Ok, I’m going through a bit of a backbacker/hip hop nerd phase again. I like all types of shit. I’m not even gonna break it down, but I love hip hop and I like to know where that sample came from. Ok maybe I am breaking it down!
10cc wrote most of those songs you knew all the words to as a kid and didn’t have a clue who it was. Come to think of it so did J Dilla. Pharcyde’s ‘Runnin’, ‘Vivrant Thing’ by Q-Tip, and De La’s ‘Stakes Is High’ were up there with ‘I’m Not In Love’, ‘Dreadlock Holiday’ and ‘Art For Arts Sake’ for classic tracks of their time.
Jay Dee had such a skill for digging it was scary. 2006’s Donuts was a mastepiece as far as raw sampling goes. The track ‘Workinonit’ took pieces of 1Occ’s ‘Worst Band In The World’ and ‘worked on it!’
The first time I heard the original Scratch 22 was spinning tunes up at Khuja. I soon found the record and tracked down this mix. DJ AME -’For the love of Dilla and the science of diggin!’. It has most of the tracks from Donuts. right click here
I am not going to link ‘Workinonit’ because you are going to buy that shit innit. I am sure Dilla’s mum could still use the money! http://stonesthrow.com/catalog
Anyway, enjoy the mix, peop the 10cc video (here) and check out a current Top 10 from the one like Scratch 22
Scratch 22 - August Top 10
1 Orchestre Poly Rythmo - Gbeti Madjiro
2 Nina Simone - It Be’s That Way Sometime
3 Hopeton Lewis - Take It Easy
4 Can - Moonshake / Future Days
5 Mujava - Township Funk
6 Optymus Grime ft Billy Fluid - A Billy
7 Beck - Chemtrails / Gamma Ray
8 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
9 Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
10 Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty
Orchestre Poly Rythmo - Gbeti Madjiro
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