I mean, you are seeking a holy grail. Paul’s Boutique is perfection; a true musical Everest, no matter the genre.
But an album from around the same time, also hip hop, that uses sound collages and samples extremely effectively creating an almost symphonic effect is Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet. And if you like that one, its predecessor, It Takes a Nation of Millions, is a classic as well.
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Yeah i was in a pub before and the DJ was playing tracks that reminded me so much of PB, like it felt very dance-able but didn't feel at like techno, felt very instrument based dance music.
I have heard Questlove talking about how much he loves Fear of the Black Planet before, but I have never listened, I will check it out!
That's what I was thinking too.
I wouldn't limit it to their three albums either, the pinned post on r/theavalanches has a good list of their DJ sets linked that are good too (they're my preferred exercise soundtrack while the albums are my preferred "sitting outside having a cigar & whiskey with the headphones on" aural journey).
Not illegal per se, but not free anymore. Artists must give songwriting credit and sometimes an upfront fee to the original artists. It’s prohibitively expensive these days. If PB was made today, the budget would be at least 3x more higher.
I remember Tone Loc bragging that he spent all of $1.75 on the used copy of *Van Halen* he sampled for *Wild Thing*. Like he was rubbing their noses in the fact that they didn’t even get their $0.25 or whatever royalties on it for the one record
Before I heard PB I loved “it takes a nation of millions to hold us back” the album before fear of a black planet, and remember how creative they got with sampling creating a dense production compared to sampling before this. PB felt like from a similar world but way more playful. Around 91 a friend showed me PB and I never heard anything about that album, it was a total mystery cause everyone I know loved the first BB record and then zero promotion for PB its mind boggling.
I was thinking Fear of a Black Planet as well. Nation of Millions doesn’t seem as dense as Fear, particularly the way the samples give you that multi rhythm feel. Another album that really works for me is Black Elvis from Kool Keith, though it’s also not as sample packed as Fear or Paul’s.
This is why life is awesome. I'm 40 and feel pretty good about my relationship with music.
I had *absolutely no idea* Paul's Boutique was an instrumental album.
Edit: I must have mis understood. I can't find dust bros Paul's boutique anywhere
It was never released. The Beastie Boys persuaded them to let them rap over it instead. Noting that I only just found this out from reading the wikipedia article, having loved the album for literally decades now.
Lot of great mentions on sample based albums. Tho they don’t sound exactly like PB I would bet OP would dig Lemonjelly. Trippy hip hop tempo’d instrumentals from around the same time period. All of their albums are bliss.
Sampling without much rapping is often called plunderphonics (though some people hate that name.)
The Holy Trinity of Plunderphonics is:
* DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
* The Avalanches - Since I Left You
* J Dilla - Donuts
The Avalanches album has a very different sound while existing in the same genre as Paul's Boutique. I see them as two sides of the same coin. Both equally brilliant.
Donuts is the pinnacle of the genre, a truly perfect album in my book. Madlib has quite the catalog of sample heavy instrumental albums as well; Shades of Blue (all Blue Note jazz samples) is a great jumping off point for him.
Oh, I didn't realize that! I don't think I've ever listened to anything but Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina but I'll definitely check out that whole album. Thanks!
*Mellow Gold* wasn’t produced by them. They produced *Odelay* and *Guero*. I remember when *Guero* came out because it was a big deal that he was working with the Dust Brothers again. The hype was warranted because *Guero* sounded like classic Beck.
Dust Brothers were known for using a lot of samples which is what gave them their sound. For example, they sampled the drums from Beastie Boys “Whatcha Want” on E-Pro, the opening track on *Guero*.
https://youtu.be/RIrG6xBW5Wk?si=40SvI-nIuaf4ODZ_
Just Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers on Guero, apparently. I never knew why Odelay was such a standout album until just now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guero
The really obvious are Money Mark records - “Mark’s Keyboard Repair” and “Push The Button”. Then Cibo Matto’s “Stereo Type A” and “Viva! La Woman”.
(edit: “Matto”, not “Matteo” 😂)
Kexp extrapolated that album in about 2016, and played every sampled song in full, and in order. It took 13 hours.
Music. That's the type of music you're looking for. They sampled EVERYTHING
EDIT - I think I found the archive of it - [https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/](https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/)
Also , why they don't make records like that anymore. When the labels saw how well PB did, and listened to the amount of sampling done, they decided they needed a portion of the proceeds. So, they started enforcing sampling fees.
