quoted 1 line ===== Original Message From Josh Davison <yoshi@enteract.com> =====
>===== Original Message From Josh Davison <yoshi@enteract.com> =====quoted 3 lines recently i've scored excellent breaks from a variety of records that
>recently i've scored excellent breaks from a variety of records that
>nobody else would touch ... some live elvis stuff, Deodato, weather
>report, lou rawls...
FWIW, I've heard plenty of people using breaks off Deodato records, including
on chart topping singles here in New Zealand, so I'd dispute that his stuff
fits the category of breaks "nobody else would touch".
In fact, Deodato gets widely sampled full stop among "nu jazz" folks (ie.
recent acid jazz re-branded, like most of the stuff on Compost).
As for caring whether a break is played out.. I empathise, and normally shy
away from stuff I've heard done to death, but also find that at some point I
have to stop caring about that kind of thing. I reckon ultimately it's
second-guessing my intended audience's reaction, and I can't claim to know
what people will actually think. The number of fans of eg. Squarepusher's
'Hard Normal Daddy' suggests that a lot of people don't care how thrashed a
beat is, providing you mess with it.
Mr Self-conscious Post-Modern Guy (normally referred to as Luke Vibert ;-) did
a great thing with 'Filthy Drummer', a Wagon Christ tune where he subtly
mucks with the funky drummer break, bringing in fills and nuances, and then
suddenly swings the whole damn beat. I love that, precisely because it's a
beat everyone knows, it sounds like it's running straight in the way you
expect, and then WHAM it makes my head fall off. He caps it off with some
mock-JB vocal snippets going "ain't it filthy", where the original track has
him saying "ain't it funky". I was sufficiently excited first time I heard it
that I laughed out loud.
Michael
np. Remote Viewer
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