They’ve gotten rave reviews in NME, Times Metro, Melody Maker, iD, P.U.R.E. The Beatles, James Brown and the Winstons were not ahead of their time because they made beats that sounded like 90s music- the 90s artists were throwing back to those eras, mostly to obscurities from the time.They’ve been written about all over England. It sounds like an 80s/90s hip hop beat which were almost universally sampled 60s and 70s records. It's definitely not contemporary, like this year or this century even, eg., it lacks the ticking hi hats of a trap beat. The Chemical Brothers - 11 - The Private Psychedelic Reel » Just listen to these songs to hear the influence of 'Tomorrow Never Knows': I also think that Brian Eno's idea of the studio-as-instrument comes from this kind of recording.'' He may be right, considering that Eno loved the song, and covered it in the 70's: Its tape collage alone makes it one of the first tracks to use sampling really successfully. The Chemical Brothers and other big beat acts were definitely strongly influenced by the song, with the Chemical Brothers actually calling it 'their musical manifesto'.Īs DJ Spooky said about the song: 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is one of those songs that's in the DNA of so much going on these days that it's hard to know where to start. There can be no denying the huge influence that 'Tomorrow Never Knows' had on certain subsections of electronic music. It depends very much on what you mean by 'electronic music', because it is a very catch-all term. That said, I agree that the song does feel strangely prophetic and certainly suggests the Chemical Brothers / Prodigy style of Big Beat electronica even if the drums are not looped. Another reason was probably fear of litigation, even before there was really settled law about sampling it was probably considered pretty risky to go there (the Beasties album was on Capitol). It was considered a little gauche among some when the Beastie Boys came out with Paul's Boutique which sampled the hooks of well known records (including, yes, an entire song of Beatles samples). One, hip hop beatmaking prides itself on obscurity and crate digging, and the Beatles are about the least 'dug' thing you could sample.

Sampling the Beatles, even an awesome beat like TMW was sort of no-go for a few reasons. The Beatles, James Brown and the Winstons were not ahead of their time because they made beats that sounded like 90s music- the 90s artists were throwing back to those eras, mostly to obscurities from the time.

Beatles song tomorrow never knows