About Me

What's up!

My name is F-O, I live in Québec, Canada.

I mainly listen to underground hip-hop music, but I also like metal, alternative rock, punk, movie scores, video games music, nearly everything, actually. Beside music, I like cinema, tennis and hockey. I also love producing beats, I might even make an album someday.

I'm currently trying to submit all the significant cover songs of 2011 (added 57 yet).

~Some of my favorite submissions~

Hip-Hop:

• Nas's Gangsta Tears sample of Jose Luis Rodriguez's Quisiera Saber Por Que
• La Coka Nostra feat. Vinnie Paz's Habitat of the Gas Mask sample of Giuseppe Verdi's Dies Irae
• La Coka Nostra feat. B-Real's I'm an American sample of Four Tops's The Good Lord Knows
• Randam Luck feat. Ill Bill's Verbal Holocaust (Remix) sample of Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi's Death Note
• OuterSpace's Living the Life sample of Antonio Machi's Dos Gardenias
• Army of the Pharaohs's Time to Rock sample of Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in a Minor
• Fat Joe feat. Remy Ma's Definition of a Don sample of Roland Romanelli's Memoires
• King Syze's The Best sample of Yann Tiersen's Dejà Loin
• King Syze's Cement Work sample of Spanky & Our Gang's Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
• Killah Priest and Chief Kamachi's Closest sample of Takanashi Yasuharu's Kodoku (Loneliness)
• Randam Luck's Raw (Remix) sample of Nobuo Uematsu's Liberi Fatali
• Ill Bill and Vinnie Paz's King Diamond sample of Jean Vallée and Yvon Ouazana's Cauchemar en Lombardie
• Diabolic feat. Ill Bill's Order & Chaos sample of Hans Zimmer's Tia Dalma
• Marco Polo and Ruste Juxx's Nobody sample of Les Splendid's L'Agami

Soundtracks:

• Hans Zimmer's The Kraken sample of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
• Hans Zimmer's Parlay sample of Ennio Morricone's Man With a Harmonica
• John Williams's Main Title (Theme From Jaws) sample of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World", 4th Movement (Allegro Con Fuoco)

 Videogames:

• Mod Dan A and Mod Bond's Scape Theme sample of Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi and Yukie Morimoto's Prelude
• Koji Kondo's Ocarina "Song of Storms" sample of Koji Kondo's Castle & Fortress

"Today it is [harder to clear songs], because people want so much money for sampling their music. But it is what it is, it's a business. There are a lot of artists out there who don't mind you sampling their music, like Elton John, and then you got people out there who don't want hip-hop producers sampling their music. And then you got people who just want money for it. They take sixty or seventy-five percent of the song, and then you won't really make any money off the record. But it sounds great, so I'm gonna keep doing it regardless. Not everybody's an a-hole." -Pete Rock

"A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall."  -Jaron Lanier

"Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and de-contextualizing it." -DJ Shadow

"Sampling artistry is a very misunderstood form of music. A lot of people think sampling is thievery but it can take more time to find the right sample than to make up a riff." -Prince Be Softly

"Plagiarism is when you're trying to mimic and call it your own, and sampling is when you're trying to take the actual thing and turn it into something else. You're not calling it your own, you're saying it's a sample, and that's exactly what it is. It's made from other people's music, and this is what I've done with it." -Amon Tobin