The Anatomy of 'Marrs - Pump up the volume'

Sample hunting by DJ Prince

Samples:

1. Thats right dude, this got to be the greatest record of the year, check it out
-Lovebug Starski & The Harlem World Crew "Positive Life" from Positive Life, 1981 (12")
2. Pump up the volume, dance
- Eric B & Rakim I know you got soul (1987)
3. Morse FX
- Tom Browne Funkin for Jamaica (1980)
4. Brothers and sisters
-Introduction to The Soul Children's "I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To" (Wattstax: The Living Word, 1972)
5. Youre gonna get yours
-Public Enemy Youre gonna get yours (Def Jam, 1986)
6. Pump that bass
-Original Concept Pump that bass(Def Jam, 1986)
7. Pump pump me up
- Trouble Funk Pump me up (Sugarhill, 1983)
8. Chaaang FX
- Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown - Unity PART 3 ( Nuclear Wild Style )
9. Yeah Yeah
- The JBs more peas
10. Without no doubt
-The JBs introduction to doing to the death
11. Watch me
- James Brown Super Bad
12. Uh, au do it
- Unknown James Brown source
13. Stab FX
-Pleasure 'Celebrate The Good Things'
14. Drum break
-Kool & The Gang Jungle Jazz
15. Automatic push remote rap
-Mean Machine D.S.T & Jaluluddin Mansur Nurridin(Celluloid Electro LP)
16. Its Just begun scream
- The Jimmy Castor Bunch Its just begun
17. Female singing
- Stock, Aikten & Waterman Roadblock
18. Drum break with moog sound
-The Bar Keys Holy ghost
19. Put the needle to the record
-The Criminal Element Orchestra Put the needle to the record
20. Drum break 1
- Bobby Byrd Im coming
21. Drum break 2
-Graham Central Station "The Jam"(1975)
22.Dunya Yunis (Algeria), the title is: Abu Zeluf, taken from this album: Music In The World Of Islam, 1: The Human Voice
23. Scratching
- Fab Five Freddy change the beat

[lewis]

Everytime I hear this record I still think that it was an utter stroke of genius. Really.

How they managed to draw together all those style of music and make a ground-breaking dance track with it still blows me away 26 years later.

I was in my last year of High School when this came out and even then, I appreciated that there was some very exciting new music coming out.

[joelsimon]

Stroke of pure genius this song. Wish they'd released more..

[andreypolidor]

Jungle jazz was used in a lot of songs one that comes to mind is jades " don't walk away"

[randomthoughts]

Have the exact same disc in perfect shape here in Canada - LOVE IT

[TransistorBased]

Man they really had to go sample diving to put this together. Absolutely insane such a wide batch of songs turned out something so cool

Though the one thing I'm still curious about is the bitcrush on the 808 toms. I don't think many people were using bitcrush at the time so I guess they were just fucking around in any way possible to see what stuck

[wowmachineradio]

OH.MY.GOD. Thank You. George Krantz "Din Da Da" is something I've been looking for for 30 years! I had a remix of the entire song on a mixtape a German club DJ visiting my town kicked down to me. I took the tape on a road trip in 1989 and never knew any of the song titles or artists.... the only other time I heard it sampled was in PUTV. You've filled a hole in my life you don't even understand by doing this. Thank you again!

[eduardo_corrochio]

Easily one of the most notorious and interesting One Hit Wonders of all time. And it seems not one moment of it was original music. I was 21 when this became crazy popular; it was something of a phenomenon.

[horvoje_]

What a masterpiece - you really have to know all kinds of music pretty well to get all of those and put in a one great song. And also you have to know at least the same to detect the songs 30 years after.

[fcycles]

First time I saw 8-bit audio samples playing on an Amiga at the store... it was samples taken from that record! The audio-quality + ability to have multi-tracks mixed in hardware using a nice User-Interface... defined what the future will be like!

[fi-bp]

すばらしいです👍👍感動しました
大好きすぎるこの曲にはこんな深い事が隠されていたなんて🎵
ありがとう❤

[davidevans]

oh! my word.. what an incredible thing to do.. brilliant, thankyou for doing it 🙂 x

[alanhenery]

Great investigative work, we all loved that track 🎹🙃😁

[AlexParker]

Thank you man! This is great for resampling into the tech house movement that's happening!

[cannonmovietalesfan]

The sample from Love Ride was also used on the chorus of "I Can't Wait" from Nu Shooz.

[DubiousMixer]

Thnx for this. I'm currently working on a megamash, containing all originals from Pump Up The Volume.

[mixtapeloop]

Amazing very munch samples for this song, whole samples yield pump the volume.

[leandrov.-argentina]

Genial info . Y mas genio el que mesclo todos esos sonidos para crear pump up the volumen . Gracias por compartir la data .

[tomprice]

now that's some crate digging. props.

[jazzy-pizazz]

nice one! some i had, some i didn't. much appreciated. keep hunting!

[VictorMoruzzi]

Amazing. Great job. Thanks so much. Keep rockin'.