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You can practically just press play on the first two videos.
The song samples the bass line from Meat Beat Manifesto‘s “Radio Babylon” with Lisa Gerrard‘s vocal from “Dawn of the Iconoclast” by Dead Can Dance. The Future Sound of London‘s Cobain described the sampling choices stating that the “Radio Babylon” bass line was “one of the greatest within the culture” while the bass line in “Papua New Guinea” was “kind of a staccato sampled version.” The Dead Can Dance sample came from a mixtape sent to a band members’ girlfriends collection which she received from a man she had been seeing briefly. Cobain stated that he had “always loved Dead Can Dance but I didn’t have that particular album, so I sampled it from the cassette.” – Gary Walker et al
