# Top 5 Songs... with samples.
- Source: The Mancunion (https://staging.mancunion.com/music/top-5-songs-with-samples)
- By: Lowell Clarke
- Published: 2013-10-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Section: Music
- Topics: Songs, Top 5, DJ Shadow, Kanye West, Sampling, lowell clarke, Four Tet, puff daddy, washed out
**Lowell Clarke selects his top 5 sampling tracks.**

**1. Kanye West – ‘Power’**

He started his career producing beats for Jay-Z and it’s still his strongest point. Who’d ever think to put classics ‘21st Schizoid Man’ and ‘Afromerica’ together?

**2. Washed Out – ‘Feel It All Around’**

Ernest Greene singing over slowed down 80s songs helped kick start the chillwave genre and made some of the chillest songs imaginable in the process.

**3. Puff Daddy – ‘Come With Me’**

The butchering of Led Zep’s ‘Kashmir’ might make your Dad cry, but there’s no denying the epic size and intensity of this beat.

**4. Four Tet – ‘Kool FM’**

From the newly-released Beautiful Rewind, this is a stop-start jungle beat affair. A tribute to pirate radio, complete with compressed MC “HEY HEY HEY” samples.

**5. DJ Shadow – ‘Midnight In A Perfect World’**

For any of you who still doubt that sampling is an art form, look no further. This track is sublimely beautiful. Just give it a listen.