juan Vargas.
ARTIST: Underground Resistance
TRACK: Electronic Warfare
Uses the breathing noises from Tour de France.
THANKS TO: Erik Jälevik.
ARTIST: Utah Saints
ALBUM: Utah Saints
TRACK: Trance Atlantic Glide
This one is hardly worth mentioning - there is a snare sample used here
that sounds like a Kraftwerk snare with the attack part snipped off.
ARTIST: various (Compilation)
ALBUM: Klangmaschine
LABEL: Ritornell
Alva Noto has a track on this compilation that makes creative use
of a sample from Die Mensch Maschine.
THANKS TO: Petter Ottosson.
ARTIST: various (Compilations)
ALBUM: This is Freestyle
ALBUM: This is Freestyle volume 2
Nearly all the tracks on these two albums use the same
rhythm (and some even the same samples) as the tracks on
Planet Rock 2000 (listed above) by Afrikaa Bambaataa. This
makes them Kraftwerk samples once removed.
ARTIST: The Villiage People
ALBUM: X-Mix Remixes (don't know which volume)
TRACK: Y.M.C.A.
This track uses a sample of the heavy breathing from
Tour de France.
ARTIST: Westbam
TRACK: Monkey Say Monkey Do
Contains a sample from Numbers.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.
ARTIST: Whodini
TRACK: Rap Machine
Samples part of the riff from The Man-Machine.
THANKS TO: C. Twomey.
ARTIST: Wyclef
ALBUM: The Carnival
TRACK: Stayin' Alive
Contains an unspecified Kraftwerk sample.
THANKS TO: The Blaq Sinattra.
ARTIST: X-Ecutioners
TRACK: Built from Scratch
Reportedly contains an unspecified Kraftwerk sample.
THANKS TO: Andrew Papakura.
ARTIST: X-Men vs. Professor X
ALBUM: untitles 12"
DATE: 1989
LABEL: X-Files
TRACK: Professor X (Saga)
Contains samples from Numbers, Tour de France and
It's More Fun to Compute.
TRACK: It's More Fun to Sample
Contains samples from Numbers and It's More Fun to
Compute, and of course the track title is a reference too.
TRACK: The X-Men
Contains a sample from Sex Object.
TRACK: Revenge of the X-Men
Contains a sample from Numbers.
THANKS TO: Brian.
ARTIST: Zero Degrees
TRACK: Extra Cold
Samples the main melody from The Model.
THANKS TO: Twingo.
Copyright © 2005-2012 by
Soleil Lapierre.
Last updated July 13, 2013.