i'd like to thank skweeeelicious and mms for killing this thread.
i feel like responding to something someone asked a while back, wondering what other music we listen to.
Although I'm not a juke producer, I can tell you first and foremost, what they listen to is in the music they make. Soul, Funk, hip hop, house, and techno. Especially stuff that doesn't have too much obvious drum patterns in it, but rich in chords. Example:
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Sometimes, a lot of the newer kids when getting into the scene wonder what to sample, I'll throw em that, or this below:
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I remember first showing this to Earl, and him coming back the next week goin, "Neema, I made 4 tracks off that one song alone!"
On that note, Traxman is a fuckin musical maniac. He worked at one of the best record shops in Chicago, Out of the Past, and knows who mastered an album, where it was pressed, what year, the band, everything! He's the definition of a vinyl head. If you guys ever wanna talk to somebody whose heard everything on Earth, Traxman is the man to see.
Sorry for goin off subject, but yeah, what is sampled is what the guys, as well as me incidentally, listen to most.