10 Hits You Didn't Realise Sampled Other Songs
4. Where's Your Head At - Basement Jaxx
Released as the third single from the band's second album - 2001s Rooty - Where's Your Head At was British electronic duo Basement Jaxx's biggest hit, reaching number nine in their native UK. It was their only single to chart on the US Billboard rankings. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, who chose the name Basement Jaxx to describe the regular club night that they hosted in Brixton, London, rose from underground names to commercial success during the late '90s.
The deep synth hooks which appear throughout Where's Your Head At are taken from not one, but two songs recorded by pioneering electronic artist, Gary Numan. Numan (born Gary Webb). Numan first found fame as frontman of Tubeway Army, who scored one of the first big electronica hits with 1979s Are Friends Electric? As a solo act, he achieved considerable success, and remains one of the most influential acts of that era.
For Where's Your Head At, Basement Jaxx sampled two Numan numbers, M.E., which featured on the artist's debut solo album, 1979's The Pleasure Principle, and This Wreckage, taken from the singer's 1980 set, Telekon.