Derek's Daily 45. Chanceswithwolves. Vinyl Rip Blogs. (REVEAL YOUR SAMPLE STASH SPOTS!) Also, when you hear an mp3 or a youtube video that you just have to chop up right then and there, it's only an extra few steps to find the original vinyl or cd and go back and swap out the mp3 later with a better quality copy. what's important was you made the beat when you first heard the song that inspired you, while you were inspired. that's the beauty of mp3's to an og like myself i don't know about the synth type hip-hop and if you can get away with sampling mp3s of already digital source material. but i sample 99% 70's music and i find that 99% of the meat of that sound has to do with it being made in the 70's and the way it was recorded and the equipment of those times and so on plus, it's fun hunting down originals of samples that you've already made certified bangers out of. it's a different kind of rush!
Funk My Soul. Allen Toussaint – 1975 -Southern Nights Damn great work from Allen Toussaint – a record that was cut at a time when he’d really made his way into the mainstream of American music, yet could still come across with a hard New Orleans groove!
The title cut, “Southern Nights“, is a perfect illustration of this fact – as it was written by Toussaint, but became a big hit for Glen Campbell, who recorded a very soppy version of the number. Yet here, Allen turns it into a weird trippy tune – produced with great Sansu production, and backing by New Orleans legends like Leo Nocentelli, George Porter, and Art Neville – all of whom help the tune bristle with new energy, and a really sinister groove.