The Most Mysterious Sample In Hip Hop

Production quality is top-notch, glad to be apart of it 🖤

I just love how this feels like watching a true crime documentary but is a doc about a yung lean sample instead, props

"INDSNSKRT" is short for "india sanskrit", one of the oldest languages.. carnatic music is usually in sanskrit, kannada, tamil or other south indian languages

SOS / Sound On Sound magazine interviewed Eric Persing, the founder of Spectrasonics, in the July 2000 issue, and they asked him about the Heart Of Asia sample CD in a section about vocal recordings: " Where do you find these great ethnic singers? " " Believe it or not, sometimes we just ask people if they can sing. On a road in Nepal, we passed a old peasant man carrying a huge load on a cart. We introduced ourselves and asked him if he could sing something for us. He sets down his load, we press record on the portable DAT and what comes out of mouth is one of the most powerful and passionate voices I've ever heard! He finishes his song, packs up his load and goes on his merry way! "

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hi I'm an Indian music producer, the omnisphere samples are short for: Indian Sanskrit NO... and sample no 31 says NAARAAYAN(One of the indian trinity hindu god). I guess they wrongly labeled the sample as sanskrit as it is kannada

That sample definitely deserves a 30 min vid about it

that fact that he keeps saying INDSNSKRT before each number every time is driving me nuts. cool shit tho

It's gonna sound cliché but Ginseng Strip 2002 was genuinely ahead of its time

Only piece of advice on these videos bro, if you spoke to an Indian music expert or something (a lil zoom call) - that would’ve added so much more depth and context - amazing video, keep going

great video but the vocalist is probly some random session musician and not the iconic MLV. imagine if someone wanted to find a sample that's from a jazz standard, so they listened to a few covers and thought it sounded most like ella fitzgerald. you wouldn't be sure it's The Ella Fitzgerald now imagine jazz is a weird foreign genre you never heard growing up and the particular jazz standard is ANCIENT and the usa has over a BILLION people in it you just would not be prepared to figure out which vocalist recorded anything, especially without speaking the language but what you did find is all top notch, apart from being overconfident of that one thing, you killed this video

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Two things: 1. The original vocal of the sample does not necessarily have to come from MLV. A trained ear could tell you that it’s most likely not her in the four loops, and also, she was quite old even during the time the Ginseng track was made, and the person who laid the vocals down for the sampling is definitely younger. The song itself is a prayer song from the 1400s, so it’s definitely not uncommon to have a lot of Carnatic musicians sing it. Here’s a hypothesis: Audio engineers and samplers go on literal adventures to find voices and sounds they could sample for posterity. Folk music and troubadourist culture is very much alive in the South Indian subcontinent, ranging from the Pakistani Frontier, Punjab, Kashmir and Balouch in the north to the various Carnatic languages in the South, languages such as Maithali in Bihar, eastwards to Bengal (which has its own treasure trove of a history of folk/troubadour culture) and the various tribes of East India and Myanmar. The original sampler might’ve just found a sweet, strong voice singing this common devotional song, be it from an anonymous, travelling troubadour or a companion, and recorded it, later to process it and lay it down as samples. As famously sung, “The hills are alive with the sound of music.” 2. That was fantastic, dude. I see a lot of comments futilising your effort, but this was a very well put together, methodical documentation of the search and find of various facets of a piece of “lost media”. And the community, and you in the end, jumped various cultural hoops to finally solve this puzzle. Kudos to you. It’s funny to me how my musical influences now were connected to the music of my homeland through such a cryptic adventure. Good going, best wishes.

samples come and go brah, but you know i stay

The pacing of this video is hilariously annoying its like hes trying to stretch everything twice as long as necessary

its crazy that archive people and people who find stuff with situations like this are rarely ever recognized and its kinda become a part of being a part of the archive community

Spectrasonics most likely just hired some random female singer to do the vocal loops. Honestly you could probably find the singer in the credits for the heart of Asia pack.

Great video, but when it comes to who sang on the loop is going to be practically impossible to find as they might have just asked someone who has trained in Carnatic music to sing bc songs in carnatic music function like jazz standards, where there's a good chance that smn recorded this at the singer's home even

this is crasy now we need lean and MLV linkup

i personally dont think either of the singers sound like the loop, its very possible theyre just a singer they hired that doesn’t record or release their own music so it truly might be unfindable. u cant say u found the singer when its not confirmable at all. i dont wanna seem rude though this video is very well made and enjoyable 👍❤️