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Swedish Dj/producer Eric Prydz follows up his massive No.1 hit 'Call On Me' with the stomping 'Proper Education'... The track features a sample of Pink Floyd's legendary 1979 chart-topper 'Another Brick In The Wall part II' - it is the first time Pink Floyd have ever cleared a sample of their work.To be honest, most people probably don't need me to describe this track. If you remember 'Call On Me' (the track that repeated the chorus of Steve Winwood's 'Valerie' ad nauseam) and you know what 'Another Brick In the Wall' sounds like, you could probably guess for yourself that this is effectively four minutes of "We don't need no education" over and over again with that sort of washing-machine phasing effect common to dance tracks of the 1990s and 2000s. That's not a concept that appeals much to me, I must say (not least because I'm not a fan of the Floyd track to start with), but enough people were up for it that this was almost a second Number One for each act in the quiet days of January 2007.
The children who sing on the original were famously never paid any royalties on the millions of record sales, although since 1996 they have been entitled to payments in respect of radio play in the UK. Whether they got paid for this I don't know.
Eric Prydz also appears on: Now 59, 71
Available on: Uncovered
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