Walk & Skank On A Ragga Tip...

Jah Screechy - Walk and Skank

Click on the link , needs no introduction, but you get a little one....SL2 - On a Ragga Tip. Immediate satisfaction!

One from Paul's Boutique.....

There's around 100 samples (exactly 100 from what I've got) that went into making the Beastie Boys masterpiece that's Paul's Boutique, where do I begin! This is the bulk of Car Thief.
Funk Factory - Rien Ne Va Plus

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Eye Know I Love You Better......

If I've ever got a year to spend I'll do a comprehensive De La Soul post, but I had to chuck this one in for a daily treat, from "Eye Know", The Mad Lads - Make This Young Lady Mine.

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And I may as well chuck in the hook you all know - Steely Dan - Peg. Search for them performing it live on youtube, its top banana.

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The Bicycles...

It'll take ages to build up this section but here's a little taster of some of them, I'll probably put them in to sub-categories, detailed and better pics and spec for the bicycle nerds. But just to get you started....


SE Racing Quadangle - 1983

Quad! Had it for years, keep thinking of freshening it up but, nah, I like it.


Hutch Pro Star - 1984

Won Bike of The Year with this in 2007. Shiny and expensive, don't know what else to put. £1200 in 1984, now ....?, that's what a lot of people ask. It's got the number plate now, major overhaul.



Hutch XL24 - 1983

The chrome on this wasn't too bad, original thick triple chrome and had it blasted and powdered. Idiot.



Hutch Lil Hole Shot - 1981

Original finish Lil Hole Shot. Very early for a Hutch frame, built a the Thruster factory, pre-serial, pre-drilled forks and the real clincher, pre-stamped brake bridge. Oldest Hutch I know of on my street.


Torker 280X - 1982

All original import, always wanted one and never thought one this perfect would come my way. My luckiest purchase, easily best survivor I've ever had. Came first at MK09 in the street bike catergory.



Haro Freestyler Gen 1 - 1982

The first! Always preferred Jay's Dominguez replica to the Bob Haro builds so...this bike went slightly in that direction. The Bob Haro builds are quite tough to get right, it doesn't happen often.



Team Mongoose w/ Motomags - 1981

The oldest bike I've got. Look at them motomags..... 81 was on the cusp of the proper vintage parts and the more modern bits being released so a touch of old and "new". All era correct stuff. Like all the beasts in here.


Skyway TA-1983

Had about 8 TA's, seemed a bit extreme and this was the last white one. I didn't put that crappy chainring on though. Sold!


SE Racing PK Ripper - 1982

Old pic - now had a major make-over, new paint, yet to be revealed....



Hutch Trick Star - 1985

Original survivor paint, came from New York 5-6 years ago. Sat under my bed for years , was going to strip it to paint candy blue. Cleaned off the old gunk from grip tape and stickers and finally saw its potential. That would of been a crime to get the Nitromoors out. Phew! The pic's old, had a major overhaul since...Hutch grips, Bullseye front hub, coaster rear and a chain. Came 2nd at MK08 in the Freestyle section. It was against Jay, so I can live with that.



Hutch Judge - 1985

Thrown together in an afternoon with spares, was never that bothered doing this justice. It'd cost £3-£4000 in parts and the Pro Star ticked the Hutch box for me, so was pointless. Never took to it really, considering the fuss people make over these frames. Last frame and forks sold on ebay for over £1500. This will be on there soon, just getting resto'd. Fingers crossed....



GT Pro Nora Cup - 1982

Had this build constantly evolving for about 5 years until recently, was time to sell up and say goodbye.



Haro FST - 1985

Influenced by the late Marc Reardons custom Sport that I couldn't stop looking at 25 years ago. Now sold.



Haro Master - 1985

My first frame and forks when I started collecting. Came across this nos Master on ebay, had it as a xmas present to just hang on a wall. 6 years down the line and 75 bikes later.....got re-built so many times, this was its last incarnation, but now sold. Won the peoples choice award at MK08 with the new owner.



