I have a new musical crush. (Although it's not new at all, it's at least a decade old, and it's hip hop, so some might say it's not musical.) It's the Digable Planets. Are you all laughing? They've been around forever--where have I been? I got one album today and liked it so much I got another. Is it a coincidence that in these two tracks they sample Tighten Up and an Eddie Harris track? It's all part of the 'Spill ebb and flow.
That's funny, I was just downloading their sample set yesterday. I loved this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtPfMZ6_oQ there was a time when I didn't think there was anything cooler than walking while this was playing in my headphones. It's still cool, actually.
Yeah! I love that Ohio Players sample. Used to have that on a cassette called "greatest funk hits of the 70s." Now there's something that makes me nostalgic--old cassette tapes.
That really takes me back to '94 Steen- freshly roasted coffee, cream cheese muffins, Digable Planets alongside Guru's Jazzmatazz and US3's Hand on the torch in the cafes of downtown Wellington's Cuba street. Funny, I never realised that was Tighten up. The lyric references Byrd's Spaces and Places, too.
Cantaloop was most often on my- um- personal cassette player back then.
I'm just downloading the DP sample set now. Grant Green, Nilpferd! and Herbie Hancock and Eddie Harris. Cantaloop is great. I obviously should have spent more of the 90s watching MTV.
Steen- that's well old skool!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like "Dirty" by St Ettiene - another lost classic.
I guess history has forgotten them, I haven't heard the name since the early 90s, not unlike The Dream Warriors...
Um, I meant "filthy" not "dirty" = oopsy!
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ReplyDeleteThat's funny, I was just downloading their sample set yesterday. I loved this video:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtPfMZ6_oQ
there was a time when I didn't think there was anything cooler than walking while this was playing in my headphones. It's still cool, actually.
Yeah! I love that Ohio Players sample. Used to have that on a cassette called "greatest funk hits of the 70s." Now there's something that makes me nostalgic--old cassette tapes.
ReplyDeleteThat really takes me back to '94 Steen- freshly roasted coffee, cream cheese muffins, Digable Planets alongside Guru's Jazzmatazz and US3's Hand on the torch in the cafes of downtown Wellington's Cuba street.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I never realised that was Tighten up. The lyric references Byrd's Spaces and Places, too.
Cantaloop was most often on my- um- personal cassette player back then.
I'm just downloading the DP sample set now. Grant Green, Nilpferd! and Herbie Hancock and Eddie Harris. Cantaloop is great. I obviously should have spent more of the 90s watching MTV.
ReplyDeleteI'm listening to the first album, it really is great.
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