Need Help With Stax Breaks
darksunrider
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Just got lucky enough to be able to utilize the whole stax catalog..I know that this is a far fetched hope but does anyone out there, have a list of joints from that label..One hand washes the other help me out and Ill do the same in return..Peace to all the Strutters out there..One Ultraman... 
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Post of the year.
b/w
Approached you with what idea? You make tracks with samples of Stax multi track sessions and then sell the joints to rappers? Then you split the points and publishing with Stax/Concorde? They must be in it to get some loot. I really don't see them just looking out and sending you masters.
Dark Sun Riders album was incredible IMO.
Good luck with this project.
William Bell - Gettin What You Want
Booker T & The MGs - Time Is Tight
Booker T & the MGs - Fuquawi
Booker T & The MGs - Soul Limbo
Booker T & the MGs - Hang Em High
Booker T & The MGs - Melting Pot
Judy Clay & William Bell - Private Number
The Emotions - So I Can Love You
Eddie Floyd - Blood Is Thicker Than Water
Eddie Floyd - Why Is The Wine Sweeter
Eddie Floyd - Laurie
Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
Isaac Hayes - Cafe Regios
Isaac Hayes - Theme From The Men
Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye
Frederick Knight - Friend
Jean Knight - You Think You're Hot Stuff
Jean Knight - Mr Big Stuff
Little Milton - Sweet Woman Of Mine
Little Milton - Rainy Day
Mel & Tim - Starting All Over Again
Soul Children - Love Makes It Right
Staple Singers - Love Is Plentiful
Staple Singers - This World
Staple Singers - Touch A Hand Make A Friend
Staple Singers - This World
Staple Singers - My main Man
Staple Singers - Respect Yourself
Staple Singers - I'll Take You there
Staple Singers - That's What Friends Are For
Staple Singers - Long Walk To DC
Johnnie Taylor - I Could Never Be President
Johnnie Taylor - It's September
Johnnie Taylor - I Believe In You
Johnnie taylor - Take care Of Your Homework
Johnnie taylor - Cheaper To Keep Her
Carla Thomas - The Time For Love Is Anytime
Carla Thomas - Where Do I Go
Rufus Thomas - Boogie Ain't Nuttin'
Rufus Thomas - Do The Double Bump
Rufus Thomas - Do The Funky Chicken
Why not? GET THAT MONEY!
Co-sign. It's not likely there's much unreleased material left on Stax given how extensively they've been box-set and comped...could be some b-sides that haven't gotten much shine however.
Personally, the "use multi-track session tapes to make remixes" leaves me a bit ambivalent. I think it can create some fun projects - see the Motown series for example - but I'm equally of a mind of, "don't mess with a good thing." That said, there's some good remix potential for someone so inclined and who has the skills to pull it off right.
im gonna go ahead and co-sign on that.
charlene and the soul children-love changes
is my jam right now.
that
and prince conley- I'm going home
That said, I'm pretty certain that the Stax material has all been transferred to 24-it multitrack so you should be good.
have they really? thats very strange. a friend of mine does some work recording new artists for them.
I have a ton of those stax multitracks. Any respectable digger should know whats hot on stax so id reccomend the op do a little homework first. Im not gonna throw the boz at you completely but i mean come on.
That said, going through the multitracks to sample can be a bit overwhelming. Best use of em ive heard so far is the track jake did for freeway, which was out of control hot.
But basicly the label is very keen on having these available to alot of producers and id expect to see alot of other old labels following suit.
Eventually i believe you will be able to get multitracks for just about anything off itunes and shit. Its really only a matter of time at this point.
If so thats awesome!
not to be uppity but i have to cosine this...
looks like the strut done gone and went soft on a newbie with a digging 101 question
But if this is Ultraman from Dark Sun Riders then it'd be nice to think the Strut would know better than to treat them like a 15 year old who just got into digging.
there are only 3, I believe, B-sides, total, over the course of the 3 singles box sets...those box sets are a-sides only. Also, they do not include non-US exclusive singles(ie the French only Johnnie Taylor "Blues in the Night"), nor the sides of singles that had different flips(ie Wendy Rene "After Laughter" has 2 releases, with different flips)...the box sets are in no way complete...the first one even omits a couple dumb-rare volt releases (Sir Issac and the Doo-Dads for example)
Which sorta makes sense for the second and third boxes...Stax diversified in so many areas by then that it wouldn't sound right to have, say, Isaac Hayes followed up by, say, Lena Zavaroni or some country singer, so a lot of the non-soul stuff had to go.
But then again, there is a Carla Thomas 45 from 1970 that didn't make it (this single sucks, BTW, but STILL), and I don't think the Round Robin Monopoly was included on box #3 (does someone else have the rights? are they a white rock band who just happened to lean towards funk?).
I was once talking about that first box with Billy from Norton Records, and he was pissed that it didn't include any of Stax's stupid-rare rockabilly sides like Don Willis' "Warrior Sam" (back when Stax was still called Satellite).
Anyway, as far as the Stax thing goes, if you've got access to the parts, I'd be interested to see what could be done with parts of more well-known joints. Like, get busy with "The Breakdown" or something, see if you can take a sample that couldn't be isolated off the record and do something ill with it. But that's just me.