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[mister j-y]

From the band that brought you Talkin All That Jazz and Fruitkwan, I chose this particular track for today:

[noiseredux]

one of my greatest joys in life is hearing some random tiny snippet of music somewhere and realizing it was sampled in a hip hop song I've known for years. Just now, my wife was listening to the score from Carrie and I was like "OMG!" - it's the foundation for Buck65's song "Centaur." Crazy.

[TSTR]

one of my greatest joys in life is hearing some random tiny snippet of music somewhere and realizing it was sampled in a hip hop song I've known for years. Just now, my wife was listening to the score from Carrie and I was like "OMG!" - it's the foundation for Buck65's song "Centaur." Crazy.

This happens constantly when I listen to funk internet radio stations like Traxx Funk or The Strobe Radio.

[noiseredux]

one of my greatest joys in life is hearing some random tiny snippet of music somewhere and realizing it was sampled in a hip hop song I've known for years. Just now, my wife was listening to the score from Carrie and I was like "OMG!" - it's the foundation for Buck65's song "Centaur." Crazy.

This happens constantly when I listen to funk internet radio stations like Traxx Funk or The Strobe Radio.

happens w/ me with jazz a lot, which makes me so happy.

I've thought about making a mixtape that's every jazz track sampled prominently on Midnight Marauders. This is my fav:



this is dope too:

[IrishNinja]

that's an awesome idea, noise! MM is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. i think Tribe Vibes did highlight some samples a while back?

as a big Wu head, i'm so hyped about the double album this summer, and seeing if the hidden one comes to a museum down here in MIA, haha...De La just emailed me about a free mixtape too, good day for music.

[DocHauser]

one of my greatest joys in life is hearing some random tiny snippet of music somewhere and realizing it was sampled in a hip hop song I've known for years.

This happened to me a few days ago. I'd transferred a bunch of obscure 70s rock albums onto my mp3 player and was listening on shuffle when I heard the line from 'Architecture' by Natti from Cunninlynguists, which was on his solo album from last year:



Then I thought, 'Hang on, that album isn't on my mp3 player at the minute' and it turned out I was listening to 'Fantastic Piece of Architecture' by Bloodrock, from 1970.



Same song was also sampled by Apollo Brown & O.C. for 'Fantastic':



And on the Lowkey/Immortal Technique song 'Voices of the Voiceless'!



Looks like the Lowkey song was the first one to use it...

[noiseredux]

that's an awesome idea, noise! MM is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. i think Tribe Vibes did highlight some samples a while back?

yeah I've seen those really big collections of samples. I wanted to try to do something that was 14 tracks long, so would only use whatever sample you'd consider to be the really prominent sample for each track. If that makes sense?

as a big Wu head, i'm so hyped about the double album this summer, and seeing if the hidden one comes to a museum down here in MIA, haha...De La just emailed me about a free mixtape too, good day for music.

there's 2 new Wu albums. There's a single album which will be released, and then the stupid double album museum tour thing that they say they will only sell 1 copy of. That, that makes me really furious. I mean, it's prob just publicity and will probably end up on iTunes or whatever. But if not, then that just sucks.

The De La mixtape is pretty good. It's all J. Dilla beats.

[IrishNinja]

yeah I've seen those really big collections of samples. I wanted to try to do something that was 14 tracks long, so would only use whatever sample you'd consider to be the really prominent sample for each track. If that makes sense?

yeah, i can see that - the other ones (Shaolin Soul does the same) are neat but literally reference every riff, however minute sometimes, haha. i'd dig it!

speaking of, if you ever want some fun with samples: DJ Riz - Live from Brooklyn (1 & 2) are awesome, don't see them on YT at the moment though.

there's 2 new Wu albums. There's a single album which will be released, and then the stupid double album museum tour thing that they say they will only sell 1 copy of. That, that makes me really furious. I mean, it's prob just publicity and will probably end up on iTunes or whatever. But if not, then that just sucks.

The De La mixtape is pretty good. It's all J. Dilla beats.

yeah, i'm of two minds on it - if it somehow goes to a private collector who's a dick, that sucks. it's more likely a label i'd imagine but i love the RZA and the idea of pushing the music as art is kinda neat, i mean how many artists are pushing for me to hear their exclusive shit in a museum in 2014? that's dope even just to text my fellow wu heads like "YALL AINT KNOW ABOUT THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE" haha. i also dig anything that fucks with shitty labels & standard 360 type bullshit contracts, so this feels like an amped up version of what Nipsey Hustle pulled last year, i tend to support stuff like that. and like you said, we're getting A Better Tomorrow either way!

for some reason i didn't catch that De La's joint was a Dilla production, now i'm even more excited to sit down with it.

[noiseredux]

if you get to go to the museum, feel free to text me. I'll be pissed. Haha.

But I mean, I can see the 'art' side of it. I just don't like the idea of like... I'd have to go to a museum, and hear these 31 songs once and then never again. How often to you really 'get' an album on first listen? Right?

[IrishNinja]

that's also a good point, especially with Wu stuff that's often a slow burn for me, too...