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Finally a great remix of this already great tune. Only thing really annoying was the typical U S of A EDM crap synth line that no one in europe wants to hear. Here’s the original. This hears fresh and worthy of the Lazer and Sean Paul is back to his fitness, minus the cheesiness of his post 2005 efforts. This remix is perfect! Enjoy it in all its deliciousness.
Jurassic 5 always valued quality samples instead of shit replayed synth melodies out of a can. And finally they honor the amazing works of Jack White and the White Stripes. And rightfully so – a good match for music in general at this point in musical history and a great contrast to all that crap thats blowing out all those shit speakers everywhere (whatever happened to those booming speakers?), simply some soulful music. And i remember making a classic YUM YUM remix incorporating the same sample in 2005. Like i said to many of my dj colleagues – that whole YUM YUM Sound and vibe is being reborn right now. Positive music and an overall good vibe – between performers, djs and the audience.
After hearing that new Jurassic 5 tune, this suddenly popped into my mind. I should update it a bit. After hearing it today, i remembered how much i actually liked this song.
Gwen & Pharrel were the bomb. And that whole White Stripes sound and their unique sound aesthetics put that whole thing on another level. Not bigging up my work. It’s almost non-existent, but both songs comliment each other very well and that’s what a good mix is about.
“I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren’t getting it on the radio.”
John Oates
I listened to some “Hip Hop” on the radio yesterday and i actually never ever listen to the radio, not even in the car – and not saying that i don’t like it, but to say it in the immortal words of Chappell’s Prince impersonation “It bores me…”. Whether they are trying to be educational about the latest trends (underground radio) or they are trying to be funny and/or “informative” (main stream radio) it just annoys me that the main focus has been lost and most radio shows/hosts stations are being “secretly” demanding. Somehow along the way radio forgot what it’ about – and that is music. Music with a certain mood, a certain feeling, a certain appeal. Most songs these days are commercials, thats why you hear them in commercials. Why did it get this way? …just follow the money. So when i heard these two kids talk on their show about hip hop and lyrics and the sample culture that has been spread, promoted and made acceptable through Hip Hop, they caught my attention. I was in the mood for exactly what they were talking about and it did sound promising – no matter if new or old. It took them three songs, and i was being patient, for me to turn off the radio. It was everything but what they had talked about, not knocking any of the new stuff – just saying not even the quality tunes of today are getting the spotlight they deserve. And in my mind i remembered a few songs that could have fit that description, so i put them together in this playlist, for you to hear.
These songs are some memorable random picks going down Memory Lane, that i vividly recall spinning. All from the mid 90ies and certainly some masterpieces and classics to match. These song didn’t have the prime time radio, net and tv promo that these new Hip Hop songs have, but somehow they survived the times, just strongly proving their quality and class.
Except the Freestyle Fellowship tune, i still have all these on vinyl as 12″s and i think if you are in the mood for some laid back smooth Hip Hop these are random picks to guarantee you a quality hour of music. There are tons more that i could have chosen, but like i said random picks going through my mental record collection. Enjoy this little trip down memory lane.
If you take a look at trees sliced into cross sections every Vinyl fan will realise the similarity. You can read a trees whole life in the rings as you can hear the sound of a Vinyl record with its rings. So this could lead you to the next question: What would it sound like if we played a tree trunk on a turntable?
Musicians—or, more accurately, sound artist—Bartholomäus Traubeck found the answer. After engineering a record player that could actually withstand playing a cross-sectional piece of wood, he filtered the input through Ableton Live, which interpreted the data into a piano track. He captured the entire thing using a Playstation Eye Camera, using a stepper motor to power the turntable’s arm.
The result? A track called “Years,” which lands somewhere in between neo-classical genius and a horror film’s score. And i think the song’s maker can explain it in the best way:
“On regular vinyl, there is this groove that represents however long the track is. There’s a physical representation of the length of the audio track that’s imprinted on the record,” he says. “The year rings are very similar, because it takes a very long time to actually grow this structure because it depends on which record you put on of those I made. It’s usually 30 to 60 or 70 years in that amount of space. It was really interesting for me to have this visual representation of time and then translate it back into a song which it wouldn’t originally be.”
Listen to it for yourself—it’s the sounds of natural history, maaan.
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.