Origins of the orch.hit

it's such a cheap thrill.

didn't kate use it in hammer horror? maybe not

FACTASTIC FACT - the ORCH5 noise is the VWAM bit from Stravinsky's "Firebird". Popular Music did an article about it a while back.

http://hollowsun.com/vintage/fairlight/index.html

That article was also presented as a paper at the EMP Pop Conference a couple years back. The abstract is at http://www.emplive.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=127&xPopConfBioID=261&year=2004

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=341267

Abstract

Perhaps the first digital sample to become well known within popular music was actually a piece of Western art music, the fragment of Stravinsky's Firebird captured within the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, the first digital ‘sampler’, as ‘ORCH5’. This loud orchestral attack was made famous by Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa, who incorporated the sound into his seminal 1982 dance track, ‘Planet Rock’. Analysis of Kraftwerk's ‘Trans Europe Express’, also sampled for ‘Planet Rock’, provides an interpretive context for Bambaataa's use of ORCH5, as well as the hundreds of songs that deliberately sought to copy its sound. Kraftwerk's concerns about the decadence of European culture and art music were not fully shared by users of ORCH5 in New York City; its sound first became part of an ongoing Afro-futurist musical project, and by 1985 was fully naturalised within the hip-hop world, no more ‘classical’ than the sound of scratching vinyl. To trace the early popular history of ORCH5's distinctive effect, so crucial for early hip-hop, electro, and Detroit techno, is to begin to tell the post-canonic story of Western art music.

btw there's got to be some other noize boarders geeky enough to appreciate this: when Prince's Black Album came out in 1988 I noticed 'Bob George' used one of the same samples that Jean-Michel Jarre used on 'Diva' from Zoolook, a sped up tape of a woman laughing while talking
and I just figured out where it came from -- it's Suzy Creamcheese saying the word "Bizarre!" on Zappa's Uncle Meat

-- milton parker (milton.parke...), December 4th, 2006.

Track 27
Fairlight Disk 27
Effects4
Name Pitch Notes
Bizzare "Bizarre"
CarHorn Car Horn
EngRev Short Rev
Heart Heart Beat, etc

http://pro-rec.com/samplecds.html

-- milton parker (milton.parke...), December 4th, 2006.

Duel/Jewel by Propaganda, maybe?