Discography
Gang Of Four - VARIOUS ARTISTS WHO HAVE SAMPLED GANG OF FOUR
“The Ground Below” by Run The Jewels on the album RTJ4 (2020) features a sample of “Ether.”
About a minute into the track El-P makes reference to that in his opening sentence, “Born from the ether I just appeared out a cloud a reefer.”
“Futura Free” by Frank Ocean on the album Blonde (2016) features a sample of “Love Like Anthrax” .
Andy discussed the Frank Ocean sample in an interview with Andrew Sacher for Brooklyn Vegan, published September 6th 2016.
“BV: Gang of Four was in the news again recently thanks to a small part you had in the new Frank Ocean album. Did you know that was coming?
Andy Gill: ‘Frank Ocean’s management got in touch with me in November of last year saying that Frank was building a song which featured a loop from “Anthrax” and could he have permission to use it. My first thought was that this is fairly unusual for people to be that up front and honest. Most bands just take Gang of Four ideas and dress them up a little and call them their own!
‘His manager, Wendi, played Frank’s track down the phone to me as we were driving somewhere on the west coast on our tour bus which was a little bit surreal as I couldn’t properly hear it. But I think Frank Ocean is great and I was aware that he was a big fan of Gang of Four.’
Did you realize what a big deal it was going to be?
‘Because it’s Frank Ocean it was obviously going to be a big deal.'”
Discography
Gang Of Four - VARIOUS ARTISTS WHO HAVE SAMPLED GANG OF FOUR
“The Ground Below” by Run The Jewels on the album RTJ4 (2020) features a sample of “Ether.”
About a minute into the track El-P makes reference to that in his opening sentence, “Born from the ether I just appeared out a cloud a reefer.”
“Futura Free” by Frank Ocean on the album Blonde (2016) features a sample of “Love Like Anthrax” .
Andy discussed the Frank Ocean sample in an interview with Andrew Sacher for Brooklyn Vegan, published September 6th 2016.
“BV: Gang of Four was in the news again recently thanks to a small part you had in the new Frank Ocean album. Did you know that was coming?
Andy Gill: ‘Frank Ocean’s management got in touch with me in November of last year saying that Frank was building a song which featured a loop from “Anthrax” and could he have permission to use it. My first thought was that this is fairly unusual for people to be that up front and honest. Most bands just take Gang of Four ideas and dress them up a little and call them their own!
‘His manager, Wendi, played Frank’s track down the phone to me as we were driving somewhere on the west coast on our tour bus which was a little bit surreal as I couldn’t properly hear it. But I think Frank Ocean is great and I was aware that he was a big fan of Gang of Four.’
Did you realize what a big deal it was going to be?
‘Because it’s Frank Ocean it was obviously going to be a big deal.'”