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Trying to find other uses of a specific sample
Was listening to the new album by Young the Giant, and there is a sampled quote that I recognize that I cannot place. The song is: This Too Shall Pass (YouTube link to song), and they use it right in the opening.
The sample in it's entirety is:
"There's a new and strange environment at first
Just suddenly finding yourself in orbit"
According to this article, it is from a NASA video archive of the moon landing. So my question is, is there an easy way to search the use of this specific sample, to figure out who else used it to help me figure out why I recognize it? If you recognize the quote, feel free to comment where you recognize the sample from, and maybe it is the same place I recognize it from
This site seems to try and track sample usage, here is a link to NASA samples specifically. I didn't listen to the specific samples, but the Young the Giant track doesn't seem to be in their db.
www.whosampled.com/NASA
Useful source, and I scanned each entry for another artist that I knew (since I did not know the name of the original NASA recording). Unfortunately, it did not turn up a familiar result. Cool resource, although not fully comprehensive. But doing a comprehensive library of sampling seems nearly impossible with modern music
It, or a similar sample, seems to also be used in "Game" by Rizha.
I don't know if this helps with your search.
Edit: A Reddit comment links to the following broken NASA archive link, commenting that it is a "ringtone" from or for the Astronaut known as Cooper. Unfortunately the archive links all seem to be a little messed up.
I found that same mp3 file on the NASA historical sounds page and it's definitely the sample being used:
Mercury 9: Astronaut Cooper Comments
cc: @IsildursBane
I also found a video with a longer excerpt from the same speech by Gordon Cooper, but I still can't identify exactly which speech it's from nor find the whole speech anywhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBO5r6CYvF8#t=1m22s