{"id":2755,"date":"2012-05-06T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T21:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2012-06-01T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:12:23","slug":"beastie-boys-prime-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"Beastie Boys – Prime Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>\"Example\"<\/strong>
\nThe Samplers – Beastie Boys<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"Example\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sampled – clockwise from top left – Johnny Hammond Smith, Norman Whitfield,<\/strong>
\n Jimmy Smith, The Commodores, Jeremy Steig<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download Johnny Hammond Smith – Big Sur Suite <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Original release – Higher Ground LP (Kudu 1974) – Sampled on Pass the Mic (Check Your Head LP 1992)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download Commodores – Machine Gun <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Original Release – Machine Gun LP (Motown 1974) – Sampled on Hey Ladies (Paul’s Boutique LP 1989)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download Jeremy Steig – Howling For Judy <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Original Release – Legwork LP (Solid State 1969) – Sampled on Sure Shot (Ill Communication LP 1994)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download Jimmy Smith – I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More Babe <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Original Release – Blacksmith LP (Pride 1974) – Sampled on Professor Booty (Check Your Head LP 1992)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download Norman Whitfield\/Rose Royce – Yo Yo <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Original Release – Car Wash OST (MCA 1976) – Sampled On Shake Your Rump (Paul’s Boutique LP 1989)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download Afrique – Kissing My Love <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Original Release – Soul Makossa LP (Mainstream 1973) – Sampled on Bodhisattva Vow (Ill Communication LP 1994)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greetings all.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to another week here at the Corners du Fonque\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

As has been mentioned several times recently most of what you\u2019ve been reading here in the last few weeks was \u2013 due to necessity<\/em> \u2013 prepared a few weeks in advance so as to facilitate the massive amount of commuting and other life-disrupting activities involved in my wife\u2019s treatment (which, now that I mention it seems to be going well, so let\u2019s keep those fingers crossed<\/em>).<\/p>\n

This weekend has been especially tiring, but the news of the passing of the mighty MCA, Adam Yauch<\/strong> could not be ignored, so as soon as we got home and rolled out of the Funky16Corners-mobile, I rolled into the record vault and got to work.<\/p>\n

I have listened to hip hop, first passively (way back in the day) and then as a lightweight consumer with a focus therein on what I would consider dynamic use of sampled material.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t really talk about that aspect of the game without giving props to the Beastie Boys.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the years the Beasties have played a big part in piqueing my interest in samples and by association the sounds sampled (why else would I have owned a copy of Alphonse Mouzon\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Funky Snakefoot\u2019) long before I was spinning (or writing about) funk, soul, jazz and rare groove.<\/p>\n

Sampling\/cut and paste is an art in which it\u2019s not terribly difficult to separate the lazy slobs from the masters, i.e. being able to differentiate from someone who can lift a song wholesale and slap something new on it and someone who can hear a really interesting sound within another piece of music and re-purpose it in a way that makes your ears (and brain<\/em>) perk up in admiration.<\/p>\n

One of the dangers of trainspotting is that the listener runs the risk of getting lost in the component parts, losing sight of the forest for the digitally borrowed trees.<\/p>\n

However, secure in the knowledge that good taste is sometimes its own reward, the best samples sound as good (or better) in their original form as they do when placed as a cog in another \u2018machine\u2019. Often (not always, obviously<\/em>) groovy bits of sound are not sui generis, and are traceable back to an equally groovy \u201cwhole\u201d, which is the case in the music I bring you today.<\/p>\n

I like to think that the first time I had my mind blown by \u2018Paul\u2019s Boutique\u2019 or \u2018Check Your Head\u2019 my crates (and ears) were deep enough that I recognized some of the coolest stuff, but at the same time I\u2019m honest enough to admit that the ensuing years witnessed my recognition of some of that music for the first time (like the time my man Marshall<\/strong> down in DC dropped Jimmy Smith\u2019s<\/strong> previously unknown \u2013 to me \u2013 version of \u2018I\u2019m Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More Babe\u2019 and the light bulb went off over my head).<\/p>\n

It was in those moments of recognition that new digging targets were registered and I followed them into flea markets, record stores on onto the interwebs.<\/p>\n

The cuts I bring you today are examples of some of my favorite Beastie Boys samples (drums, bass and guitar) out of my crates.<\/p>\n

Some of them were things I already had, others, like the bass in \u2018Big Sur Suite\u2019 and \u2018Yo Yo\u2019 or the guitar in \u2018Machine Gun\u2019, I picked up first and discovered\/recognized the sample(s) after the fact.<\/p>\n

What all of them have in common, aside from the fact that they appealed to the Beasties, is that they are all worth listening to in their entirety.<\/p>\n

Maybe some of you will be hearing the complete songs for the first time.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig them all, and I\u2019ll see you later in the week.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAlso, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).
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<\/strong>\"Example\"<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"Example\"<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Samplers – Beastie Boys The Sampled – clockwise from top left – Johnny Hammond Smith, Norman Whitfield, Jimmy Smith, The Commodores, Jeremy Steig Listen\/Download Johnny Hammond Smith – Big Sur Suite Original release – Higher Ground LP (Kudu 1974) – Sampled on Pass the Mic (Check Your Head LP 1992) ___________________________________________________________________ Listen\/Download Commodores – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,58,46,11,14,68,103,66,49,30,76,69,102,12,13,56],"tags":[163,166,27,164,165],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beastie-boys","category-cover-songs","category-digging","category-funk","category-funky16corners","category-hammond-grooves","category-hip-hop","category-instrumental","category-jazz-funk","category-lp-tracks","category-norman-whitfield","category-original-versions","category-samples","category-soul","category-soul-jazz","category-soundtrack","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-hammond-organ","tag-soul","tag-soul-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-Ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}