The most genius sample in all of music

For their song 'Colours' on their 2016 album Wildflower, The Avalanches sampled a song 'Where There's A Heartache" by The Sandpipers. The original song is in 3/4 time but Colours is in 4/4 time.

[ThePhoenixArchives]

I love The Avalanches. I can't decide which album is better. They all are amazing and top my most listened to band ever. (And that's saying a lot.) They never grow old.

Thanks for this video on Colours. This is an amazing track. (In a gem-filled pile of tracks.) I was wondering where the samples came from.

[lionelkentler]

great video! very thorough yet concise

[dxb]

Why did you not let us listen to Colours in reverse to hear the original sample and recontextualize the time signature? Also, Aunt Teresa, Please Tell Me a Story is the source of the "parrot talk" sample from Frontier Psychiatrist, cool they reused it.

[lepatrouilleur]

Hello David, Avalanches is cool, but what they do have been done, sometimes almost exactly, in the early 80's. Listen to the Mystery Tapes compiles by John Oswald, the pioneer of plunderphonics! Actually, The Avalanches is not bringing much more than this, and is also way more conservervative than the early work of theur Australain counterpart Severed Heads.

[Professional_idiot]

These blokes are genius man, everytime the sample goes from reversed to normal i go fucking crazy

[aricshuford]

Is that Logic being used to illustrate how the sample was manipulated? If not, what was it? Thanks.

[FloydMaxwell]

0:20 - what is that flat thing on that record ?!

[mikestand]

Respectfully this video comes off like someone who has only just discovered what sampling is. No, most songs that sample do not build themselves around a single sample. The idea of making a song from many samples is pretty standard for most hip hop beats between the 80s and 90s. Most of the different elements of hip hop beats take drums, bass, melodies and other elements all from different places. Furthermore, the idea of taking a song and reversing it is not genius or revolutionary, it's also pretty damn common.

[davids.]

David, I just discovered your channel and then discovered we have the same favorite album of all time. Amazingly uplifting in its own way. Sadly, I had the chance to see the Avalanches live some time ago and they were simply awful. Such a disappointment. Some things are better left on vinyl.