i'm utterly shocked i have never heard that intro/breakdown sampled on, like, a talib kweli song. or maybe i just am unaware of its having been sampled.
what are some songs you're shocked have never been sampled?
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Not bad. Just needs a switch up. That's what I was waiting for when I listening to it; another part to come in. Can get a bit monotonous. Unless your using it for a short interlude at the end of song.
>the youtube comments imply that Madlib has sampled it, but i >haven't heard his.
17. "RE: i've sampled that before." In response to Reply # 7
>>http://www.usershare.net/72mguncydsv9/41 Track 41.mp3 > >Not bad. Just needs a switch up. That's what I was waiting for >when I listening to it; another part to come in. Can get a bit >monotonous. Unless your using it for a short interlude at the >end of song.
thanks. i agree that it's monotonous...it's unfinished from about 4 years ago. never went back to it.
>>the youtube comments imply that Madlib has sampled it, but i >>haven't heard his. > >Post #6.
54. "i sampled it about 9 years ago" In response to Reply # 2 Thu May-19-11 09:36 PM by dafriquan
and was disappointed with the result. i think it sounded too "live" for my tastes back then. i also wasn't good at filtering samples to get the right feeling yet. that "i'll never go back to georgia" bass line is crazy and if i was to revisit it, i would just replay it.
which is why I loved Freeway/Jake One's THE BEAT MADE ME DO IT and Madlib's REMIXES 2: SATURDAY MORNING EDITION.
they really got me up on my game. I'm still trying to figure out W-T-F the base of "The Beat Made Me Do It" and "Old To The New" are. Most of the rest I have figured out.
The bit where the claps come (2:13) in would make a nice countryfied loop, but the real monster break starts just after 4:20 and contains a bunch of loopables... even after the band comes back in there's some great stuff - that recurring guitar riff that first shows up from 4:55 - 5:07? Could be gold for someone.
13. "Nice, that sounds like something Kno would loop up..." In response to Reply # 8
>these guys were kind of a poor man's The Band, but they've >got some good jams. > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BlKN4lleAk > >The bit where the claps come (2:13) in would make a nice >countryfied loop, but the real monster break starts just after >4:20 and contains a bunch of loopables... even after the band >comes back in there's some great stuff - that recurring guitar >riff that first shows up from 4:55 - 5:07? Could be gold for >someone.
also, speaking of him. Funkytowngrooves is reissuing SLINGSHOT. I never minded listening to that album, until I got a touch-screen unit in the Volvo and it shows album art....
24. "speaking of common records..." In response to Reply # 22
>Funkytowngrooves is reissuing SLINGSHOT. >I never minded listening to that album, until I got a >touch-screen unit in the Volvo and it shows album art....
that joint is in ALL the bins. i avoided it for so many years due to that cover alone. LOL. it's got some HEAT on it, but i don't need fam coming after me, lol...
I looped up that breakdown on my 303 a loooooooong time ago, but I ultimately just deleted it because it was TOO MUCH of a jack move. Some beautiful music should just be left alone, especially on a record as common as that Smokey LP.
I'll be damned if that isn't some of the best soul instrumentation I've ever heard though.
Surely 9th Wonder gave this one a shot at one point, right?
23. "Damn, I thought all the Tamla/Motown would be $1 bin status in the D." In response to Reply # 19
That's crazy though, it's a great album. Speaking of Tamla/Motown shit that never turns up, do you have a copy of that Eddie Kendricks - My People..Hold On? I had no idea that it was so hard to find in the field. Grabbed mine for $5 a few years ago but I've only seen one copy since then ($30).
Oh and disco dj better have been lying when he said that the Don Blackman LP is "everywhere" in Chicago. SMH I'll send him $50 hand-delivered by a goddess on a unicorn if he can ship me an OG copy*
* that goes for anyone else on these boards as well
25. "you'd think...but you'd be wrong. lol." In response to Reply # 23
>That's crazy though, it's a great album.
i'm generally not a fan of Smoke, but i own a gang of his albums. *shrugs*
>Speaking of >Tamla/Motown shit that never turns up, do you have a copy of >that Eddie Kendricks - My People..Hold On? I had no idea that >it was so hard to find in the field. Grabbed mine for $5 a >few years ago but I've only seen one copy since then ($30).
yeah, that's relatively easy to find. i'm pretty sure i got it for a dollar.
