Its been a little while since i had a good old house mix...
So i thought id have a little play around with some tunes last night!
Recording went a bit awry and has little skips occasionally... my old laptop drive is a little on the slow side! Remember... it was a practise, not a session mix, so at times, im having a fair old play around.
Was watching Get Shorty... decided i actually really rate John Travolta as an actor.
So, got to looking up movies that John Travolta's done, and i saw that he's married to someone called Kelly Preston. I had no idea who that was, so i got on IMDB, and saw that shes been in a fair few films - only one of which i recognised. Space Camp.
Space Camp i remember watching as a kid, and remember this kid, Max, also being in Parenthood with Steve Martin.... who i remember having a really croaky voice as a kid. Didnt see this kid for years until Gladiator came out, Joaquin Phoenix.
His brother was River Phoenix, hes the one who od'd outside a club which Johnny Depp owned. Seems like River, Joaquin and Johnny were all pretty good mates, along with Keanu Reeves. River actually was a pretty good guitarist and would jam with the chilli peppers who wrote a song for River when he died. (Incidentally, the part that John Travolta plays in Get Shorty is Chili Palmer (chili / chilli))
ANYWAY, in a full circle kind of thing, this club that johnny depp owned... is the same club which features in Be Cool (Get Shorty 2), the viper room... which john travolta also stars in.
Now that truly was a totally pointless rambling, huh?
I was having a mix last night when i thought it could be interesting to chuck together a really quick mix totally at random... and run a 'name that tune' thing.
I apologise for any cagey scratching, i was messing around, it was practise, other excuses.
These are pretty much ALL hip hop instrumentals, identify each! There are 18, and at least one isnt actually dropped, i just give you a little bit of it (in a diabolically bad mix).
Enjoy!
If the above player doesnt work.... click here to download it instead :)
My bro was going out with who is now his wife and travelling down to london pretty much every weekend. He'd take tapes with him and record the sunday night dream team session, and london underground.
He came back with the tapes, id rob the tapes to listen to on my walkman at school, try to tell everyone that garage was the bomb and thats what it was (only to be told i was wrong by all the eastern district skiprats). However, there was one tape that simon always kept hold of - and one day i heard it in his car and figured out why. Hed accidentally caught the beginning of a patrick forge show and discovered something id never heard before.
It was my introduction to broken beat, tho i didnt call it that then - i called it future jazz (the name changes around, the vibe remains). There were a few tracks on there, but this was the standout. This blew my mind, and i could not find it anywhere - for love nor money.
Chris Energy 'Untitled' (takes a while to load up, but worth waiting for)
(click here to download if the player isnt working)
Turns out, chris energy is a guy who once was on reinforced records, did some jungle stuff, and got into the short-lived 'jazz-step' thing... this was the logical progression. I did actually eventually track down a copy in 2003, a 10" single side, limited press vinyl. Top stuff.
This stuff led to us eventually picking up on gilles show on radio 1.. and some years later (2003), i heard this on the worldwide show. Really nice track by a husband+wife outfit called dnell (who are well worth a listen).
Dnell 'Time To Say' (Break Reform Rmx) (takes a while to load up, but worth waiting for)
(click here to download if the player isnt working)
Heard that sample again. I loved it. Tried to figure out the sample at the time but my digging skills were poor, and I failed.
However, last year, common (yes, common again!) released 'Finding Forever' (which im going to have to review at some point and explain why i like this album more than BE), and on it was this nugget produced by will.i.am. You have to wait until 3:20.
Common 'I Want You'
The break! Couldnt believe it.
Heres where owning the cd was excellent, cause my digging techniques didnt have to even get started. I grabbed the case, opened the booklet - and true enough, there was the sample!
I heard it on abstract innovations a while back, but i just received it promo so i guess that Q-Tips new album 'The Renaissance' is about to get pushed.
Iv found a classic prog rock (1978) track that i really like. Im fairly into folky stuff and pretty open to hearing different stuff anyway, but im completely shocked and stunned by this one.
I mean, Joni Mitchell is great, and i like some real odd stuff... but i just never thought that id have to say...
Theres this Jethro Tull song i really like. Listen to the flute! It just works!
This all started with a friend of mine lining my hand with a repress of a Tom & Jerry 12" from the 90s called 'maximum style'.
ILL, right?
Anyway, later on (a few years) this led directly to me buying a jungle compilation cd (unmixed) simply because it had a tom & jerry track on it called 'air freshner'. Im a huge dnb fan, and an even bigger 4hero fan, so to say i was 'pleased' was a major understatement.
I loved the sample, the break, the whole thing just blew my mind, i remember hearing this as a lad, but it had completely gone from my memory.
Anyway, here it is.
Awesome, im sure you agree. Fast forward a few years, and im sat on youtube searching for music (its quite a nice way of finding new tunes), and i stumbled across this track by Common called Penny For Your Thoughts, from his first album 'can i borrow a dollar?' (click here if you want to hear it, but i couldnt find the edited version on youtube)
Being a huge common fan, it blew my mind.... and it reminded me just how much i needed to find the original break. Took a mental note, and carried on surfing, put in some names of some artists i felt i didnt know much about, next thing i knew, purely by chance... Im listening to it. Id found the original break.
In talking to a guy close to 4hero, both sampled tracks were around at a similar time and it was just a coincidence! Anyway, here it is, Eddie Kendricks - Intimate Friends. I truly love this track!
Not only that, im elitist, too. Makes me wonderfully endearing to the average person (as you can imagine). This blog is a place for me to rant, to share my thoughts, etc.
I will make musical posts here as I do from time to time, have musical discoveries and revelations that i feel just need to be shared. I was inspired to finally do this by my good friend (hence iv taken lots of setup cues from his blog), the walking mackination, mack nick from over on musikwelve.blogspot.com, where youll find all sorts of new music that you're not likely to never hear of otherwise.
Im hoping to entice a couple of my like-minded neek friends to participate, but with another blog on the go, it might not happen... but not to worry, i think i have enough bizarre stuff to talk about to keep it going.
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