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Nas Is Like

Friday, August 20, 2010

If I had to pick a single track to explain to an alien or time traveler what hip-hop is and why it’s so awesome, I think I’d pick “Nas Is Like.” Nas has a great flow full of powerful imagery, but what makes this track for me is DJ Premier’s production. It’s a complex web [...]

Filed in music | Also tagged advertising, biz markie, dj premier, eurythmics, hip-hop, kool & the gang, memes, michael jackson, nineties, recursion, roxanne shante, sample maps, sampling, steve miller, turntablism | Comments (0)

Impeach The President

Sunday, April 11, 2010

This post isn’t about Obama. I love Obama. I’m talking about a classic breakbeat, the opening few seconds of “Impeach The President” by the Honey Drippers, and the president in question is Nixon.

Filed in music | Also tagged big daddy kane, biz markie, de la soul, digable planets, drumming, eric b & rakim, funk, hip-hop, honey drippers, mick jagger, nice & smooth, notorious big, sampling, slick rick, soul, wu-tang | Comments (0)

Apache makes you go hmmm

Sunday, January 17, 2010

DJ Kool Herc likes to say that The Incredible Bongo Band’s version of “Apache” is the national anthem of hip-hop. Its famous drum and percussion break reliably put bodies on the dance floor through hip-hop’s prehistory and has been sampled untold numbers of times. Here’s the break: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] On [...]

Filed in music | Also tagged apache, book, breakdancing, copyright, dance, dna, double dee and steinski, drum n bass, drumming, evolution, funk, goldie, grandmaster flash, hip-hop, history, kool herc, mashups, memes, missy elliot, pop, questlove, roots, sampling, seventies | Comments (0)

Human Nature

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Enjoy my remix of Human Nature. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Me vs Michael Jackson mp3 download, ipod format download For a long time, “Human Nature” was not my favorite song on Thriller. It took me many years to wise up to how awesome it is. Maybe it’s a gender thing. I played [...]

Filed in music | Also tagged book, jazz, michael jackson, miles davis, pop, quincy jones, remixes, rnb, sampling, swv, thriller, toto, tupac | Comments (7)

Mashups as micro-mixtapes

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Back in 1966, Glenn Gould predicted that recorded music would become an interactive conversation between musician and listener. He described dial twiddling as “an interpretive act.” He was wrong about the dials, but right about the main point, that technology would make listening to music more like making music. Anybody with iTunes instantly becomes a [...]

Filed in music | Also tagged book, dave brubeck, dj, dj earworm, django reinhardt, double dee and steinski, electronica, fan art, fugees, funk, girl talk, glenn gould, grandmaster flash, green lantern, hip-hop, jonathan lethem, kelis, ludacris, mashups, memes, michael jackson, mixtapes, mozart, paul simon, pop, pro tools, radiohead, recursion, remixes, sample maps, sampling, sasha frere-jones, wayne marshall, youtube | Comments (8)

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