Gratuitous hiphop spoddery

[hirez]

All you proper DJs can point and laugh at the dimlo - The Incredible Bongo Band are rather good, aren't they?

It's vaguely like having a Stallman moment and realising that you've found the source code for a lot (an awful lot) of old-skool hiphop and electro records.

You may picture the JHR listening to that break over and over while grinning like a fool.

Edit: Of course, now I think about it great wedges are to be found on The Dirtchamber Sessions. A CD that I played to death at the time. Ho hum.

It all started with a conversation with hamsterhotep, which is entirely satisfactory. Oh, yes: http://krispenhartung.blogspot.com/2005/12/project-mri.html Which points to samples of a MRI scanner at work. A sack of superconducting hammers, if you will.

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[aeia.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed he managed to come up with something so Mellow from the racket an MRI scanner makes!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's... Pleasant. I'm not entirely sure I'd listen to it again, but one never knows. The original noises in the 'source' folder are much more fun, though.

Hm. There's a thought. If I lent you my MD recorder..?

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Ooo. I like that.

Have you ever heard any ALP btw? Similar idea. You might enjoy tracks such as Disck Drive Kettle Washing Machine and Door Fridge Microwave Water.

http://www.epitonic.com/index.jsp?refer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epitonic.com%2Fartists%2Falp.html

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Oooh.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It is, isn't it? (On a winders box, anyway. Shonky bloody Flash malarkey. I should send in the TBL shock-troops to give their trendy Hoxton-finned-and-bearded heads a shoeing.)

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Yup. :)

If there were a source code I think the Apache and Amen breaks would be essential elements. I have a few compilations of old Blue Note recordings that they put together because they were the original source of several classic hip-hop tracks. There is also a compilation series called The Breaks which does similar but with a broader selection of classic sampled tracks.

Quite a few classic breaks on here http://www.joejahnigen.com/grooves.htm and this is maybe worth a look too, more in depth but not as easy to browse. http://www.the-breaks.com/

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You may imagine me, while pottering on my bike yesterday arvo, running through the old-skool section of my records in my head, going "I know I've got that bloody break. It's not in any of the Tackhead (or Fats Comet or DJ Cheese), I don't think it's Afrika... World Famous Supreme Team? Nah. High-Fidelity Three? Nah. Timezone? Newcleus? Bugger!"

In the background, I've been buying old Meters (and the like) LPs when I find them, just because.

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Chugchugchug. Love it. Keep meaning to take my MDR out with me, i'd use it just as much as a snapshot camera.

[hamsterhotep.livejournal.com]

Fabulous.

Things That Make Noise! Yum!