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Where do Japanese records get sampled?

A sources-first database of which songs sampled Japanese records — city pop & wamono in hip-hop and vaporwave.

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Source (Japanese song)

Overture (Space Warrior Baldios)

Kentaro Haneda · 1981 · JP

♪ No official audio embedded yet

SAMPLE

Sampling song

Angels

Ghostface Killah · 2006 · US

♪ No official audio embedded yet

Ghostface Killah's "Angels" (from Fishscale, 2006, prod. MF DOOM) is reported to sample Kentaro Haneda's score for the anime Space Warrior Baldios (1980-81).

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Reported / secondary

Source (Japanese song)

Fragile

Tatsuro Yamashita · 1998 · JP

♪ No official audio embedded yet

SAMPLE

Sampling song

GONE, GONE / THANK YOU

Tyler, the Creator · 2019 · US

♪ No official audio embedded yet

Tyler, the Creator's "GONE, GONE / THANK YOU" (from Igor, 2019) samples Tatsuro Yamashita's "Fragile" (from the album Cozy, 1998).

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Confirmed by artist/official

Source (Japanese song)

Midnight Pretenders

Tomoko Aran · 1983 · JP

◷ At 0:00

SAMPLE

Sampling song

Out of Time

The Weeknd · 2022 · CA

◷ At 0:07

The Weeknd's "Out of Time" prominently samples Tomoko Aran's 1983 track "Midnight Pretenders". Aran and Tetsurō Oda are listed in the songwriting credits; the sample is officially cleared.

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