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Sampler

In Store Jam, a promotional compilation by Jamiroquai, also known as sampler


Baby's in Black

The song was recorded by The Applejacks in 1965 and released on a Decca sampler called The Lord's Taverners Charity Album.

Black Sails EP

It is a sampler of the band's fourth studio album Black Sails in the Sunset.

Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

He is currently part of the Spitfire Audio development team, a collection of composers and engineers that create sample libraries for the Kontakt sampler by Native Instruments.

Cross-stitch

In the United States, the earliest known cross-stitch sampler is currently housed at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 Limited Edition Music Sampler

This "exclusive music sampler" was available only to players who reserved the game before its release at major video game retailers such as GameStop or EB Games.

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme Limited Edition Music Sampler

These "exclusive music sampler" are available only to those who reserve the game before its release, typically at a GameStop or EB Games retail outlet.

Diaz Brothers

In spite of this, Hugo was not so quick to quit the Hip-Hop game, and took control by utilizing Lu's Akai MPC-60 sampler.

Elviss

These singles were followed up by the release of their "Dead Cat and Sharksick" (EP), which was essentially a 5-track sampler for the album before the release of a 3-track EP in late 2004 titled "Not Enough", which also seen Struan Robertson on bass after McConnell left the band to later join Babyshambles.

Ensoniq

In 1988, the company enlisted the Dixie Dregs in a limited edition promotional CD "Off the Record" which featured the band using the EPS sampler and SQ-80 cross wave synthesizer.

Everything and Nothing

"The Scent of Magnolia": Bill Frisell (guitar), Ingrid Chavez (vocals), John Giblin (bass), Ryuichi Sakamoto (string arrangement, sampler, piano), Andreas Allen (drum programming), Sebastian Morton (drum programming).

Extra Value

It was released in 2004 (see 2004 in music), as a sampler for their fifth album and contains three songs.

In My Time of Dying

One live version of "In My Time of Dying", from Led Zeppelin's performance at Earls Court on 24 May 1975, is featured on disc 2 of the Led Zeppelin DVD, and its promotional sampler.

John Wain

Indeed, he did contribute to Declaration, an anthology of manifestos by writers associated with the philosophy, and a chapter of his novel, Hurry on Down, was excerpted in a popular paperback sampler, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men.

Johnny Hollow

Within one month of the album's release, the band was invited to contribute their first single named 'Bag of Snow' to D-Side's sampler disc, to be in the company of artists like Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance, Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins, Type O' Negative, The Cramps and Goldfrapp, who all had a strong influence on the band.

Kaede: If Trans...

"Ash" was also featured on the sampler Behind the Mask, Vol. 2 and a re-recording later became a B-side on the "Myaku" single.

Langstrumpf Records

The T-Shirt Mein Freund ist Sauerländer (My Friend is coming from Sauerland), a promotion for a sampler under the same name, became well known in Germany.

LinuxSampler

Due to the decoupled design the sampler can be controlled with the GUI frontend(s) even from another computer, probably even running another OS like Windows or Mac OS X. SMP and cluster support is planned for future releases.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack

For much of the early 1990s, the Gamesampler, a subset of the Entertainment Pack small enough to fit on a single high-density disk, was shipped as a free eleventh disk added to a ten-pack of Verbatim blank 3.5" microfloppy diskettes. Games on the sampler included Jezzball, Rodent's Revenge, Tetris, and Skifree. A "Best of" disk of several of the games was also available at times as a mail-in premium from Kellogg's cereals.

Motormark

Their Ramones sampler 'Lets Go' was released on Jane’s birthday, the same day Joey Ramone died, and NME dubbed it as ‘nauseating'.

NuEdge Development

Founded in 1993 for the development and release of Typhoon, which is an alternative operating system for the Yamaha TX16W sampler.

