Two absolute classics. Great example of how Dance music travelled from America to England and got its own flavour.

• CeCe Rogers – Someday
• Liquid – Sweet Harmony

• Grover Washington Jr – Just The Two Of Us
• Tiro de Gracia – El Juego Verdadero

• The Meters – Handclapping Song
• CMC and Silenta – Clap Your Daft Punk

https://ghettofunk.bandcamp.com/track/cmc-silenta-clap-your-daft-punk

One more Cassius Tuesday.

• Gwen McCrae – “All This Love That I’m Giving”
• Cassius – Feeling For You (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix)

Another Cassius Tuesday, RIP Zdar.

• Sandra Richardson – I Feel A Song (In My Heart)
• Cassius – I Love You So

This is the first Cassius tune I heard and, even at the time, I knew this was different.

• Donna Summer – If It Hurts Just A Little
• Cassius – Cassius 1999

“Got my mind made up,
all night I’m a stay up
and fuck a lot, but no I ain’t a player.
Girl, I’ll house you, you’re in my hut.
Thinking of a rhyme, trying to hold my nut …”

• Sylvia Striplin – Give Me Your Love
• Armand Van Helden feat. Common – Full Moon

• Bad Manners – This is Ska
• Wyclef Jean, The Rock, Melky Sedeck — It Doesn’t Matter

As a complete piece, the Galantis song is shit (top-40 radio fluff for “millenialls”). But the work they did on that sample: MASSIVE.

• Bettye Swann – Kiss My Love Goodbye
• Galantis – Peanut Butter Jelly

“Why are your friends so annoying? You’re never going to the right restaurant …”

• Wale – Friends N Strangers
• Jerry Seinfeld on David Letterman – My annoying friends, Pop Tarts (1of2, 2010-03-03)

Absolute abuse of a sample, perfect.

• Chili Hi-fly – Is It Love?
• Kool & The Gang – Be My Lady

Check this shit out

• Parris Mitchell – Ghetto Shout Out (feat. Waxmaster)
(Michael Jackson – Billie Jean)

• Daft Punk – Teachers
(Viola Willis – If You Leave Me Now)

• Chic – I Want Your Love
• George Michael – Outside

Absolute House classic, sample drops at 2:00 on the Carrie Lucas tune.

• Carrie Lucas – Dance With You
• Armand Van Helden – You Don’t Know Me (feat. Duane Harden)

• Don Downing – Dream World
• AB/DC (Arthur Baker & Dave Clarke) – This Feeling

• Daft Punk – Aerodynamic
• Wiley – Summertime

Any pessimists, I ain’t talk to them. Plus … I ain’t have no phone in my apartment.

• Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up
• Kanye West – Touch The Sky

Beat Breakdown (not just a cut and loop)

• Tom Tom Club – Genius of Love
• Mariah Carey – Fantasy

• The Beatles – Ticket To Ride
• Happy Mondays – Lazyitis

“Where could we connect the post-secondary-modern intellect of this northern drug aficionado with the bank clerk stiffness of Thomas Steams Eliot?

Eliot not only uses voices, but segues from quote to quote, from stolen scene to stolen scene … Each theft explodes the mood of the stolen-from piece and enriches the base with all of it.

And Shaun photograph-me-with-the-kind-of-topless-glamour-models-who-give-porn-a bad-name Ryder? He could do that. Oh, he could do that.

‘Lazyitis’ begins as a memory of maternal satire. The elegant Mrs Ryder would regularly tell her son he had lazyitis. It’s a northern thing. Adding ‘itis’ to the chosen adjective. Perfect text for a song. But Ryder starts to weave in the attachments, the enrichments.

For starters he puts his mum’s loving put-down into the form of that favourite children’s physical rhyme – you know, the one where your mum and dad tickle each toe in turn until the final little piggy goes whee whee whee all the way home. Well, the first toe has lazyitis, and you can figure out the rest …

Then, since it’s a mother and son reunion … Sly Stone’s great musings on family relationships, the story of the good brother and the ‘bad’ brother, actually opens the song …

Suddenly, you’re into a Beatles tune, and while talking about an ache that makes him ache qualifies for a coupla stars, the fact that this whole section bit is a direct melodic reference to The Beatles’ early pop period is stunning. Combining Beatles purity with some seeming syphilis or cold turkey stuff. Yoking of opposites, weird and extremely successful in literary terms …

[The Mondays’ film-makers, the Bailey Brothers, were working on a movie] called ‘The Revenge of the One-Armed Boxer’ and the Baileys wanted to use an elderly gentleman they had come across in a northern cabaret club for the part of the boxer’s trainer. That was Karl Denver …

David Essex … now the centre and end of the song were wrapped in the trite but immortal ‘We’re Going To Make You A Star’ …

Is this our W.B. Yeats, is this our T.S. Eliot? You bet your fucking life it is” — Tony Wilson

• Kool and the Gang- Summer Madness
• DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Summertime