#and the drumline from Moby's “South Side” and Pop Will Eat Itself's “Home” are the same just different speeds

[sablegear0]

Having broad taste in music leads one to find unique sound samples/progressions/drumbeats and to instantly recognize them when they're used elsewhere.

When liking video game music produces this phenomenon it's especially weird.

We were picking music for this year's choreography in my dance class and two of the options had sounds or progressions I immediately recognized.

"Saptak" by Solace has a drum sample in it that's exactly the drumline of "Hard Fought" from HL2 (both links timestamped). I think they even kept and looped the backing drone from "Hard Fought" as well (If we assume it was a direct inspiration the timing lines up, too! HL2 came out 4 years before "Saptak" was released if the date on that video is correct. Granted this may be a fairly generic D&B beat but the sound libraries are identical.)

The other track I don't have a link for yet (will edit/RB when I get one) but it absolutely has the "meow" soundbyte from "Zephyr" on the Spyro 2 soundtrack, which just about cracked me up the first time I heard it because I had never heard, nor expected to hear, that sample elsewhere. And it's not just in the background it's a major sample in the bridge!