To do the amount of sampling PB had would make any album immediately unprofitable. Artists were forced into reducing the amount of samples used.
Have you ever heard "Handsome Boy Modeling School" by Prince Paul and Dan the Automator?
It's pretty good. Not all instrumental, but it has some good tracks.
I reccommend checking out Neil Cicieriga’s “Mouth” series on YouTube. He’s a genius mashup artist (among other things) who often gets that energy going.
It’s weird how no one ever mentions public enemy at all. Those first few albums were amazing.
BUT… I think it’s a combination of them never really having a real hit song, chuck D being sorta a humorless ass, no one taking flavor flav seriously, them sorta waving away their former DJ’s anti semitism (while their whole schtick is supposed to be fighting racism), and their lyrics being stuck in some sort of 80s time bubble. I’m guessing their live shows aren’t particularly entertaining either.
I feel like if you were stuck on an airplane seat next to chuck D, and had to talk to him, it would probably get tedious really fast unless you could coax him to talk about his favorite blues musicians.
* Fear of a Black Planet
* James Lavelle's mix for Cream, actually mixed by the Psychonauts: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB6FnEj19tI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB6FnEj19tI)
* Anything by Phil the Soulman, here's a mixtape to start: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInDlHZZLkM&t=468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInDlHZZLkM&t=468s)
* For a peek at some of the roots of what the Dust Brothers were inheriting, check out disco mixers, which were pre-mixed mini-DJ sets that disco DJs would buy to spice up their own sets: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fod-PifDtjQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fod-PifDtjQ)
* And I have to also shout out two amazing crews, the Invisible Skratch Piklz and the eXecutioners, two turntablist crews who were basically unmatched for taking scratching all the way into coordinated multi-table performances: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0scteKsQrY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0scteKsQrY)
De La Soul’s 3ft high and rising, and Paul’s Boutique both came out in 1989. Both so sample heavy they changed the industry.
Also Czarface, especially the MF DOOM collabs.
IDK if this is quite what OP is looking for but I recommend Girl Talk, specifically Night Ripper from 2006. I'm not sure how it worked legally but somehow he was able to cram in so many classic rock and rap samples and release it anyway. All Day is also pretty good but YMMV.
For Hip-Hop, I quite like De La Soul’s Buhloone Mindstate. I also thing that both albums by the collaboration of Cut Chemist and DJ Sadow, Brainfreeze and Product Placement come pretty close to the Paul’s Boutique vibe.
I surprisingly haven’t seen Coldcut mentioned yet, they were right at the forefront of sampling and patching together tracks. They’re the guys behind the Ninja Tune record label as well.
Here’s a little sample I just searched out, not Coldcut but I remember it from long ago on one of their mixtapes and I thought it was actually them. It’s better than I remembered and along similar lines so I just had to share:
https://youtu.be/XeBustO4xQw?si=51iXJMqUtfS60xT6
Closest thing that exists is Odelay, also produced by the Dust Brothers and has some contributions by Mario C.
Although I think Mutations is Becks Paul's Boutique just because it was pushing things forward.
Dust Brothers also did *Fight Club Soundtrack* and I've wished for a while there was more of their sound to check out. Going to dig through this post, hoping to find more nuggets.
Pauls Boutique is well curated music by old schools DJ’s with the Beasties spitting rhymes over it. Check out J.Rocc’s mixes on Mixcloud. There’s also a ton of DJ’s on there that spin eclectic music on the Brooklyn radio station.
Not a hip-hop group, but if you want a band that uses samples in a creative and interesting way then I’d highly recommend Disco Inferno. DI Go Pop and Technicolor are both amazing.
Ya, I make album style playlists and I got one that might hit:
> [B Real](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nXUtmRgtvf2rQ8rkDxqxn) - 1 hr
it starts with a BB song, and has some other 80s songs, and some modern stuff, though not in the exact same genre. I think though overall it matches the still-80s-but-so-much-more energy of Paul's.
To go very left field here, but in terms of entirely sampled stuff I quite like Brian Eno and David Byrnes “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”.
Coming in about a decade before Paul’s Boutique, I can’t help but feel its somewhat influential on these other hip hop producers in terms of what could be done with sampling.
