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VA - Droppin Science - Greatest Samples From The Blue Note Lab (Blue Note) Comentários: At least in its presentation, Droppin' Science: Greatest Samples From the Blue Note Lab suggests yet another appeal to hip-hop genealogists, the kind of people who obsess over The-Breaks.com and are diligent readers of Oliver Wang's blog . But this is not your run-of-the-mill "roots of rap" or "best breakbeats" compilation, and not just because you won't find "Impeach the President" (which has been, according to The-Breaks, sampled in 116 different rap songs) or James Brown's "Funky Drummer" (181 songs). A few songs on the album have been tapped for use only once, and more than half of these songs bear relevance solely to the early-'90s conscious-rap movement and groups like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. The people who put together the compilation seem to be aware that the greatest samples often don't come from the greatest song

BAMBOOS, The - I Don't Wanna Stop (Tru Thoughts) Comentários: "Some great new stuff... Killer!" (Mr Scruff)"The funk album of the year" (BBC 6Music)"Most obscenely talented and ubiquitous funkateer in the UK" (Lance Ferguson - One Week to Live)"Incendiary... With the straight-up soul contributions from Kylie Auldist (sounding like Sharon Jones at her best on 'I Don't Wanna Stop') 'Rawville' is arguably the best funk album of the modern era." (I-DJ)"It's a sound you will want to dance around the kitchen to again and again" (The Independent on Sunday)...Just a few of the reactions to previous Bamboos projects on Tru ThoughtsThe Bamboos collaborate to dazzling, deep, funky effect with vocalist extraordinaire and new Tru Thoughts signing Kylie Auldist, on the soulful new single release of "I Don't Wanna Stop".Offering up a different experience to the original album version (on The Bamboos' 2007

VARIOUS - The Third Unheard Connecticut Hip Hop 1979-1983 (Stones Throw) Comentários: Old school hip hop is the stuff of legend. The New York City gangs. A truce or two. Rocking block parties in The Bronx. Two turntables and a shoddy mixer. Young, musical visionaries taking then-contemporary breaks and beats from any funky source material and flipping those precious seconds into something wholly new. Don’t forget the microphone. DJs rapping, rappers probably wishing they could DJ (how backwards that must sound to today’s rap-reared youth!). It wasn’t long until this revolution was committed to wax, and the Sugar Hill Gang’s debut single spurred on releases by countless others. The famous, the not-so-famous and the downright obscure all found ways to testify on twelve inches of vinyl. New York-based labels like Sugar Hill, Enjoy and Peter Brown’s multitude of imprints recorded a chorus of thousands of voices. Contributing to this legend are the snapshots of the fledgling stages of a bu

ALLEN, Tony - Kilode (Waajeed reworks) (Honest Jon's) Comentários: More Tony Allen remixes on the wonderful Honest Jons imprint - this time courtesy of Slum Village and the Platinum Pied Pipers don Waajeed, who re-starts T's tough Afrobeat protest song from scratch. This is jazzy and soulful, percussive and a little bit bruk, with stirring singing by Zaki Ibrahim, sounding not altogether unlike vintage London-style broken beat crossed with a twilight Sade vibe. Very nice indeed. in boomkat [ Para Ouvir/Samples ]

KING TUBBY meets THE UPSETTER - At The Grass Roots Of Dub (Studio 16) Comentários: Having loved this album as a white label for many many years, its really nice to be handling a full reissue of this classic classic dub piece from prime period 1975. Questions have been often raised about its provenance, purporting to be a King Tubby and Upsetter album, in fact only the mixes are theirs in the respective studios – but this minor gripe aside – Winston Edwards and the Natty Dread fashion a true heavyweight set of instrumentals, Tubbys is in ticklers good form, and the Perry tracks have that glorious fuzzy compressed feel and instinctive editing which speaks of heavy runnings at the Black Ark. An album that you can truly run and run indefinitely – in my experience, it never fails. in boomkat [ Para Ouvir/Samples ]

JAMES, Jose - Blackeyedsusan (Brownswood UK) Comentários: West London's IG CULTURE reworks this song from jazz vocalist JOSE JAMES into a killer 4 to the floor dance cut. House beats with a mix of electro carnival and broken beat influences. Funky as all get out. The flip, "IG's BRUK 4 LOVE REMIX", is a straight up broken beat cut. Limited white 12". in groovedis [ Para Ouvir/Samples1 ] [ 2 ]

SPACEK, Steve - I Wanna Piece Of Ur Luv (Jazzy Sport Japan) Comentários: Lush hitech soul tracks; again a cutting edge production with out-there sounds to support the soothing voice from Steve Spacek. The A side comes with the easy 'I Wanna Piece You' as vocal and instrumental mix. The flip has the offbeat 'URUB', co produced by Mark Pritchard with it's high end spaced out strings; also comes as vocal and instrumental. Limited 12 from the japanese Jazzy Sport camp! Tip! in rushhour [ Para Ouvir/Samples ]

RAYTHOUGHT - Raythought EP (Jazzy Sport Japan) Comentários: Hip hop groove from the Japanese scene -- jazz beat centered, bright and bouncy boom bap from Raythought -- featuring production by Grooveman Spot, DJ Juco, Cro-Magnon, DJ Mitsu and others -- trademark stuff from the ever reliable Jazzy Sport crew! Being yanks, we can't speak from a lyrical standpoint, but the beats thump and the keys swirl in that great Jazzy Sport style! Tracks include "In The Silence", "In The House" feat Taishi, "My Mind" feat Hunger, "On The Run", "Beat Gose On", "Fraygular League", feat Full Member, "Black Magic Disco", "Live Ignition" feat Sey, "Don't Stop", "Sun Will Shine" feat Taro Soul & Coma-Chi and more. in dustygroove [ Para Ouvir/Samples ]