Steinski <http://www.steinski.com/> NP: "Big Deep" Konk Pack on 1/12/04 16:18, Ben Axelrad at soulfrieda@hotmail.com wrote:
The first thing that came to my mind was also Public Enemy, but I was thinking of IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS.... It seems like around this time rappers were still borrowing heavily from relatively well-known musicians/songs. Check out "Rebel Without a Pause". If I recall correctly that's a sax solo from James Brown's Funky Bunch, Vol 1. And the noise loop in "Bring the Noise" is from the opening to Funkadelic's "Get Off Your Ass and Jam" (either that or "Take It To The Stage"). Who at that time was using JB and P-Funk in that way?
I'll second the De La recommendation. Also the Automator's work on Dr. Octagon stands out.
Also, while we're on the Laswell tip, I've always thought that the Jungle Brothers' "J Beez Wit The Remedy" was criminally underrecognized. This was made while the JBs were hanging with Laswell & co (Praxis, guest appearances on the Sly & Robby/Material and Bernie Worrell Gramavision albums...) and features Bootsy and Gary Mudbone Cooper. Half of the songs are really noisy, with lots of distortion, irregular beats, and strange vocals by Torture (Sensational).
Ben
From: skip heller <thisparadise@sbcglobal.net> To: adam morosky <amorosky@hotmail.com>, <zorn-list@lists.xmission.com> Subject: Re: sampling in avant garde and pop music Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:47:16 -0800
on 1/12/04 12:23 PM, adam morosky at amorosky@hotmail.com wrote:
what musician or composer do you feel really pushed the boundaries of what sampling can be for their genre?
Prince Paul's work on De La Soul's 3 FT HIGH, the Bomb Squad on Public Enemy's FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET. Anything by Mixmaster Mike. NuMark on the Jurassic 5 cut "Swing Set".
skip h
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