Cole Cuchna

Finally, another fragment is pulled from Steppenwolf's Everybody's Next One.

And now the pitch-matched chop.

Together, all three of these chops sound like this.

This is followed by a sample from another Alan Parsons song off the same project, Old and Wise.

Now here's the pitch chop.

Put this together with the other three and we get this.

Let's hear this with the drums first on its own, then join with the samples we've uncovered so far.

All right, so we just need three more samples to fill out this main loop, beginning with Dave Mason's 1974 rendition of All Along the Watchtower.

Now the pitch-down chop.

This is combined with a sample from Poco's 1974 song, Faith in the Families.

And the pitch-down slice.

Together the two samples sound like this.

This is joined with one remaining but very crucial sample, pulled from Logan and Messina's 1971 track, House at Pooh Corner.

Now the pitched up chop.

We'll add this to the previous two samples and we get this.

Now let's hear it with drums, then slot it in with the rest of our recreation.

And with that, we've completed a basic recreation of face-to-face's main loop.

I hope this somewhat tedious breakdown gave you a sense of just how intricate and skillful this kind of micro-sampling truly is.

At the same time, I must acknowledge that the breakdown we just did is in many ways incredibly misleading.

Because my reconstruction stands on the shoulders of a collective, decades-long effort by fans who painstakingly uncovered these sample fragments piece by piece.