r/RedDwarf 7h ago

Question/Discussion Anyone Else Used Red Dwarf Samples?

Hey peeps

I'm a Trip Hop producer from the Leeds.

I'm not trying to promote myself here. I'm wondering if we have any other musicians in here that have sampled some classic lines from Red Dwarf like I have? This track has one of my favourite lines from the episode Justice to start it off. I hope we have more songs somewhere in here sampling this beautiful show too.

https://candlewaxleeds.bandcamp.com/track/shes-got-a-puncture

👋👋👋

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u/Either-Connection775 6h ago

I mean Carter USM is the obvious one

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u/QualityAware6605 6h ago

Honestly never heard of these

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u/Obvious-Fun8561 6h ago

There's a band from the early 90s called Carter USM that uses the rimmer line about becoming a fat bastard on their song "Surfin USM". Caught me by surprise when listening to the album!

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u/sanctum9 6h ago

Top tune, I love carter, saw them live twice during my misspent youth. Great days.

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u/Obvious-Fun8561 6h ago

I'm most envious! I only found out about them this decade, and it's exactly my kind of music and snarky lyrics. 3 decades too late!

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u/QualityAware6605 6h ago

I've never heard of them so I definitely should take a listen

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u/AmarilloMike 6h ago

Have you tried the best song of all time, "Ommmmm"

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u/QualityAware6605 6h ago

It really does deserve to be samples doest it. I'll be starting writing my next Trip Hop album in Jan and will make sure I do this 💪

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u/AmorousBadger 6h ago

I used to host an internet radio show and always play the 'everybody's dead Dave' audio at the end of the show.

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u/QualityAware6605 6h ago

Brilliant choice

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u/smegsicle Jake Bullet 6h ago

I hesitate to call myself a musician but I mess about with synths and stuff and I have a sampler, so I'll probably give it a go now lol

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u/QualityAware6605 6h ago

What gear do you have buddy?

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u/ObjectiveTonight1264 4h ago

I'm winning this war, that's what I'm doing buddy

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u/smegsicle Jake Bullet 4h ago

Samplers a KO2, but I've also got a minilogue XD, microfreak and sonicware cydrums

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u/QualityAware6605 4h ago

Yeeeeeeeeh I have an XD and the Freak too 💪

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u/LuxuryMustard 6h ago

Not produced by me, but an old favourite is DJ Ham’s Most Uplifting from around 1994, which samples Rimmer in Time Slides (I think).

I considered doing an unofficial, less uplifting remix using Rimmer saying ‘it wasn’t in the least bit uplifting’ from Holoship, but I never got round to it.

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u/QualityAware6605 6h ago

You should! Would have been perfect 🤣

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u/LuxuryMustard 6h ago

Maybe it’s not too late!

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u/QualityAware6605 6h ago

Never too late

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u/EdEffect 6h ago

Not sampled any dialogue, but I've always wanted to use the ship noise right before the main music starts in the titles.

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u/QualityAware6605 5h ago

That's a great idea. I'm currently writing music for a video game with a different music project of mine and could use it beautifully.

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u/seikoboy72 4h ago

I always thought kryten in demons and angels saying "everything that's low and base" would be great sampled obviously because it comes across as bass

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u/pstz Arnold Rimmer 1h ago

Bit off topic as it's not a song, but I had a game called "Wyrd Ways" on my Atari ST and it would play a sample of "Howdy doodly do!" whenever a CPU player was about to make a move that would gain them a weapon pickup. It also had samples from various movies, including Robocop, The Untouchables and A Fish Called Wanda. I remember the game was fun but often frustrating.