please help: ODB-related party break / dj tool ID
james
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What's up, soulstrut--you're looking good. Is that a new shirt? Word, I thought so. Very bold.
So, hey, I'm trying to find the name of this mid- to late-nineties record that I'm thinking was some kind of party break record or dj tool or something; it consisted entirely of Ol' Dirty Bastard's moans, groans, bellows, etc., culled from all his various appearances. So, it was like "AaaaaaUUUUGggggHHHH / oooooOOOOOOOOHHHhhhhhhAAAwww / HHHHeeeeeeYYYY / UUUUuuurrrrRRRRGGGggghhh" and so on, for several minutes on end. A beat may have kicked in at some point, but maybe not. I know that doesn't look real good on the page, but you'll have to trust me that it was magnetic in its way. The closest analogue I can think of is that record that DJ Premier used to use all the time that was like a solid minute of "Ha!"s sampled from various rap records (RUN-DMC, Melle Mel, etc.). And I feel like there was a similar record that was all "Good!"s, too.
Anyway, the ODB thing was playing in the background of some funky boutique establishment while my girlfriend was trying on a fairly spectacular pair of shoes during my very first visit to Chicago many years ago, so I have some nostalgia for it, and would love to know what it was.
Thanks.
james
So, hey, I'm trying to find the name of this mid- to late-nineties record that I'm thinking was some kind of party break record or dj tool or something; it consisted entirely of Ol' Dirty Bastard's moans, groans, bellows, etc., culled from all his various appearances. So, it was like "AaaaaaUUUUGggggHHHH / oooooOOOOOOOOHHHhhhhhhAAAwww / HHHHeeeeeeYYYY / UUUUuuurrrrRRRRGGGggghhh" and so on, for several minutes on end. A beat may have kicked in at some point, but maybe not. I know that doesn't look real good on the page, but you'll have to trust me that it was magnetic in its way. The closest analogue I can think of is that record that DJ Premier used to use all the time that was like a solid minute of "Ha!"s sampled from various rap records (RUN-DMC, Melle Mel, etc.). And I feel like there was a similar record that was all "Good!"s, too.
Anyway, the ODB thing was playing in the background of some funky boutique establishment while my girlfriend was trying on a fairly spectacular pair of shoes during my very first visit to Chicago many years ago, so I have some nostalgia for it, and would love to know what it was.
Thanks.
james
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i think it was a mr. dibbs record. unearthed 1 or 2
I'm always freaked out when a battle record is played straight through
Again, I can't remember whether or not a beat eventually came in, but all the vocal pieces were sequenced in a way that gave the whole thing real rhythm, and it went on for a long-ass time. On the one hand it kinda had a rowdy, Crooklyn Clan, we-don't-give-a-fuck feel to it, but on the other hand it was pretty thorough and obviously took a minute to put together, so I could also see it being some bedroom dj's labor of love. Tough call.
A few years back I was playing my man some of those Crazy Wisdom Masters / Jungle Brother outtakes, and he said it sounded like they were just letting a battle record run and then rapping over it. Back then, that constituted a diss, but today, I don't know--it kinda feels like an idea whose time has come, you know? A somnambulant Lil' B in dialogue with a circa-1995 scratch sentence? Come on, son--shit would be money in the bank. Someone needs to make it happen and get that Boomkat Paypal like it was 2009.
The Dibbs thing doesn't go on for more than 20 seconds, but I'm thinking you could've been hearing one of his sets. Although some drums or drum-sounding something should've come on. They always do. Don't they?
Now I want to hear it. I've concocted a version of it in my mind.
Yeah, I thought about it being one of his sets (and didn't Mix Master Mike used to have a little ODB thing he did, too? Or was that later?), but this was pretty crisp, and despite its overall funk it didn't really have that telltale Cincy nasty. To give you some context: This was a hipster boutique in mid-/late nineties Chicago, and the track in question was most likely functioning as an abstract-ish cool-out segue between some Propellerheads type bullshit and the previous year's drum-and-bass no-namer.
I always liked to imagine that the Dizzee shit was a tip of the bowler hat to JMJ's fuck-up in "Live At The Funhouse" (perhaps my second-favorite on-record fuck-up, right after the whole "Top Billin'" beat) but dude was hella young and sampling ringtones and shit, and I'm pretty sure he didn't really have it like that. As far as next-level "Big Beat"-related I-don't-give-a-fuckness, see also the aforementioned Jungle Brothers, who somehwere on that milk-carton third lp of theirs sample the part without the drums (just that first long "IIIIIIIIII").
Man, this thread kinda has me wanting to go pull out some shit. Pour a modest snifter of something and reminisce whilst listening to Litterthugz scratch tracks and gazing absently into the middle distance. In my bubble-goose smoking jacket on some "Ahh, this stuff indubitably is fresh."
Did you make it out to their reunion show next Tuesday? It was incredible.
Isn't that on "40 Below Trooper"? Or am I tripping on that?
I'm no help here, but I definitely remember hearing it a couple times, don't think I've ever owned it. I went through my Dibbs records (any body got any word on his health? is he doing better?), although I don't have any of the unearthed it wasn't on any of the other ones I have. But man this is annoying me, I think I remember it on something from Dibbs, but when I first saw this thread I immediately though some Mixmaster Mike or some skratch pickles shit, and still kind of think it's buried in something that direction. Maybe I'll kick off the new year going through battle records... I am really starting to appreciate these things.
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I hear Mike2600 is mad soft now, though. All doughy on gravy fries and whatnot, super-sized off that Burlesque cheddar. The next time I see him in the parking garage I'm gonna step to him in the manner of a young Wesley Snipes: "You ain't down! You ain't bad!" We'll see whussup.
That sounds right. I remember poring over the cd booklet in my mom's car on the way home from Record Bar; seeing The Stooges in the sample credits had me kinda sweating.
For what it's worth, in my initial investigation after Tom and Duke came through with the leads (thanks, dudes!), I came upon some low-level controversy on some bygone messageboard where some dudes were saying that the ingredients of Mike's ODB routine were on that Beastie Show Breaks record, but then some other dudes were pointing out that Mike apparently lifted several things off that record from Unearthed 2.
All of which is just to say that if what I'm thinking of is not the Dibbs thing (and I don't think it is), then I don't think it's the Mike thing either.
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Dang, I'm pretty sure I've thought more about scratch records in the course of this thread than in the last ten years put together.
Well, what you're looking for is definitely not on this. But I don't think that's what they were talking about.