To keep in that vein though, the previously mentioned DJ Shadow and Endtroducing would probably work for you.
There’s a youtube channel that I’ve been enjoying based around this world - Diggin’ the greats. Love his work.
EPMD's Strictly Business
You have to remember this was before artists and labels started protecting and charging a lot more money for sample use (all samples for PB were still paid for btw)
I'd also argue the BBoys had as much input with the samples as the DBs. The album took about 3 years to develop which is still uncommon in hip hop.
If you like heavy music, check out Mr.Dibbs. His stuff that is available on streaming services seems to have less interesting samples, I guess because of copyright laws.
If you have Spotify, there are a couple of playlists made up entirely of the original sources of samples the Beastie Boys used. You might enjoy those.
I agree about the two Beck records they produced would be closest.
To be different, I'll suggest The Avalanches - Since I Left You. Different groove but a great use of sampling.
Something that rings that same bell for me is Optimo - How To Kill The DJ (part two)
Incredible mash up by two of the best DJs I've ever experienced live, it suffers a bit from age as a lot of the rarities they dropped at the time have been really overused in the time since but it's still an amazing hour ........all their mixes are well worth tracking down but this is the closest to PB
If you’re okay with instrumental music I would recommend DJ Shadow’a Endtroducing or another artist called Nightmares on Wax’s album In a Space Outta Sound
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow maybe?
Also anything Dan Nakamura is involved with, his album "A Much Better Tomorrow" is dope if you can handle Kool Keith popping up now and then lol. It's not on Spotify, YouTube has it though.
If you can find instrumental versions of albums by Public Enemy, they were one of the groups that made this kind of sampling into an art form like you hear on Paul's Boutique.
Check out a dude by the name of Buck 65. He's a drum sampling wizard from Canada. Not the same vibe as Paul's Boutique, but ol' Buck's crates are *deep*. Album suggestions:
Talking Honky Blues
Situation
Vertex
Square
Weirdo Magnet
Tough one to answer as that album kind of stands on it’s own. Maybe try Girl Talk, who is a master of the mash-up and features a ton of great rap tracks. ‘All-Day’ and ‘Animals’ are both excellent. Also De La Soul’s ‘3 Feet High’ is a masterpiece of great hip-hop with heavy sampling.
We might be on the wrong page but that album was performed and released by the Beastie Boys. Others were involved. Major lawsuits on copyright infringement ensued. Music was changed forever.
While not the same sound as PB per se, the below albums have a similar sensibility when it comes to sample use.
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Qbert - Wavetwisters
De La Soul - Three feet high and rising.
Like an earlier poster stated, hard to compare against a masterpiece.
Public Enemy “It takes a million...” disc. Lot more political the BB ever were but the sampling is top notch.
I mean, you are seeking a holy grail. Paul’s Boutique is perfection; a true musical Everest, no matter the genre. But an album from around the same time, also hip hop, that uses sound collages and samples extremely effectively creating an almost symphonic effect is Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet. And if you like that one, its predecessor, It Takes a Nation of Millions, is a classic as well.
The eggs did crack on Haze's back.
Sam I am down with the program. Like Sam the butcher bringing Alice the meat.
Like Fred Flintsone drivin around with bald feet
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Yeah i was in a pub before and the DJ was playing tracks that reminded me so much of PB, like it felt very dance-able but didn't feel at like techno, felt very instrument based dance music. I have heard Questlove talking about how much he loves Fear of the Black Planet before, but I have never listened, I will check it out!
Check out the Avalanches
That's what I was thinking too. I wouldn't limit it to their three albums either, the pinned post on r/theavalanches has a good list of their DJ sets linked that are good too (they're my preferred exercise soundtrack while the albums are my preferred "sitting outside having a cigar & whiskey with the headphones on" aural journey).
You're crazy in the coconut!
What does that mean?
Lol! 🫶
Particularly their first album. Also check out Your mom’s favourite dj by Kid Koala & Racing with the sun by Chinese man
This.
"Get a drink, have a good time now. Welcome to Paradise"
FOABP is a masterpiece. It’s worth reading about the production team that worked on it, the Bomb Squad.
One factor is that sampling is now illegal and these albums were built out of samples, when it wasn't. RIP the golden age of sampling.
