How we made Beat Dis by Bomb the Bass

‘I was completely naive about sampling. Royalties didn’t cross my mind. If you were to make it now, you would need a good legal team’

I was working as a waiter in a Japanese restaurant and studying audio engineering at Royal Holloway University of London in the afternoons. I got into splicing tape and became fascinated by chopping things up and putting samples into a different order. I was 18 years old and completely naive. Royalties didn’t cross my mind. Sugar Hill Records – where we got the “everybody in the street” line – they were very pissed off and we ended up paying them a lot to use the sample as it was the song’s hook. If you were to make Beat Dis now, you would need a good legal team to track down the rights holders of all the 1960s and 70s records we sampled.

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