psychoactive jungle vine and plants. Cobain described the development of "Papua New Guinea" as him writing, sequencing and playing the Roland JX-3P top-line synth parts live, and doing the same for the strings which were triggered from the 1040. Music 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. 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." Release "Papua New Guinea" was released in the United Kingdom in 1991. The label that was to release their debut album Accelerator held off releasing it for about 9 months and only released it after "Papua New Guinea" became a hit. The song later featured on the soundtrack album for the hybrid animation film Cool World starring Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger and Brad Pitt. Reception Garry Cobain later referred to the track as not "the best piece of music I've ever written, but it just hit a mindset". From retrospective reviews and commentary, Simon Reynolds described the track as a "sumptuous, gorgeously emotional rave anthem". Pitchfork had the song placed on their list of the top 200 singles from the 1990s, with writer Tom Ewing declaring it "A great example of breakbeat techno's early, optimistic peak, when simply nailing the right vocal sample-- here Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance-- put you halfway to something memorable." Charts References Sources External links 1991 songs The Future Sound of London songs 1991 debut singles Music Week number-one dance singles