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According to Max Tundra on Whosampled.com, the vocals heard on the track are constructed from several different records, with quarter-second long samples stitched together on an AKAI-1000. The synth hook heard before the beat drop is taken from Geoff Bastow's 1980 song, Electro Montage I.
"What I've done on this track (and similarly on a track from my third album called 'Orphaned') is a sort of Akufen-esque microsample thing. I got a stack of maybe five or six old records – not necessarily dance records – made sure the records were in the same key, and then found a quarter of a second sample from each one and stitched them. It would have been on my AKAI-1000 in those days, which is an extremely slow, laborious way of making music.
That loop you hear in 'MBGATE' doesn't exist on another record, I will have constructed that from hundreds of tiny little samples, which obviously doesn't make WhoSampled's job any easier. The Geoff Bastow one that's been found is the intro point into when the disco moment starts, but then once you're inside it, I think the other samples will be lost to the mists of time. Maybe some avid WhoSampled fans might find out what those little bits are."
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