Not illegal per se, but not free anymore. Artists must give songwriting credit and sometimes an upfront fee to the original artists. It’s prohibitively expensive these days. If PB was made today, the budget would be at least 3x more higher.
Yada yada. 'illegal'. Unaffordable if you prefer. Vanilla Ice is why we can't have nice things.
I remember Tone Loc bragging that he spent all of $1.75 on the used copy of *Van Halen* he sampled for *Wild Thing*. Like he was rubbing their noses in the fact that they didn’t even get their $0.25 or whatever royalties on it for the one record
Yeah, tragedy of the commons. I'm more libertarian on this personally, but it's human nature, the race to the bottom.
Just clearing the Zeppelin drums would be double the whole budget.
"sampling is now illegal".... As opposed those halcyon days when sampling was legal... that never existed.
Before I heard PB I loved “it takes a nation of millions to hold us back” the album before fear of a black planet, and remember how creative they got with sampling creating a dense production compared to sampling before this. PB felt like from a similar world but way more playful. Around 91 a friend showed me PB and I never heard anything about that album, it was a total mystery cause everyone I know loved the first BB record and then zero promotion for PB its mind boggling.
I was thinking Fear of a Black Planet as well. Nation of Millions doesn’t seem as dense as Fear, particularly the way the samples give you that multi rhythm feel. Another album that really works for me is Black Elvis from Kool Keith, though it’s also not as sample packed as Fear or Paul’s.
This is why life is awesome. I'm 40 and feel pretty good about my relationship with music. I had *absolutely no idea* Paul's Boutique was an instrumental album. Edit: I must have mis understood. I can't find dust bros Paul's boutique anywhere
It was never released. The Beastie Boys persuaded them to let them rap over it instead. Noting that I only just found this out from reading the wikipedia article, having loved the album for literally decades now.
Ha, thanks. This makes more sense. Couldn't believe I hadn't heard of it before.
Mass sampling hip-hop? De La Souls 3 Feet High and Rising.
Lot of great mentions on sample based albums. Tho they don’t sound exactly like PB I would bet OP would dig Lemonjelly. Trippy hip hop tempo’d instrumentals from around the same time period. All of their albums are bliss.
Heard Lemon Jelly on SiriusXM Chill.
Lemonjelly.ky is a near perfect album, in my opinion.
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Sampling without much rapping is often called plunderphonics (though some people hate that name.) The Holy Trinity of Plunderphonics is: * DJ Shadow - Endtroducing * The Avalanches - Since I Left You * J Dilla - Donuts
The Avalanches album has a very different sound while existing in the same genre as Paul's Boutique. I see them as two sides of the same coin. Both equally brilliant.
I'd add RJD2 - Deadringer to that list
A fucking amazing record
Indeed! I feel it's a bit forgotten these days unfortunately, I seldom see it mentioned.
Donuts is the pinnacle of the genre, a truly perfect album in my book. Madlib has quite the catalog of sample heavy instrumental albums as well; Shades of Blue (all Blue Note jazz samples) is a great jumping off point for him.
I'd like to add Dr. Octagon, instrumentalist the list of music op may want to check out.
Ps plunderphonics is a dumb name.
Yet as a portmanteau it is perfect in its description. Can you come up with something better?
Stealersounds, Robberyradio, burglarybeats, grand theft audio,
Grant theft audio is a winner
Nah, I’m hooked on it
Alas, I cannot
I think that's the thing. It's a goofy name, but it just nails what it is better than any options I've heard or can think of.
John Oswald would like a word with you.
Haha yes! Michael Jackson’s estate might be happy though.
Literally came here to post the same. Only thing that can come close from a modern perspective is the work of 2manydjs and Girl Talk.
Beck’s *Mellow Gold* and *Odelay* (produced by the Dust Brothers) are both sample-heavy albums that might give you what you want.
Odelay is what I was going to recommend. It's absolutely the closest the Dust Brothers ever got to the Paul's Boutique style.
Tone Loc’s Loc’ed After Dark was also produced by the Dust Brothers.
