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"Joe Sample" (Volume 3, "Hip-Hop is Not Dead!")

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September 13, 2008 03:06 PM PDT

Open a nice bottle of Merlot, sit back, and enjoy these great and diverse samples. It still amazes me how deep these Hip-Hop producers search for their "Diamond's in the rough" searching high and low through dusty record stores to find that perfect beat.

This playlist starts off with Hip-Hop's biggest and best posse, The Wu-tang Clan as they sample The Charmels. From there Styles P samples Freda Payne and The great Dr. Dre samples the jazzy David McCallum.

Nas proclaims "Hip-Hop is Dead" as he samples The Incredible Bongo Band. Then We have: ATCQ sampling a rare version of the song "Red Clay." The Beastie Boys always do their thing, The Fugees found some smooth Enya and Erick B. and Rakim borrow from James Brown's buddy Bobby Byrd.

As you can tell, I really got into this type of "musicology." This is what tore me away from House Music during the 90's.

I hope you Enjoy the Music as much as I do!

djs

"Joe Sample" (Volume 2, "Diggin' a little Deeper")

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August 21, 2008 11:12 AM PDT

This series has been a blast to create! I probably need another web page just to do these Hip-Hop sample playlists. There is so much good music to play with.

JS#2, starts of with, AZ an artist that never really got his just due as a rapper. This tune "Sugar Hill" was probably his biggest hit. I remember the original "Sugar Free" by Juicy in the mid 80's. "Tears" by the great underground posse, The Wu Tang Klan was on their classic debut. Wendy Rene sang her heart out on "After the Laughter" in the 60's not knowing she would "meet up with the Wu" one day. Up next are smash cuts by Digable Planets, Common and Biggie and their original counter parts.

My favorite sample on this mix is by A Tribe Called Quest's "Luck of Lucian" the sample of Billy Brooks' 40 Days is just "Sick!"

You can learn so much diggin through your parents old records. Thanx Mom!

Enjoy!
djs

"Joe Sample"

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August 18, 2008 10:43 AM PDT

Every once and a while I dig through the crates and make jazz cd's and hip-hop cd's as well. In this series "Joe Sample" I merge both genres and search for original music that hip-hop artist used for their samples. There are 9 of my favorite hip-hop joints by: Camp Lo, Tribe, Black Moon, Raashan Ahmad, Kanye, Jigga, MC 8, Nas and Lord Tariq.

Accompanied by the originals by: Dynasty, Minnie Riperton, Ronnie Laws, Jon Lucian, Shirley Bassey, David Ruffin, Tyrone Davis, Bob James and Steely Dan.

You will surely enjoy these songs...

djs

I've already started J.Sample part 2 (OOOOoooooo) can't wait!

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I was 13 years old when I first saw it. 2 turntables and that "beautiful" mixer. It just seemed like the whole world to me at the time: 1980, in Detroit Mich. A factory driven town that produced a style all its own. Especially when it came to music. In the "D" we did it like no other! "Progressive" was the music of choice, it consisted of any type of music that was dance floor friendly, from Was Not Was' "Wheel me Out" to Roy Ayers "Runnin Away" to The Skatt Bros. "Walk the Night" to D-Train's "You're The One for Me." Throughout the early 80's being a DJ gained you more "props" than being the Quaterback on the local high school football team. This was still before the term "House Music" was being used. The "D" was the place to be with its backyard parties and local social clubs: Ciabattino, Gables, Bratts, Hardware, Snobbs, Twinz and Comrades to name a few. To hear this music on a regular basis you had to know or have access to a "Hot DJ" who could make you a tape. The radio had nothing to do with this movement, which to me was part of the appeal. Out of this era birthed legendary DJ's: The late, Ken Collier, Charles Hicks, Delano Smith, Kevin Dysard, Ray Berry, Alen Easter, and Ron Scott who was one of my mentors. I was a kid in a candy store playing records with these guys and co-founding Comrades with my boy Marv. I put down the turntables for a while in college, a move that I will always regret. I didn't get back into it 'till 2000. A visit to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and checking out Theo Parrish (He "crushed it!") spurred my interest again. These playlists are mostly from that 2000-2004 time period... Please enjoy as I share one of my true loves: "M-U-S-I-C deep inside of me, Music!" (D-Train)

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