In an earlier post I linked to some sample tracks by BASIC and other musicians from humanworkshop.com, a Netherlands-based sample and .mp3 trading forum, which has just released a CD of site artists. Track 14, about 30 seconds of BASIC's "Narrow Minded Fool," caught my ear, and after a few listens I pegged a couple of the sources (I know, music nerds, big whoop)--"Accidentals" by Broadcast (1997), a kind of post-Portishead ambient pop outfit from the UK, and "Gui La Testa (Duck You Sucker!)" from The Big Gundown, John Zorn's otherwise not very good 1986 tribute to Ennio Morricone (or is it just that anything with a jaw harp makes me think of that?). I dug out those tracks from the crates (as we say) and did a short "educational" mix, consisting of the BASIC sample followed by Broadcast, Zorn, and the BASIC again, just to hear how everything overlapped. We're talkin' some serious chronological folding here, with the non-hippie '60s as the epicenter. [.mp3 removed]
Haha, how funny to read.
But the jawharp is not by Zorn [although I often do sample from this artist], it is played by my roommate. :-)
The rhodes are clearly sampled from Broadcast, indeed.
My compliments to your roommate on his jaw harp playing. And on your piece; I look forward to hearing the whole thing. (As soon as I get a Paypal account.) I'll be posting more about your site: I find the "Miles sampler kit" strangely disturbing.
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In an earlier post I linked to some sample tracks by BASIC and other musicians from humanworkshop.com, a Netherlands-based sample and .mp3 trading forum, which has just released a CD of site artists. Track 14, about 30 seconds of BASIC's "Narrow Minded Fool," caught my ear, and after a few listens I pegged a couple of the sources (I know, music nerds, big whoop)--"Accidentals" by Broadcast (1997), a kind of post-Portishead ambient pop outfit from the UK, and "Gui La Testa (Duck You Sucker!)" from The Big Gundown, John Zorn's otherwise not very good 1986 tribute to Ennio Morricone (or is it just that anything with a jaw harp makes me think of that?). I dug out those tracks from the crates (as we say) and did a short "educational" mix, consisting of the BASIC sample followed by Broadcast, Zorn, and the BASIC again, just to hear how everything overlapped. We're talkin' some serious chronological folding here, with the non-hippie '60s as the epicenter. [.mp3 removed]
- tom moody 7-21-2004 9:39 am
Haha, how funny to read.
But the jawharp is not by Zorn [although I often do sample from this artist], it is played by my roommate. :-)
The rhodes are clearly sampled from Broadcast, indeed.
- BASIC (guest) 7-23-2004 1:41 pm
My compliments to your roommate on his jaw harp playing. And on your piece; I look forward to hearing the whole thing. (As soon as I get a Paypal account.) I'll be posting more about your site: I find the "Miles sampler kit" strangely disturbing.
- tom moody 7-24-2004 7:48 pm