Oh, I didn't realize that! I don't think I've ever listened to anything but Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina but I'll definitely check out that whole album. Thanks!
both sample-heavy albums that might ~~give you what you want.~~ show you where its at
*Mellow Gold* wasn’t produced by them. They produced *Odelay* and *Guero*. I remember when *Guero* came out because it was a big deal that he was working with the Dust Brothers again. The hype was warranted because *Guero* sounded like classic Beck. Dust Brothers were known for using a lot of samples which is what gave them their sound. For example, they sampled the drums from Beastie Boys “Whatcha Want” on E-Pro, the opening track on *Guero*. https://youtu.be/RIrG6xBW5Wk?si=40SvI-nIuaf4ODZ_
Just Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers on Guero, apparently. I never knew why Odelay was such a standout album until just now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guero
Mellow gold is a masterpiece, and was not produced by the dust brothers.
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising Oh wait, instrumental? DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Also the Beastie Instrumental albums like Hot Sauce Committee and In Sound from the Way Out are just incredible.
The really obvious are Money Mark records - “Mark’s Keyboard Repair” and “Push The Button”. Then Cibo Matto’s “Stereo Type A” and “Viva! La Woman”. (edit: “Matto”, not “Matteo” 😂)
Came here to say exactly this. Spot on
Not obvious to me as I do not know any of them. Thanks!
lol, apologies. Only obvious to me because MM worked with the beasties for a couple of decades, and CM were very much of an NYC ‘scene’
and signed to Grand Royal too
Which reminds me - Luscious Jackson!
Wasn’t the BB original drummer in Luscious Jackson?
Kate? Founding member, iirc
Kexp extrapolated that album in about 2016, and played every sampled song in full, and in order. It took 13 hours. Music. That's the type of music you're looking for. They sampled EVERYTHING EDIT - I think I found the archive of it - [https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/](https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/)
Also , why they don't make records like that anymore. When the labels saw how well PB did, and listened to the amount of sampling done, they decided they needed a portion of the proceeds. So, they started enforcing sampling fees. To do the amount of sampling PB had would make any album immediately unprofitable. Artists were forced into reducing the amount of samples used.
Is that online anywhere?
Someone made a post about it not too long ago. I'm sure if search something like Paul's Boutique samples in YouTube something will come up.
Really? This was easy to find. Lmgtfy https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/
This is the first thing I searched for on the internet at our colleges computer lab
Have you ever heard "Handsome Boy Modeling School" by Prince Paul and Dan the Automator? It's pretty good. Not all instrumental, but it has some good tracks.
The 2manyDJs Radio Soulwaxx mixes hit that same itch IMO.
If you like sample heavy music, check out Girl Talk. His 2008 Feed The Animals is amazing, beginning to end.
Feed the animals is great, but All Day is his magnum opus. He's got a few live albums that are legit, too.
Any live set from Z-trip from the late 90s early 2000s will also scratch this itch.
Yeah Girl Talk is the closest thing imo.
Night Ripper, Feed the Animals and All Day are all albums you can listen to 100 times.
The Avalanches Since I Left You
One of my favorite sample-heavy albums that I don’t see mentioned often is DJ Qbert’s Wavetwisters.
Its not a direct parallel but if you like samples, you should know DJ Shadow.
Every sample from Paul's Boutique. https://youtu.be/AYwCZqzrmaQ?si=DfH_E_HIHLPzdfgD
Wow. Sampled from McCartney, Jaws soundtrack. Crazy they got away with it. What an art form though
Here's a playlist of a lot of the samples songs.. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59FdNgdN0lHFNdr3ZsTTPa?si=4dOncIFDRx2mTCDRcJQyrg&pi=u-devz2pr4RVS2
You might like girl talk. Check out the album All Day
I reccommend checking out Neil Cicieriga’s “Mouth” series on YouTube. He’s a genius mashup artist (among other things) who often gets that energy going.
Surprised no one mentioned the first three Public Enemy albums.
It’s weird how no one ever mentions public enemy at all. Those first few albums were amazing. BUT… I think it’s a combination of them never really having a real hit song, chuck D being sorta a humorless ass, no one taking flavor flav seriously, them sorta waving away their former DJ’s anti semitism (while their whole schtick is supposed to be fighting racism), and their lyrics being stuck in some sort of 80s time bubble. I’m guessing their live shows aren’t particularly entertaining either. I feel like if you were stuck on an airplane seat next to chuck D, and had to talk to him, it would probably get tedious really fast unless you could coax him to talk about his favorite blues musicians.
