NYC (NRahav@ixl.com)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:41:25 -0400
Was it the bucketheads?
I thought it was Kenny Dope GOnzalez - Street Sounds
coulda been done more than once, I guess...
But yes, Ashwin is totally right. I think Rick probably
knows this, though, and was just wondering about housey
tracks that sample rocky music (though steely dan and boz
scaggz are more soul than rock - whatever - fuck categoriez)
another good example: that song that came out a few years ago that sampled
"Without Love, where would we be right now" by the Doobie Bros.
There was definitely a Hazey period arond '86 when all the cats were making
rock-rap fused beats. I wonder what originally started that trend. But out
of that came:
Run DMC - walk this way, king of rock
Beasties - Rhymin and stealin, no sleep till BK
KRS1 - Dope Beat
Kurtis Blow - Street Rock (i think)
It musta been all those record execs trying to get hip hop to crossover in
the most overt way. But that doesnt explain KRS because criminal minded
didnt come out on a big label... hmmm....
But Rock was (secretly) in hip hop way before that - e.g. Liquid Liquid,
Blondie,Incredible Bongo Band, that beat from UMC's ego trippin, "I got the
Big Beat" break....etc...
.·´¯`·.¸¸.N·a·t.¸
-----Original Message-----
From: Ashwin Tumne [mailto:ashwin@visgen.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 9:51 AM
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Housemusic sampling Rock music!!??
>
> First, King Britt sampled "Dirty Lowdown"- Bozz Scaggs for The Reason.
> 2nd Dj Eric (French) sampled "I can't go for that" - Hall & Oates for
> "We are love".
> 3rd ??? sampled "Do it Again"- Steely Dan.
>
Hip-hop producers have been sampling rock albums for decades. There are
tonnes of beats that originated from classic rock/metal albums
(eg. Bretheren, Motherlode, Black Sabbath, Power of Zeus). Countless
funky riffs and vocals can be found from rock artists for sampling in
house, hip-hop, jungle tunes. An example that comes to mind is the
Bucketheads track "These sounds fall into my mind" - a remix of Chicago's
"Streetplayer" (I was surprised when I found out it was Peter Cetera
on vocals - same dude who sung that cheezy song in that Karate Kid
movie).
ashwin
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