Skyway TA XL - 1984

TA XL, a well planned build that looked crude on execution. Too many logo's, too busy. Rebuilt now with more blue anno, less chrome and blue Ukai's, more subtle and looks heaps better. Need a pic.



Skyway TA - 1983

An oldie, TA given a lick of pink paint. Experimental afternoon build with some spares. Long gone.



Tange Hot Heart - 1982

Drilled Hot Heart for the Kuwahara KZ2.5 conversion. Now sold.



JMC Micro Mini - 1984

Only 85 of these were made, about 5 left known to exist. Mint survivor, all original. Nice!

Deee-lite cut up into little pieces.....

Time for a posting to uncover as much of Deee-lite's Groove's in the Heart as possible. Bassline was always readily available but it's taken a few years for the rest of it to sneak out in the public domain - especially the intro. Very satisfying hearing that one.....



Bel-Sha-Zaar with Tommy Genapopoluis & The Grecian Knights

Now this is a real beauty - 20 years of hunting and curiosity over. Hubba Hubba.

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Vernon Burch - Get Up

Its the drums's and whistle, the beat is obvious from the off but the juicy bit is at 2.22.

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Herbie Hancock - Bring Down the Birds

It's that bassline - taken from the soundtrack to the film Blow Up.

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Ralph McDonald - Jam on the Groove

On old b-boy classic, for the grooviest percussion break known to man and beast @ 3.45

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Sweet Pussy Pauline - Hateful Head Helen @ 3.05

This is the "brrrrrr" bit that you'd be forgiven for thinking it was Bootsy Collins. Some filthy but funny comedy, sampled by 2 Live Crew if that lets you know where it's at....

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Green Acres TV theme

Just a little snippet but we may as well be anal about this. The "I I,I,I" bit, scrub to 0.35.

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Ray Barretto - Right On

Nice! Latin percussion break, top stuff from start to finish.

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The Headhunters - God Made Me Funky

Another b-boy favourite for the breaks, used by Deee-Lite for the scratched drum roll.

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There's one more I wanted to post up but can't find a link, the drum break under Q Tip's rap is from Billy Preston's cover of Stevie Wonder's Uptight. And slooowed right down.






I guess you'll need Groove is in the Heart to reference.....Enjoy!

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Coldcut's Paid In Full remix dissection

Right then , this won't be conclusive, it's a bit of a bugger finding clips for everything, there were a whole heap of samples used. Although, they weren't actually "sampled", Coldcut didn't have a sampler at the time, they recorded direct from vinyl on to 4 track.







"This is a Journey Into Sound" this vocal sample that starts off the track and with a few other lumps thrown in, "Stereophonic Sound For Dance Music". Came from a record from Decca called "A Journey Into Stereo Sound" that introduced people to the exciting new world of stereo recordings, spoken by British actor Geoffrey Sumner. I bought one of these by accident in a charity shop years ago, popped it on the turntable and almost had heart failiure.

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Salsoul Orchestra - Ooh I Love It (Love Break) @ 5.40

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Ofra Haza's Im nin'alu from the album Yemenite Sounds

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Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - Ashley's Roachclip @3.30

I wasn't going to include bits from the original mix of Paid In Full, just the remix but what the heck, here's the famous drum beat used on a heap of cool stuff, like Milli Vanilli, PM Dawn, EMF....ok, but there are some good ones too. Also buried in the track is the filtered flute lick from Paid In Full. And....at the begining you'll find a chunk of Run DMC's "Runs House".

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Sound Experience - Boogie Woogie

Nice conga break, never heard the original before today, been after this for donkeys years. The vocal was used on an earlier Coldcut mash up track "Beats and Pieces".

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Play School & Play Away -Bang on a Drum lp @ 1.50

Well, I've never heard this original before either, a very groovey drum break from right at the end of Paid In Full. Awesome.

