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Like many aficionados I’m recurrently led to great music by following a path of influence suggested by an often disconnected delectus. Another genre / artist / song’s prompt can serve as the threshold to a previously unheralded genus; Most foundation Jungle breaks eventually ended up on my shelves in their original (albeit mostly repressed)’70’s Funk forms and Goldie – through enthusing about their drummer - compelled me to check for Talk Talk’s wonderful Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock albums, as equally Hip Hop preceded my appreciation of, for example, The Headhunters and Lynn Collins.
Listening to Grievous Angel’s Mix4BlackdownVol1 last week I was motivated to consider the sample looped throughout Gang Starr’s oeuvre-defining Mass Appeal (one of the 20 or so most inventive U.S. hip hop beats?). Unearthing the origin was made easy by my visit to the excellent - and previously undiscovered - whosampled.com, a user-generated website dedicated to “exploring and discussing the DNA of music”. The M.O. is simple: insert the title of the considered song and, expectantly, the details of samples central to it will be displayed. The real beauty of the process is that entries are usually accompanied by YouTube clips, often outlining the placement of the sample in both the original and updated/borrowed/stolen rendition. Cover versions are similarly, erm, covered.
Returning to Mass Appeal, those foolish enough to consider Preemo anything other than a production virtuoso should head straight for the link below. That anyone could have the foresight and musical nous to turn a seemingly innocuous 2 second grab into such a compelling masterstroke of achievement must surely speak for itself.
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/655/Gang Starr-Mass Appeal_Vic Juris-Horizon Drive/
Listening to Grievous Angel’s Mix4BlackdownVol1 last week I was motivated to consider the sample looped throughout Gang Starr’s oeuvre-defining Mass Appeal (one of the 20 or so most inventive U.S. hip hop beats?). Unearthing the origin was made easy by my visit to the excellent - and previously undiscovered - whosampled.com, a user-generated website dedicated to “exploring and discussing the DNA of music”. The M.O. is simple: insert the title of the considered song and, expectantly, the details of samples central to it will be displayed. The real beauty of the process is that entries are usually accompanied by YouTube clips, often outlining the placement of the sample in both the original and updated/borrowed/stolen rendition. Cover versions are similarly, erm, covered.
Returning to Mass Appeal, those foolish enough to consider Preemo anything other than a production virtuoso should head straight for the link below. That anyone could have the foresight and musical nous to turn a seemingly innocuous 2 second grab into such a compelling masterstroke of achievement must surely speak for itself.
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/655/Gang Starr-Mass Appeal_Vic Juris-Horizon Drive/
