That sample the Ganja Kru has been used by a lot of people. Didn't Rude Bwoy
Monty originally do the d'n'b thing with it back in 94/95, then the Ganja
Kru updated it for the 97 sound. I think De La Soul used it once. Can anyone
elaborate on this?
>
>
> Could anyone identify a track for me? I know so little about this track
that
> it is unlikely that anyone will recognise the one I'm talking about, but
> I'll give it a go.
>
> I heard the track first on a cassette of a soul radio show my sister
> recorded in the mid-eighties. The track itself sounds like it might be
early
> eighties or late seventies.
>
> All I can do to pinpoint the track is to say that 'Gone are the Days' (of
> summer madness) by the Ganja Kru (DJ Hype, Zinc, True Playaz etc. released
> in 1997) was based on it. Although it didn't use the break, there are lots
> of sounds on the Ganja Kru record that were lifted from the tune I'm
after.
> You can actually hear the Ganja Kru record at
> http://hjem.get2net.dk/indajungle/list/gkru_gonedays.htm. Its very good.
>
> Most notably the record I'm after ends with a very distinctive note that
> rises very quickly in pitch. It is very unusual indeed. It featured at the
> start of the Ganja Kru record. I've also heard this sound in the
background
> of a tune on the Badu album 'Baduizm' but I don't know if it was sampled
> from the record I'm after or is just a similar noise.
>
> The only other thing I can say is that the track is an instrumental (or
the
> version I heard was) and has got a very chill sound. It's basically the
> groove and a synthesiser playing over the top. The synthesiser sounds a
> little bit like the ones heard on 'Everybody loves the Sunshine' by Roy
> Ayers (though only a little bit like it). The tune certainly has that kind
> of slow groove.
>
> Does it ring any bells? Probably not. But thanks for thinking about it.
>
> Carl
>
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