Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill

I’m not sure how I discovered the Beastie Boys. I think one of all the music video shows that were on one of the two channels we had at the time showed She’s Crafty a few times. I might have recorded it.

At school, I was in 7th or 8th grade, I entered a Coca-Cola sponsored air guitar contest. We were only three contestants, and I received the bronze medal. It was a Coca-Cola hat.

Ludvig and Kalle, the number one and two, did a more heavy metal / Svullo / funny guy thing. I was dead serious and my main track was No Sleep Till Brooklyn and I guess She’s Crafty and Fight for your right were in there as well.

I got it on vinyl and today most intros are ruined by all the scratching I did with this one. This record clearly brought me into the hiphop-world. Before this I was listening to Depeche Mode, Prince, some cheezy dance music, Duran Duran and stuff like that. After this one, I started buying other artists on Def Jam and also more of the De La Soul-style of hiphop. I’m a huge fan of 90′s hiphop and especially the Beastie Boys.

A few years later, So Watcha Want, especially the Soul Assassin remix, were played at all the prepartys and obviously Sabotage did some carnage at a lot of school partys. And so on. The videos, not only the Spike Jonze ones, has been favourites, and the fact that they stayed relevant all the way is really cool. I saw them live only once, in the Globe Arena on the Hello Nasty tour in 99 (?). It was great.

I even love the album The Mix Up.

And as with all great bands and artists, I still discover new fave tunes. Right now Looking down the barrel of a gun does it to me.

I love them. Sad to see MCA leave this life way too early.

A Tribe Called Quest – Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

I’m in a Facebook-group that’s called Playlist of the week where we every week get a theme from the sheriff and then you can only post one tune a day on that theme. I love it and this week the theme was fantastic. A tune from albums that changed your life. And you had to put a little story to back it up. There has been some fantastic stories and I hope we can collect those and put them for everyone to see.

I’ll put my records and stories here, starting with this. I can’t just do albums, so it has to be records that changed my life.

My first post was Description of a fool, from A Tribe Called Quests People Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. I discovered them by listening to Q-tip on De La Souls Buddy and bought the album. It wasn’t that easy to get into, but it stuck. I kept it in the CD-player for almost six months (I had a player with two slots). I woke up to it (my system had a wake up function), I listened to it after school, and I fell asleep to it.

Before this album, I read magazines about all my favourite artists, I read everything about them. But not this time. It didn’t matter. I just wanted to listen to the music. I might even have a hard time today listing all the tracks in the right order. I didn’t care what the tunes were called.

And it’s not even their best album.

But it was completely fresh sounding. Nothing sounded like that, noone hade lyrics like that. The beats. Everything was fresh. Two of the three major hits, Can I kick it & I left my wallet in El Segundo, were a bit on the funny tip, while Bonita Applebum might still be my best track. Alongside Description of a fool.

I still listen to A Tribe Called Quest a lot today and I even did a playlist on Spotify with tunes they have sampled.

The Coca-Cola remix competition in Sweden

Here are the three finalists in the remix competition in Sweden:

Here are the ones that didn’t make it:

Here are more about the competition and you can vote on the three finalists (in swedish).

Old school hiphop

Sampled by, part 1

 Foto: Anders Dahnielsson (CC BY NC SA)

Yesterday I watched this documentary on how sampling changed the music industry. It wasn’t a great doc, but it featured guys like the original funky drummer, George Clinton, Chuck D, Q-bert and others. No DJ Shadow, which was a bit strange.

Anyway, here’s a list of some great tunes that has been sampled and turned into even greater songs. It’s mostly songs sampled by some of my favourite artists, but some are there just because the surprise effect. Enjoy!

Sampled by, part 1 – Spotify

Tracklist:
Lowrell – Mellow Mellow (Right On)
Steely Dan – Kid Charlemagne
Minnie Riperton – Baby, This Love I Have
The Staple Singers – Let’s Do It Again
Quincy Jones – Summer In The City
Luther Vandross – Don’t You Know That?
Ronnie Foster – Mystic Brew
Jackson 5 – Maybe Tomorrow
Bob James – Take Me To The Mardi Gras
Incredible Bongo Band – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
The Clash – The Guns Of Brixton
David McCallum – The Edge
Charmels – As Long As I’ve Got You
Chicago – Street Player – Remastered LP Version
Billy Cobham – Stratus
The Clash – Straight To Hell
Rene & Angela – I Love You More
Bob James – Shamboozie
William Bell – Private Number – Single Version
Leon Haywood – I Want’a Do Something Freaky To You
David Axelrod – The Human Abstract
Mahavishnu Orchestra;John McLaughlin – Planetary Citizen
The Chambers Brothers – Funky

And here is the tunes that have sampled the above. Except for Check The Rhime with A Tribe Called Quest. I guess some label or publisher don’t want anyone listening to it or make anymore money off of it.

Massive Attack – Lately
Kanye West – Champion
Ice Cube – It Was A Good Day (Remix)
The Pharcyde – Passing Me By
Petter – Vinden har vänt
A Tribe Called Quest – Electric Relaxation
Ghostface Killah – All That I Got Is You (featuring Tekitha)
RUN-DMC – Peter Piper
Nas – Thief’s Theme – Explicit Album Version
Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me
Dr. Dre – The Next Episode – Explicit Version
Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
Kenny Dope – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)
Massive Attack – Safe From Harm
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Low Motion Disco – Love Love Love
Rakim – Guess Who’s Back
Timbuktu – Jag drar
Dr. Dre – Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang
David Axelrod – The Human Abstract
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
A Tribe Called Quest – I Left My Wallet In El Segundo

Here’s a great site if you want to find out whos sampled who: Whosampled.com

Jose Padilla – Balearikus Electronikus II

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Lindstrom – Other Peoples Poetry Mix

Norwegian disco master Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has recorded a balearic mix for his brothers daily walks in the cloud.

Including a track from Ralph Lundsten!

Other People’s Poetry Tracklist
1. rustie – glass swords
2. blondes – amber (variations in CM by Rene Hell)
3. isao tomita – gardens in the rain (estampes no3)
4. wendy carlos – ending titles
5. m83 – another wave from you
6. isao tomita – clair the lune (suite bergamasque no3)
7. ralph lundsten – spaceflower dance
8 . blanck mass – what you know
9 terry riley – a rainbow in curved air

Greg Wilsons Early 80′s floorfillers – January 1982

This is so wonderful. The music is just amazing! And it’s just one month of 1982!

Complete tracklist and sleeve notes can be found here.

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