• Love Committee – Just As Long As I Got You
• Dimitri from Paris edit
Sample Tuesday
MTV once referred to Fatboy Slim’s video as “technically and artistically substandard” and refused to play it. The label gave Fatboy one (or many) of those classic speeches about how nobody’s going to play it and the artist will be ruined … Fatboy Slim refused to change it.
VH1 picked it up at some point, it became a sort of viral hit, before the internet. A few months later, the video won an MTV award, and an MTV Europe award because, of course, MTV recognizes artistry.
Aside from the video, let’s just take a moment to appreciate what a master of sampling Fatboy Slim is.
• Camille Yarbrough – Take Yo’ Praise
• Hoyt Axton – Balance and Rehearsal (documents the recording of the track “Captain America”)
• Steve Miller Band – Lucky Man
• Fatboy Slim — Praise You
Too Good Monday
• Joe South – Games People Play
Remix Friday
I know how important Ibiza was for electronic music back in the days of DJ Alfredo, Amnesia, and the Brits that went there on holiday and came back (Oaky, Rampling, et al). But, all due respect to THAT scene, in my lifetime Ibiza has been something quite different (fake plastic trees, if you know what I mean).
Electronic music really doesn’t need Ibiza, Ibiza needs good music.
“The music industry may be a crawling hive of hucksters, hipsters and whores. But it has one central glory. One crowning fact. The song. It is about the song and in the end only the song. And great songs cannot be stopped. Cannot be denied … The song. The fucking song. A great song will rise up just because it’s a great fucking song. In a world of hype there is, in the end, only honesty.” — Tony Wilson
• New Order – Blue Monday
• Carl Cox Ibiza Remix
Future Thursday
I found the news samples strange but I did get high on this groove so maybe it was appropriately named.
• DJ Sneak – Marijuana
Random Wednesday
• Flaco Jimenez: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
https://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oralh_flacojimenez.html
Sample Tuesday
• The Lost Generation – This Is The Lost Generation
• Die Fantastischen Vier – Tag am Meer MTV Unplugged
Too Good Monday
• R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
Remix Friday
• Tom Trago – Use Me Again
• Carl Craig Rework
Future Thursday
“I could never understand what all the categories were for House music … there’s good and there’s bad … House is just House” — Kerri Chandler
• Kerri Chandler – House Is House
Random Wednesday
I’m the first one in class and the last to leave.
I mean the first one to leave out of class; believe
that I’m a mailbox pimp in my heart ’til I die,
even after I’m all gone and my ashes fry.
• Eminem & Kon Artis feat. Alchemist (on Tim Westwood, live at Maida Vale)
Sample Tuesday
• Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots
• George Michael – Fastlove
Too Good Monday
There goes my singing career …
• Al Green – Love and Happiness
Remix Friday
• Kym Sims – Too Blind To See It
• Hurley’s House Mix
Future Thursday
The sample is repetitive and noisy, yes—you can fast forward it if you want. The groove gets serious at 2:05 … As a matter of fact, it gets so good that this could make best of the year …
• Theo Parrish – Only The Beginning
Random Wednesday
Mind you that in 1997, in the American mainstream, Hip Hop was not Hip Hop anymore. There were no B-boys, there was no graffiti. I’m not sure they even had DJs that could cut. All you had was bling bling Rap. The Jason Nevins Run DMC remix was a notable exception but, other than that, you had to go to brits like Fatboy Slim to see this sort of thing.
• Fatboy Slim – Going Out Of My Head [Official Video]
Sample Tuesday
• Instant Funk – Got My Mind Made Up (1978 Disco Version)
• De La Soul feat. Q-Tip and Vinia Mojica – A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”
• Got My Mind Made Up (ft. Dat Nigga Daz, Kurupt, Method Man, Redman)
De La Bonus:
• Mighty Ryeders – Evil Vibrations
• Young Holt Unlimited – Light My Fire
Too Good Monday
I want to make songs all the fellas love,
and murder every rich rapper that I’m jealous of.
So, just remember, when I bomb your set,
I only cuss to make your mom upset.
• Eminem – Cum On Everybody
Remix Friday
The Not Safe For Work (NSFW) Fortnight, Week 3 (one more nut): all these tunes, most of them House, will throw sex sounds, or sex lyrics—sooner or later.
• Disclosure – What’s In Your Head
Future Thursday
The Not Safe For Work (NSFW) Fortnight, Week 3 (one more nut): all these tunes, most of them House, will throw sex sounds, or sex lyrics—sooner or later.
• Romanthony – Up All Nite (Disco Vocal Mix)
Massive Tunes 