Jake One???s 10 Favorite Sample Flips!
Big_Chan
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Shout out to the homie Mao and Ego Trip. This is great....
http://www.egotripland.com/jake-one???s-10-favorite-sample-flips/
http://www.egotripland.com/jake-one???s-10-favorite-sample-flips/
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daaamn! didnt even know. proppppppppppppps.
Pharrel does this a lot... going back to the what-you-can't-clear thing, there's tracks* where you can hear that it had originally been a sample, couldn't get the clearance, so he went back and played it, and it no longer sounds identical to the sample, but familiar enough that a hip-hop head will be like whut? Unfortunately for my ears, his replays have that modern, synthetic plastic sound compared to the originals, but in a way, he's putting his own feel on it, and one day lo-fi will go out of fashion and maybe over-produced shiny kits will be the sh*t.
I'm loving this series btw. Great read.
* from the solo LP my gf loves. Walk Into The Sun? Lots of topless videos. I dunno. I hear it in the car a lot. And there's a track that sounds like Cramp Your Style, but, he must have chopped the hell out of Cramp Your Style, still got told he can't clear it, so interpolated his chop. I rate that, even if I don't really like the end product that much.
No, I was just trying to name a track from the album as I can't even remember that! Not really helping much.
Maybe I'll go home and have a listen to the track I'm thinking of tonight. There's plenty of moments that (to my ears) make me think that he's interpolating chops rather than straight loops... but I guess those would be hard to argue with any certainty.
Would be interested in an interview with Pharrel to find out how much, if any, of those tracks had been based around samples or not.
Maybe I'm just hearing sh*t!
I remember reading that they'd chop stuff up and replay it, but a lot of it sounds like someone pissing around on a keyboard workstation.