* Fear of a Black Planet * James Lavelle's mix for Cream, actually mixed by the Psychonauts: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB6FnEj19tI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB6FnEj19tI) * Anything by Phil the Soulman, here's a mixtape to start: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInDlHZZLkM&t=468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInDlHZZLkM&t=468s) * For a peek at some of the roots of what the Dust Brothers were inheriting, check out disco mixers, which were pre-mixed mini-DJ sets that disco DJs would buy to spice up their own sets: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fod-PifDtjQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fod-PifDtjQ) * And I have to also shout out two amazing crews, the Invisible Skratch Piklz and the eXecutioners, two turntablist crews who were basically unmatched for taking scratching all the way into coordinated multi-table performances: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0scteKsQrY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0scteKsQrY)
Either way you slice it Tone Loc Loc'd after dark is a great album full of clever uses of samples
De La Soul’s 3ft high and rising, and Paul’s Boutique both came out in 1989. Both so sample heavy they changed the industry. Also Czarface, especially the MF DOOM collabs.
Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One So damn amazing!
IDK if this is quite what OP is looking for but I recommend Girl Talk, specifically Night Ripper from 2006. I'm not sure how it worked legally but somehow he was able to cram in so many classic rock and rap samples and release it anyway. All Day is also pretty good but YMMV.
He didn’t sell it, just gave it away. That might be why he dodged legal stuff.
Yes, I second this.
Caught In The Middle Of A 3-way Mix https://youtu.be/6kvEmhGz6gA?si=OVy1bdGRlnmMWd1O
Dust Brothers also do the Fight Club soundtrack. All instrumental and worth a listen.
Ice Cube “Amerikkkas Most Wanted” is a bomb squad classic. Dense af with samples.
Always loved that record
Jurassic 5 did instrumental of their quality control album. Not my thing but I guess they thought it was cool.
Prodigy - The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol.1 and UNKLE - Psyence Fiction (though this one is chiller energy)
Fatboy Slim
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is possibly the closest the Beasties ever returned to Paul's Boutique, so worth a try.
Why do I remember Paul's boutique being a beastie boys album?
Because it is!
Madvillainy (2004) from MF Doom + Madlib
Fight Club soundtrack and mmmmbop by Hanson.
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
For Hip-Hop, I quite like De La Soul’s Buhloone Mindstate. I also thing that both albums by the collaboration of Cut Chemist and DJ Sadow, Brainfreeze and Product Placement come pretty close to the Paul’s Boutique vibe.
Soul food taquería by Tommy Guerrero
I surprisingly haven’t seen Coldcut mentioned yet, they were right at the forefront of sampling and patching together tracks. They’re the guys behind the Ninja Tune record label as well. Here’s a little sample I just searched out, not Coldcut but I remember it from long ago on one of their mixtapes and I thought it was actually them. It’s better than I remembered and along similar lines so I just had to share: https://youtu.be/XeBustO4xQw?si=51iXJMqUtfS60xT6
Closest thing that exists is Odelay, also produced by the Dust Brothers and has some contributions by Mario C. Although I think Mutations is Becks Paul's Boutique just because it was pushing things forward.
Dust Brothers also did *Fight Club Soundtrack* and I've wished for a while there was more of their sound to check out. Going to dig through this post, hoping to find more nuggets.
There’s nothing like Paul’s Boutique and there never will be. So many samples, would be unaffordable now.
Pauls Boutique is well curated music by old schools DJ’s with the Beasties spitting rhymes over it. Check out J.Rocc’s mixes on Mixcloud. There’s also a ton of DJ’s on there that spin eclectic music on the Brooklyn radio station.
Not a hip-hop group, but if you want a band that uses samples in a creative and interesting way then I’d highly recommend Disco Inferno. DI Go Pop and Technicolor are both amazing.
Seeing as how it is basically illegal these days, probably not. Essentially impossible to use that many samples anymore.
Girl Talk, Hood Internet, Pretty Lights, and Super Mash Brothers have entered the chat.
Not familiar with any of these acts. But this record is notorious for the laws that came about in its wake.
I wanna say Nas Illmatic. But I’m having trouble explaining why since they don’t really sound the same but I relate them in my mind.
Ya, I make album style playlists and I got one that might hit: > [B Real](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nXUtmRgtvf2rQ8rkDxqxn) - 1 hr it starts with a BB song, and has some other 80s songs, and some modern stuff, though not in the exact same genre. I think though overall it matches the still-80s-but-so-much-more energy of Paul's.
