What does Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger sample?
Built on a keyboard riff from 1979. The live version won a Grammy thirty years later.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger · Daft Punk, 2001
Where it came from
- Samples Cola Bottle Baby (Edwin Birdsong, 1979). The bouncy keyboard riff is sampled from "Cola Bottle Baby". Source: Wikipedia: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Wikipedia: Edwin Birdsong, MusicBrainz, DJ Mag
What it became
- Reworked as Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Alive 2007) (Daft Punk, 2007). The live Bercy version won the 2009 Grammy for Best Dance Recording. Source: Wikipedia: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Became Interstella 5555 (Daft Punk / Leiji Matsumoto). The video, made under Leiji Matsumoto, became a scene in Interstella 5555. Source: Wikipedia: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Remixed as Work Is Never Over (Diplo, 2007). Diplo's remix. Source: Wikipedia: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Sampled by Stronger (Kanye West, 2007). Daft Punk got a co-writer credit, which almost never happens in this story. Source: Wikipedia: Stronger (Kanye West song), Wikipedia: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, MusicBrainz
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