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The most scratched scratch of all scratches

Graffiti artist and hip hops man about town Fab 5 Freddy released a record in 1982 called Change The Beat. On the flip side was a French female rapped version by a "Fab 5 Betty". The last 5 seconds, a vocodered vocal saying "Aaaargh, This Stuff is Really Fresh" has become easily the most scratched sound of all time, the turntablists choice for battle and playtime. What's so special? It's got a variety of subtle attack points with long decayed sounds, plenty of texture that produces a good crisp mid to top end punch from the needle without anything heavy underlying it.

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Here's my favourite use of the scratch, on the Coldcut remix of Eric B & Rakim's Paid In Full. It kicks in at 4.50 but the record's always worth a listen in its entirety. Coldcut got a mere £750 for this remix. Bought a drum machine apparently with the proceeds (and prompted them to make an instrumental version called "Not Paid Enough") and the record gave them a big leg up in the industry and a ton of credibility.

Anyway.......the remix needs a post on its own to uncover the samples....

Some old sleeve design work

Draft artwork for another PWR sub-label compilation concept - to produce a series of themed albums specialising in releasing collections of the original sampled music used in classic hip-hop albums such as this, based on De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising.






Web design for PWR




Best Of Hull front cover for PWR








More concept artwork for PWR, for a compilation of original sampled records more aimed at a commercial market, concentrating on tracks that have had chart success.






Concept artwork for a compilation for PWR. It contained block party classics from the early days of hip hop, typically what Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc and Afrika Bambataa's would have played in the Bronx during the '70's.







This sleeve was designed for an E.P. for the final major project on the National Diploma in Music Tech I studied. The sound and style of the songs were quite timeless, originally acoustic sessions with a gospel feel to the production on the remix. With that in mind I wanted the E.P. to look like an old collectable 7" single, took a copy of War by Edwin Starr and got to work in photoshop.

Classic Oberheim DMX & DX Hip Hop beats

Yet another video from Harlem Night Music, this time re-creating some old school hip hop tracks with credible authenticity. So I guess the Roland TR-808 cited as THE hip hop drum machine was from Def Jam's emergence onwards around '85? Where the Oberheim sound dominated production before that. It gave Run DMC their classic early sound and before that Grandmaster Flash and Herbie Hancock's Rocket...I'll also presume the Hurby Luvbug productions with Salt N Pepa.

Video Track List

* The Show - Doug E Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew
* Walk this Way - Run DMC & Aerosmith
(snare: EMU Drumulator, guitar distortion: Roland SE50)
* The Message - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
* Change le Beat - Fab 5 Freddy
* Mr. Big Stuff - Heavy D & the Boyz
* Say what you wanna say - Lovebug Starski
* Children's Story - Slick Rick
* No sell out - Malcolm X & Keith LeBlanc
* Sucker MC - Run DMC
* One for the Treble - Davy DMX
* Rock it - Herbie Hancock
* White Lines - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel




* Here's another list of some hip hop and pop records that used the DMX and DX

New Order - "Blue Monday" (1982)[1]
Herbie Hancock and Bill Laswell - "Rockit" (1983)
The Police - "Every Breath You Take" (kick drum only; Stewart Copeland overdubbed snare, toms, and cymbals) [2]
The Cure - "The Walk"
Madonna - "Holiday", "Into The Groove", "Lucky Star" (clap)
Kim Carnes - "Voyeur"
Ryan Paris - "Dolce Vita"
Run-D.M.C. - "Sucker MC's"
Midnight Star - "Midas Touch" and others
Grandmaster Flash - "The Message"
Mike Oldfield
Gazebo - "Lunatic", "Masterpiece"
Stevie Nicks - "Stand Back" (with live drums added)
Roni Size
Thompson Twins
David "Hawk" Wollinski
Phillipe Saisse
David Frank of the System
Alexander O'Neal "Innocent" (as well as his entire debut album)
Eurythmics - "Right by your side"
Eurythmics - "I Could Give You (A Mirror)"
Eurythmics - "Wrap It Up"
Eurythmics - "Somebody Told Me"
Eurythmics - "Regrets"
Eurythmics - "Julia"
Eurythmics - "I Love You Like A Ball And Chain"
Slick Rick
Lee Malley - The Alien Undead
Steely & Clevie
Eddie Murphy - "Party All The Time"
Falco - "Der Kommissar"
Rick James - "Super Freak"

Classic LinnDrum Disco & Pop

I say LInnDrum, ok it's a Korg Electribe ES1mkII loaded up with LinnDrum sounds. Found this great video on youtube posted up by harlemnightsmusic showing you some examples of how extensively used the LinnDrum was on so many iconic records. I want one.

