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!’
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
Madlib’s WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip coming 30/09/08 on BBE’s Beat Generation series
Madlib’s long-anticipated addition to BBE’s Beat Generation series will be released on Rapster/BBE this September 30th. Fitting comfortably into a series whose previous contributors include the late J Dilla, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and Pete Rock, Madlib will deliver one of his most straight forward neck snapping hip-hop albums to date.
WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip CD/2LP
1. The New Resident - Beat Konducta
2. Blow The Horns On ‘Em - Guilty Simpson
3. The Plan Pt. 1 - Georgia Anne Muldrow
4. Tension - Beat Konducta
5. Gamble On Ya Boy - Defari
6. The Ox (805) - MED feat. Poke
7. All Virtue - Beat Konducta
8. Blinfold Test #10 (He Don’t Play) - J.Rocc
9. The Thang-Thang - Prince Po
10. Heat - Madlib
11. Smoke Break - Beat Konducta
12. The Plan (Reprise) - Beat Konducta
13. Life - Karriem Riggins
14. Parklight - Beat Konducta
15. Yo Yo Affair Pt. 1 & 2 - Frezna
16. I Want It Back - The Professionals (Oh No & Madlib)
17. Disco Dance - Beat Konducta
18. What It Do - Liberation
19. Take That Money - Roc ‘C’ feat. Oh No
20. Drinks Up! - Frank N Dank
21. The Way That I Live - Stacy Epps
22. Ratrace - Murs
23. Go! - Guilty Simpson
24. Stop - Beat Konducta
“In late 2005 Pretty Tony Starks and MF DOOM were both recording over tracks from J Dilla’s instrumental opus, Donuts, which saw release the following February. Some of these were released on Ghostface’s Fishscale in 2006, while others, including a Dilla-Doom project, were postponed indefinitely after J Dilla’s passing…”
Two tracks from these sessions, “Sniperlite” + “Murder Goons,” will see release on Stones Throw’s new webstore. Coming soon.
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