Re: VL: AJ Christmas Carols?/latin songs

R. Scott
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:26:45 -0800


I was thinking a jazz/tribal/chant version of "Little Drummer Boy" would be
slammin'. Complete with Jazz horns playing the melody and at least 32 bars
of CRAZY drum fills!!

peace,
R. Scott/West Coast Harem
e-mail: framboise@mindspring.com

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> From: elson trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
> To: Kovalainen Antti <Antti.Kovalainen@hke.fi>; 'Acid Jazz Mailing List'
<acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Subject: Re: VL: AJ Christmas Carols?/latin songs
> Date: Monday, December 22, 1997 3:54 AM
>
> At 10.31 AM 12/22/1997 +0200, Kovalainen Antti wrote:
> >Speed up "We wish you a Merry Christmas", cut out the vocals and add
Eric B &
> >>Rakim's "No Omega" beats ... wonder what that would sound like :)
>
> Actually, I heard this tune today on KCRW-FM here in Los Angeles;
> apparently it was some tripped out Holiday mix
> set to the drum loop from DJ Shadow's "Midnight In a Perfect world" which
> had a whole mess of samples and scratches from old recordings of
Christmas
> tunes (plus 'The Dreidl Song') sung by people like Bing Crosby, various
> choirs, etc. In addition to spoken Christmas-related TV samples from
> sources like Pee Wee Herman, South Park, Beavis & Butt-head and more...I
> wonder if anyone else out there has heard this.
>
> On the D&B Tip, Groove Radio 103.1 is again playing "Jungle Bells" (a
drum
> & bass remix of Frank Sinatra singing 'Jingle Bells' which was made by a
> couple local DJs last year).
>
> Elson