One of the best tracks from the late MF DOOM. King Geedorah is one of the many aliases from the Supervillian, here taking a kaiju theme for the album. Its never been my favorite MF DOOM project, but it does have some of his most interesting beats and in turn, some of his most interesting samples!
The first sample you hear right off the bat comes from Invasion Of Astro-Monsters, the 6th movie in the Godzilla series released in 1965. Not what Id call a good Godzilla film but really what Godzilla movie is good? All of them are goofy fun and its why I love them all. Anyway, the sample comes from the Controller of Planet X, the main villian of the movie, before he asks the astronauts for help to defeat King Geedorah. Fairly Simple Sample.
However, the most interesting sample is the one that makes the track so special. The violins in this song are so beautiful and really make it feel like a giant Kaiju is about to come in and wreck some poor japanese town. The weird thing is that nobody actually knows where the sample comes from.
From what I can gather, people initally had a few ideas on what it was. Perhaps it was this Wade Marcus joint from 1971.
Or maybe it came from Goldeneyen 007's soundtrack.
One interesting lead I found was in the comments of a video about Goldeneye maybe being the source. Claimed that he found the sample, and that it was from the Prevue Guide. I had to google this. Apparently it was a sort of channel that just showed upcoming shows and displayed ads. Had some pretty sweet music. I dont feel like going through all of the songs right now but if I do and find the sample, I'll update the bottom of this page with it and with a note.
According to the super villian himself during an interview, the violins originate from a 70s porn that feature a man in cowboy boots and 2 lovely ladies. And that is all. The exact name of said porno movie was never mentioned. Wont lie I was considering going through the Internet Adult Film Database, hoping they would have something to seperate by decade but then I thought about it and I really dont feel like sorting through an entire decade of 50 year old porn just for a sample.
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