Re: Amen my brother - old sampling

From: Steve Catanzaro (stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 21:26:36 MET DST

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Manire, Aaron D <amanire@indiana.edu>
    To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 11:39 AM
    Subject: RE: Amen my brother - old sampling

    > Wouldn't that make it a 1 Khz tone?
    >
    > adario
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > ...
    > impossible to play by human hands, and hence use the technology in a
    useful
    > way, kind of like that 1000bpm moby track( anyone else hear him play it at
    > ultraworld last thnaksgiving btw?) .
    >
    > christopherotto
    >
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: Pedro Cevallos <pedro_cevallos@hotmail.com>
    > To: <dchapman@ucla.edu>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 2:58 PM
    > Subject: Re: Amen my brother
    >
    >
    > > >Slightly off topic, but I'm assisting in teaching a course on
    >electronic
    > > >dance music at UCLA, and I'm doing a talk on >breakbeat/drum and bass.
    > >
    > >
    > > That's awesome! I would love to take/teach such a class...
    > > How about these course offerings:
    > >
    > > Evolution of electronic music
    > > A survey history of breakbeats
    > > Introduction to Hip Hop
    > > The recontextualization of African Music and it's implications
    > > DNB 101
    > > Sampling, copyright law, art and you
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > >I would really like to get hold of the Winstons' "Amen my Brother," >in
    > > >order to show the class the initial context for that rather >ubiquitous
    > > >breakbeat. I just lost a bidding war on eBay and I'm >looking for
    other
    > > >ways of getting hold of this track. Anyone have >any ideas?
    > >
    > >
    > > Fuck E-Bay Dale! Try this:
    > >
    > > http://www.dustygroove.com/ultimate.htm
    > >
    > > Ultimate Breaks and Beats -- Volume 1 . . . LP . . . $8.99
    > > Monkees "Mary Mary"* / Bad Bascomb "Black Grass"* / The Winstons "Amen
    > > Brother"* / 7th Wonder "Daisy Lady" / D.C. Larue "Indiscreet" / Rufus
    > Thomas
    > > "Do The Funky Penguin"
    > >
    > >
    > > and while you're at it, I think it might be wise to also play for your
    > > students Lyn Collins' "Think" followed by DJ EZ Rock & Rob Base's "It
    > takes
    > > two" and then the tons of dnb songs that sample the breakdown, the
    shaker,
    > > the "You Bad Sistah!" James Brown scream, etc, etc, etc...:
    > >
    > > http://www.dustygroove.com/ultimate.htm
    > >
    > > Ultimate Breaks and Beats -- Volume 16 . . . LP . . . $8.99
    > > Commodores "The Assembly Line" / Johnny Jenkins "I Walk On Guilded
    > > Splinters" / Le Pamplemousse "Gimme What You
    > > Got"* / Marvin Gaye "T Plays It Cool" / Lyn Collins "Think"* / The
    > Galactic
    > > Force Band "Space Dust"* / Steve Miller Band "Take The Money And Run"
    > >
    > >
    > > Inevitably if you're talking about classic breaks you have to bring in
    > > "Apache" by the Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band:
    > >
    > > http://www.dustygroove.com/ultimate.htm
    > >
    > > Ultimate Breaks and Beats -- Volume 3 . . . LP . . . $8.99
    > > Cheryl Lynn "Got To Be Real" / Incredible Bongo Band "Apache" / Herman
    > Kelly
    > > & Life "Dance To The Drummers Beat" /
    > > Incredible Bongo Band "Bongo Rock"* / UPP "Give It To You" / Jackie
    > Robinson
    > > "Pussy Footer"*
    > >
    > >
    > > Probably the most obvious example of sampling your students can relate
    to
    > is
    > > if you play for them Bob James' "Take me to the Mardi Gras" followed by
    > Run
    > > DMC's "Peter Piper". I think they've probably heard the Run DMC and can
    > > relate.
    > >
    > > http://www.dustygroove.com/warehous12in.htm
    > >
    > > Bob James -- Mardigras/Nautilus (12" single) . . . 12-inch . . . 5.99
    > >
    > >
    > > BTW, I don't work for dustygroove but they are a great store! :)
    > >
    > >
    > > Amen brother indeed! ;)
    > >
    > >
    > > Pedro Cevallos
    > > --
    > > "...the world is a comedy to those who think and
    > > a tragedy to those who feel..."
    > > -- Horace Walpole --
    > > http://www.geocities.com/mr_cevallos/
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