 Songs from the album have been sampled frequently by hip hop producers and artists , including Black Moon , who sampled " A Divine Image " , and DJ Shadow , who sampled the luminous piano line from " The Human Abstract " on his 1996 song " Midnight in a Perfect World " . English hip hop producer <unk> called Songs of Experience one of his favorite sources for sampling music and said of the album in an interview for Hip Hop Connection : " You could sample everything on this record , and I think everyone already has . Axelrod is pretty much a sound library in himself – the quality is amazing . " American musician John McEntire ranked it third on his list of top @-@ five albums and called it " early crate @-@ digger stuff . Great , funky rhythm @-@ section playing , crazy , overblown string arrangements . " In a 2000 interview for The Wire , rapper and producer Mike Ladd viewed the song " London " as " crazy stuff " that deviates from the one @-@ dimensional rhythm loops of contemporary hip hop production and stated , " This is definitely the kind of stuff I 'm planning to do for the next album , incorporate more fusion elements and stuff like that . This is a really good production . I like it because it 's little parts with gaps , which I don 't normally have . Somebody told me I should listen to [ Axelrod ] . This is one I 'm definitely going to buy I 'd like to do more stuff with complicated melodies , everybody playing together , drum breaks , things like that . " 