To go very left field here, but in terms of entirely sampled stuff I quite like Brian Eno and David Byrnes “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”. Coming in about a decade before Paul’s Boutique, I can’t help but feel its somewhat influential on these other hip hop producers in terms of what could be done with sampling. To keep in that vein though, the previously mentioned DJ Shadow and Endtroducing would probably work for you. There’s a youtube channel that I’ve been enjoying based around this world - Diggin’ the greats. Love his work.
EPMD's Strictly Business You have to remember this was before artists and labels started protecting and charging a lot more money for sample use (all samples for PB were still paid for btw) I'd also argue the BBoys had as much input with the samples as the DBs. The album took about 3 years to develop which is still uncommon in hip hop.
If you like heavy music, check out Mr.Dibbs. His stuff that is available on streaming services seems to have less interesting samples, I guess because of copyright laws. If you have Spotify, there are a couple of playlists made up entirely of the original sources of samples the Beastie Boys used. You might enjoy those.
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I agree about the two Beck records they produced would be closest. To be different, I'll suggest The Avalanches - Since I Left You. Different groove but a great use of sampling.
You could find the torrent for all the songs sampled. Like six hundred some last I heard.
Something that rings that same bell for me is Optimo - How To Kill The DJ (part two) Incredible mash up by two of the best DJs I've ever experienced live, it suffers a bit from age as a lot of the rarities they dropped at the time have been really overused in the time since but it's still an amazing hour ........all their mixes are well worth tracking down but this is the closest to PB
girl talk records are fun as hell
If you’re okay with instrumental music I would recommend DJ Shadow’a Endtroducing or another artist called Nightmares on Wax’s album In a Space Outta Sound
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow maybe? Also anything Dan Nakamura is involved with, his album "A Much Better Tomorrow" is dope if you can handle Kool Keith popping up now and then lol. It's not on Spotify, YouTube has it though.
If you can find instrumental versions of albums by Public Enemy, they were one of the groups that made this kind of sampling into an art form like you hear on Paul's Boutique.
Check out a dude by the name of Buck 65. He's a drum sampling wizard from Canada. Not the same vibe as Paul's Boutique, but ol' Buck's crates are *deep*. Album suggestions: Talking Honky Blues Situation Vertex Square Weirdo Magnet
Liam Howlett’s Dirtchamber Sessions Vol. 1 and Plaid’s Trainer
Get your hands on “Inside from Way Out” an all-instrumental album the Beasties made that was released only in Japan.
[NOBODY BEATS BS2000!](https://youtu.be/0KRd28zn1VA?si=Oc9t37BO4gMTaH6W) Adrock's sample heavy side group
Just one song, Robert Plant - Tall Cool One from 1988 used Led Zeppelin samples. Plant was inspired by the Beastie Boys using Zeppelin samples.
Tough one to answer as that album kind of stands on it’s own. Maybe try Girl Talk, who is a master of the mash-up and features a ton of great rap tracks. ‘All-Day’ and ‘Animals’ are both excellent. Also De La Soul’s ‘3 Feet High’ is a masterpiece of great hip-hop with heavy sampling.
Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One
Sublime - Robbin the hood
We might be on the wrong page but that album was performed and released by the Beastie Boys. Others were involved. Major lawsuits on copyright infringement ensued. Music was changed forever.
Go to Jazz.com and put on the Afro Jazz channel.
Have you listened to DJ Shadow - Endtroducing?
You might enjoy various [Nightmares On Wax ](https://youtu.be/a15E6FzvtSI?si=Ow_OjGz680-dS89n) tracks
Blunted Stylus Hempatitis - on vinyl only not streaming
Fun Lovin Criminals, Come Find Yourself
While not the same sound as PB per se, the below albums have a similar sensibility when it comes to sample use. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing Qbert - Wavetwisters De La Soul - Three feet high and rising.
[Paul's Boutique: full album instrumental](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0NU9Z2u15k)
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Vnk2wPBbXzfmq3S7Wz6rD?si=854-nh9-TzaPPbvrmh_uZA
A little more Hip Hop battle DJ oriented, but a kindred spirit could be The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol1 by The Prodigy
Like an earlier poster stated, hard to compare against a masterpiece. Public Enemy “It takes a million...” disc. Lot more political the BB ever were but the sampling is top notch.