Serge has been covered a lot (see this incredibly long, but not complete list), and his songs have been sampled as well. Especially the Melody Nelson album proved and proves to be a fine source for big name-artists like Massive Attack, David Holmes and Beck. Recently I read that even De La Soul sampled Serge. For their brilliant De La Soul Is Dead album, two short songs nick from Serge-chansons, En Melody and Les Oubliettes.
I also bumped into this interesting site, filing the sample-art by a fella called Chenard Walcker (something tells me this is not his real name). Chenard used Serge's music for two projects, one ep (under the Nelson moniker, see picture) with songs constructed totally from his music, and a mash-up featuring the voice of jazz singer Oscar Brown jr. See here and here.
En Melody-sample:
De La Soul - Not Over Til The Fat Lady Plays The Demo
Nelson - Le Poinconneur
Serge Gainsbourg - En Melody
Cargo Culte-sample:
Mirwais - VI (The Last Words She Said Before Leaving)
David Holmes - Don't Die Just Yet
Massive Attack - Karmcoma (Portishead remix)
Beck - Paper Tiger
Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte
Thank you. I am always interested in hearing the use of samples in work I am familiar with. It's a shame that it's not easier to find information on these things. You generally have to stumble on it yourself. Not always easy.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenKeep on with the blog, I love it.
Brad.
je pense que tu parles bien le français tellement ta culture musicale française s'oriente autours de paroliers. je consulte ton blog très souvent et il est super mais il serait judicieux de pouvoir y metrre un lienn rss ou atom
BeantwoordenVerwijderennicolas
this nelson "song" is absolutly ugly, these songs don't work together, & the copy/paste work is not very interesting imho.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenwho's that guy?
Massive Attack's Title is Karmacoma and not Karmcoma.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThanks for your wonderful job