* Here's a list of some of the tracks this drum machine has been used on featured and the video......

Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Searchin' - Hazell Dean (megamix version)
Don't you want me - Human League (the first Linndrum hit track, 1981)
Walkin' on Sunshine - Rocker's Revenge (the original combines with Oberheim DX)
Maniac - Michael Sembello
When Doves Cry - Prince (snare from SCI Tom)
Midnight Man - Flash & the Pan
Beat the Street - Sharon Redd
Love how you feel - Sharon Redd
So many Men so little Time - Miquel Brown
State of Independence - Donna Summer
Eyes without a Face - Billy Idol (additional clap from Oberheim DX)
What's Love got to do with it - Tina Turner
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Wanna be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson
Maneater - Hall & Oates (intro, solo part)
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
I want to break free - Queen
Sign your Name - Terence Trent d'Arby


And here's a list of a few more....


ABC — "Lexicon of Love"
George Benson — "Turn Your Love Around"
Berlin — "Dancing in Berlin", "No More Words", "Take My Breath Away" (LM-2)
Bobby Orlando - "All People Are The Same", "Reputation", "Take A Chance"
Blancmange — Happy Families
Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy", "Why", "Junk", "Close To The Edge", "I Gave You Everything", "Hit That Perfect Beat"
Irene Cara — "What a Feelin'" and the rest songs on her 1983 album
John Carpenter — "Escape From New York"
The Cars — "Drive" (possibly LinnDrum)
Glenn Frey - You Belong To The City (Linn 9000)
Chemical Brothers — "It Doesn't Matter"
Phil Collins - "Sussudio", "Don't Lose My Number"
Miquel Brown - "So Many Men, So Little Time", "Beeline"
Culture Club — "Karma Chameleon", "The War Song"
F.R. David — "Words", "Pick Up The Phone"
Devo — "New Traditionalists" Album, 1981 (Alan Myers can be seen "playing" a LM-1 in the music video for "Beautiful World")
Dollar
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
Diana Ross - "Chain Reaction"
Pat Benatar - "Love Is A Battlefield"
Farley Jackmaster Funk
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - "Don't Take My Coconuts"
Jan Hammer - "Crockett's Theme"
John Foxx
Huey Lewis and the News — "Heart of Rock & Roll"
Matthew Friedberger — Holy Ghost Language School/Winter Women
Peter Gabriel — "Shock the Monkey" and almost all the other songs on his fourth album.
Genesis — "Genesis" ("Mama")
Steve Hackett — Cured
Hall & Oates — "Maneater" (heard at beginning of song and during saxophone solo when acoustic drums drop out)
Heaven 17
Don Henley — "The Boys of Summer", "Sunset Grill", "Dirty Laundry" (beginning of song)
The Human League — "Don't You Want Me", Dare, Hysteria, "Mirror Man"
Icehouse — "Great Southern Land," "Hey, Little Girl", from the album Primitive Man; Sidewalk
Billy Idol - "Eyes Without A Face"
Michael Jackson — "Thriller", (including the title track, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "Human Nature")
Jean Michel Jarre
Elton John — "Nobody Wins"
Mark Knopfler — "Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)"
Madonna — "Burning Up," "Everybody," "Rain", "Borderline", "Physical Attraction", "Gambler"
Modern Talking (used Linn 9000)
Giorgio Moroder — Cat People OST, Scarface OST, "Together in Electric Dreams", among others
Lime - on their album "Unexpected Lovers"
Divine - "I'm So Beautiful", "You Think You're Man"
Digital Emotion - "Go Go Yellow Screen", "Get Up", "The Beauty & The Beast"
Gary Numan — "Dance", "Telekon"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Peter Brown - "They Only Come Out At Night", "Classical Dancing", "Love Is Just A Game"
Ready for the World — "Oh Sheila"
Men Without Hats — "Rhythm of Youth"
Roxy Music — "Avalon" (all songs built from the ground up using an LM-1 Drum Computer)
Ryan Paris
Laserdance (LM-2 in "Power Run", "Humanoid Invasion" and others)
Prince — the majority of his 1980s albums, including the singles "When Doves Cry," "1999", and "Let's Go Crazy"
Queen — "I Want to Break Free", "Radio Ga-Ga"
Todd Rundgren
Michael Sembello — "Maniac"
Pete Shelley — Homosapien, XL1
Rod Stewart — "Young Turks"
Most Stock, Aitken, and Waterman productions during the 1980s (possibly LinnDrum or Linn 9000)
Donna Summer
Joy (used Linn 9000 in "Touch By Touch", "Valerie")
Thompson Twins
Justin Timberlake — "Until the End of Time"
Ultravox — "We Came To Dance"
Vangelis
Vanity — Wild Animals
Visage - "Beat Boy"
Wham! - "Last Christmas"
Bill Wolfer — Wolf
Baobab - "Let's Break", "N.O.J.O.B"
Stevie Wonder — "Part Time Lover"
The Twins - "Ballet Dancer", "Love In The Dark", "Talk To Me" and others.
Sparks - "Popularity", "Sports", "Minnie Mouse", "Rocking Girls"
Sandra (used Linn 9000 in "Maria Magdalena", "Hi Hi Hi", "In The Heat Of The Night")
Fancy - "Chinese Eyes", "Bolero", "In Shock"
Mike Mareen - "Love Spy"
Samantha Fox - "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" (possibly LinnDrum LM-2)
Gazebo - "Telephone Mama"
Laura Branigan - "Take Me", "When I'm With You"
Janet Jackson - used LM-2 on her 1985 album "Dream Street"