>Oh and disco dj better have been lying when he said that the >Don Blackman LP is "everywhere" in Chicago. SMH I'll send him >$50 hand-delivered by a goddess on a unicorn if he can ship me >an OG copy*
lol. i see that one every now and then.
>* that goes for anyone else on these boards as well
43. "RE: you'd think...but you'd be wrong. lol." In response to Reply # 25
that smokey shits been sampled. its on some scratch break record i have. the name escapes me right now tho. i wanna say doo doo breaks? i remember because theres a coiler on the cover.
56. "see that break down from 2:19 on is dope but" In response to Reply # 15
when i was digging it would need to have a key change in order to catch my ear. because its just one note, i'd be more likely to just grab a crisp stab and play different notes to make a melody out of it. by then it could be from anywhere and would lose the character of the sample source. probably end up sounding like a generic primo beat.
27. "The Millenium - Prelude" In response to Reply # 0
the amazing thing about this one is that the incredible drums make the section from :08 - :30 sound very much like a hip hop production, even though it's from 1968.
73. "Dave Mattacks is another 'folk' drummer perfect for sampling" In response to Reply # 53
esp. the Fairport stuff ca. 1970
his biggest open break is probably the intro to the title track from Angel Delight... UMB seems to be blocking postings of the studio version, but there's a live version (imho, not as good as the studio break) up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9cnk9Er3EI
but he's got great drums all over the Full House album as well.
I'm pretty sure the vocals (Huh! Hah!) have been sampled at some point, maybe even on the Kodo remix joint that Laswell helmed in the late 1990s. And the vocals (at the end esp.) present a lot of possibilities, as do most of the rest of the patterns they use throughout this piece.
But for me the piece that would sound awesome layered in somewhere, maybe a more electronica or ambient type of piece, is the jegog (bamboo gamelan) interlude, 2:09 - 2:37.
Yes...when me and my boys used to pretend that we'd be dope rappers (good thing I'm old enough to where anybody couldn't make a song when I was in high school), I had a whole (wack) song written to this called 'louging'. I had one of those long-winded 'Queens' hooks too. If only I could find that tablet from like 94. I coulda had ya'll rollin. Now, I'd have a song to this about a chick I like and I'd call it 'magic' and straight lift the hook. Good thing I don't have free time.
>that pentangles opening drum is a beast on liquid crack.
I've posted it in the Lesson several times. This live version is sharper than the studio version, but the studio's not shabby either... I think being 'the folk guy' on here prevents some of my posts of more general OKP interest from reaching a wider audience, but *shrug*
>rappers love rapping over that type of loop. > >i would loop the drums for three bars and let the music leak >into the fourth and then... >fock! > >i miss making sample-based beats.
68. "Bob James - Nautilus" In response to Reply # 0
i mean...Hip hop claims to be this nation of crate diggers and it just AMAZES me that in all of hip hop history...NO ONE has taken to the time to deconstruct this monster jam from some dude named Bob James. I hear he has a lot of albums...maybe I should inbox ?uest or something.
The whole track is only :58, but in that minute Theophilus Stokes pulls out an enormous range of astoundingly funky sounds and rhythms that I can only imagine would be a sample mine to the right ears.
75. "Posted this one before too, but Hobart Smith - Banging Breakdown" In response to Reply # 0
I think when I posted it up stankpalmer (or maybe someone else) chopped it up, but opted out of using the most obvious 'beat' - the 'banging' part of the tune (the dude's using his banjo head as a drum somehow).
81. "RE: songs you're surprised have never been sampled." In response to Reply # 0
I've sat on this one for decades but just now came to terms with the fact that I'll probably never be famous and have a chance to use it myself so here it is. It may be expensive to get the license because of who the artist is but I could definitely see a huge hit coming out of this. It has a more commercial feel but is damn funky in my opinion. The opening break and also parts of the extended break starting at 3:18 (with the flute sound and later the ominous guitar sound) to 4:15 is a treasure trove of loops.
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