Perfect Pitch Black

The songs "Down the Drain" and "Droned" were originally released on Bootleg CD by Cave In during spring 2003, and "Trepanning" was originally released in 2004 on a SXSW Hydra Head sampler (demo version), a Daymare Recordings sampler and a Deathwish Inc. sampler.

PowerHouse Books

They partnered with Charlie Ahearn on Wild Style: The Sampler, a behind the scenes look at Ahearn's 1982 film Wild Style, considered the first hip hop film.

Punk Rock Is Your Friend: Kung Fu Records Sampler No. 4

Punk Rock is Your Friend: Kung Fu Records Sampler #4 is the fourth compilation album by the Seal Beach, California record label Kung Fu Records, released in 2003.

Rhett Miller

American Songwriter named Miller their Writer of The Week for the week of June 25, 2012 and included him on their The Muse July Sampler.

Rockdelux

In April 1999, Rockdelux began to issue complimentary CDs as a free gift with the magazine, each one generally acting as a sampler for a particular record label, such as Warp Records, Fierce Panda Records and Sub Pop records.

S1000

Akai S1000, a 1988 16-bit professional stereo digital sampler

S3000

Akai S3000XL, a 1996 16-bit professional stereo digital sampler

Songs from the Underground

"Sold My Soul to Yo Mama" (a track made by Linkin Park turntablist and sampler Joe Hahn, which includes samples from songs "Points of Authority" and "Papercut"), was released exclusively for LP Underground 4.0.

Tea and Symphony

From Birmingham, they recorded two albums for Harvest Records, had one track, "Maybe My Mind (With Egg)", included on the Harvest sampler Picnic - A Breath of Fresh Air, toured Britain with Bakerloo (Blues Line) and were guests on John Peel's BBC radio programme.

The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965

A single-disc sampler, Highlights from the Plugged Nickel, catalogue CK 67377, was released by Legacy on November 14, 1995, and was reissued on February 1, 2008.

The Folk Sampler

The Folk Sampler is a nationally syndicated public radio (NPR) show, that showcases folk, blues, & bluegrass music both modern and old.

The Free Houdini

On a sampler of tracks from the album that was available for download from Pitchfork Media, you can hear that the song "Rapping 4 Money" is built from a sample of the Shel Silverstein song "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (Would Not Take The Garbage Out)".

The Gants

In 2000, Sundazed Records released Roadrunner! The Best of The Gants, with liner notes by Mike Stax; their single "Little Boy Sad" was included on Oxford American magazine's Southern Sampler music CD.

The Rocketboys

In January 2008, "Do I Wake or Sleep?", a song from the EP, appeared on the Paste Magazine sampler CD, and in 2010 several songs from the EP appeared on TV shows including Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Real World.

Thinks: School Stinks

"Fly Away" had earlier been released on a Marmalade record label sampler, 100 Proof as "To Fly Away", credited to Godley, while the opening lines and percussive rhythm of "Run Baby Run" were later reworked to become the basis for "Art For Art's Sake" on the 10cc album How Dare You!.

This Century

They then released the EP Hopeful Romantic (2010) consisting of three sampler tracks due to be on their debut album Sound of Fire.

Top Up TV Promotional Channel

A similar channel, known as Top Up TV Sampler, was also broadcast by Top Up TV between December 2004 and February 2005 on channel 36, presented by Alice Beer.

Useless Keys

White Noise Dead Bees Label Sampler No. 8 CD (May 28, 2009) Label: Dead Bees records

"White Noise" is featured on Dead Bees records' Label Sampler No. 8 which was released on May 28, 2009 at Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival.

Vinny Miller

He first came to musical prominence in 1998 as a 4AD signing under the moniker Starry Smooth Hound, releasing a track co-produced by Guy Fixsen (of Too Pure band Laika) on the label sampler Anakin.

Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders

The Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders were a series of promotional sampler compilation albums released by Warner Bros. Records throughout the 1970s.

WWIII Music/AMC

They have also released sampler albums such as: World War III Sampler 2001 which includes songs by bands like Hate, Imagika, Prototype and others.


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