Caribou – “Volume”

In 1987, members of the arty, spacey British bands AR Kane and Colourbox formed MARRS — or, if you feel like using copy-paste, M|A|R|R|S — a side project that only ever released one single. That one single turned out to be a big one. “Pump Up The Volume,” a global smash that reached #1 in the UK and #13 in the US, is almost entirely comprised of samples, and it became hugely influential in the mass embrace of house music and the cut-and-paste hip-hop aesthetic. Now, Caribou has turned...

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