Synthetic Substitution

"Synthetic Substitution" is a 1973 song by Melvin Bliss. The song begins with a 2-bar drum break performed by Bernard Purdie. Originally starting life as a throwaway B-side, with "Reward" as the A-Side, the song failed to chart anywhere on its initial release because of the collapse of Opal Productions, the parent company of Sunburst Records. However, after the song was sampled by Ultramagnetic MCs in their track Ego Trippin, many other artists followed suit, and eventually the song became one of the most sampled songs of all time.