More Theme from S'Express mysteries uncovered...

"Enjoy This Trip" @ 4.34 "And It Is A Trip" @ 4.42

Gene Roddenberry - The Star Trek Dream LP from 1976






"Countdown is Progressing" @ 0.06

Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House: The Martian Monster - Disney LP from 1964






"Oh, That's Bad, No That's Good"

Sam Sham and The Pharoahs - Oh That's Good, No That's Bad





"Drop That Ghetto Blaster" "Suck Me Off" the last 10 seconds.....and it's explicit.

Karen Finley - Tales of Taboo






Having the sampling track at hand makes sense to reference.....

Horny horns - Theme from S' Express sample....

We've all know the Rose Royce "Is it Love Your After" sample but there's always a pain in the arse tune your trying to uncover when dissecting a track and this one took some time before the internet provided the answers to all mysteries. Theme from S'Express was massive when I first started DJ'ing in '88, loved that record and most of the stuff they made around that time. Mark Moore was an interesting DJ with a broad eclectic taste and that showed in the records he made. Click on the youtube link, it's the fanfare horn sample buried away in this funk stomper......kicks in a couple of times but it's the one at 2.17 you want. BTW it's Crystal World by Crystal Grass. Enjoy!

Everybody loves a 303.....

I found this nice little Roland TB-303 work out on youtube (posted by aszent), joined by the Roland TR-909, the house music producers favourite drum machine. Not my usual listening but anyone with a serious interest in dance music from the last 30 will be curious about these iconic machines. Originally the 303, released in 1982, was designed to accompany guitarists so they could step- program a bass line to play along with. During 1985 DJ Pierre from the group Phuture had got hold of one and started tweaking the controls during playback and discovered noises beyond what any guitarist had any use for. The first recording was named "Acid Tracks", with its name and sound forming a new genre of dance music. The Roland TB-303 had found new interest, soon becoming a sought-after piece of kit among house producers. Its original UK price, £238, with both the 303 and the 909 still hugely in demand, commanding about £1000 each on ebay.