Listening to an RJD2 collection called In Rare Form, and there’s a track on it (”Kill ‘Em All Remix”) that seems to be sampling the Laurie Anderson track “O Superman.”

It’s just for a few seconds, maybe two thirds of the way through the track: a repetative, synth-y pulse of sound fading in and then out again, “ah ah ah ah ah ah…”

“O Superman” is one of my favorite recordings — the whole song is composed of Laurie’s voice, accompanied by vocodered harmonies thereof and a couple touches of synth arpeggios. And a simple, unchanging cantus through it all — her vocodered voice singing, saying, laughing a single sound again and again for the whole eight minutes of the song. “Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah…”

To have it turn up out of the blue, worked into a very different sort of song, is a pleasure.