Ghost Hardware: Games Sampled by Burial

British electronic/dubstep musician Burial is known for drawing from a wide range of sources for his samples, including songs/dialogue clips from movies and video games. This is a list of confirmed samples specifically drawn from games.

Ico

Sample from the song "Prologue" off of the Ico OST is used in "Prayer" from Burial's self-titled album.
A few songs off the Untrue album sample MGS2. "Archangel" samples the song "Opening Infiltration," while "Ghost Hardware" samples "Freedom to Decide."
Short sample from the original trailer to MGS4 is used in the opening few seconds of "Distant Lights" from Burial's self-titled album. Also, the song "Old Snake" is sampled in Burial's remix of the song "Paradise Circus" by Four Tet.
The song "Claw Finger" is sampled in the Burial track "Afterglow."
"Lost Carol" from the SH3 soundtrack is sampled in both "Endorphin" and "Chemz"
One of Enderman's idle noises is sampled in the track "Ashtray Wasp" off the Kindred EP.
Ambience from the Seath the Scaleless cutscene is used in the song "Loner" off the Kindred EP.
The song "Red Glowing Dust" from the Eve Online OST is sampled in "Come Down to Us."
Kerrigan saying "Don't be afraid" is sampled in "Come Down to Us."
Dialogue from Beyond: Two Souls is sampled in "Come Down to Us."
Ambiance from Silver is used in "Come Down to Us."
Voice sample used in "Temple Sleeper."
You can hear the Skull Kid's laugh clearly in the song "Indoors," and it's also more subtlely used in the track "Young Death."
Some dialogue from the game appears in the song "Subtemple."
"Nightmarket" samples the song "The Mansion" from The Last Ninja 2.
The voice clip of our Buddy "Mike Aruba" is featured in the song "Space Cadet"
"Dreamfear" includes a sample of Havi claiming "I am the High One, the Lord of Ecstasy."

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