Reworking Musical History: Jazz, Soul, and Hip Hop Samples

music_phantom13 · 05-04-2014, 08:15 PM

Well, I'm back on mob tonight after years astray. I was a somewhat active user 4 or 5 years ago, and just saw that an old journal of mine is still here. My musical taste has changed pretty drastically sense then so it seems fitting to start something new rather than revive an old partially finished and no longer accurate top 100 albums. Back then I was getting far too caught up in keeping up with all the new pitchfork type music coming out and downloading everything I saw on musicbanter; I listened to tons of music but I actually managed to make one of my favorite things become stressful - i was trying to hear everything and ended up not spending enough time to really get to know must of it.

Somewhere along the way I got fed up with it, deleted a bunch of stuff, and took some time to discover the music that I truly love. I kept getting drawn back to hip hop and rap. Then, one day, I was learning to play Aurarian Dance by Nujabes and found that he sampled Laurindo almeida's the lamp is low and it struck me that I loved this music largely based on sampling but had no idea where it all came from, and I started finding new things, which led to my current musical loves of soul and jazz.

So with this new journal, I'd like to write about some soul and jazz songs by looking at hip hop hat has sampled them. I know mb doesn't, or at least didn't in the past, have that many members into these genres, but hopefully you guys will find it interesting.

05-04-2014, 08:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
music_phantom13 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 942	Reworking Musical History: Jazz, Soul, and Hip Hop Samples Well, I'm back on mob tonight after years astray. I was a somewhat active user 4 or 5 years ago, and just saw that an old journal of mine is still here. My musical taste has changed pretty drastically sense then so it seems fitting to start something new rather than revive an old partially finished and no longer accurate top 100 albums. Back then I was getting far too caught up in keeping up with all the new pitchfork type music coming out and downloading everything I saw on musicbanter; I listened to tons of music but I actually managed to make one of my favorite things become stressful - i was trying to hear everything and ended up not spending enough time to really get to know must of it. Somewhere along the way I got fed up with it, deleted a bunch of stuff, and took some time to discover the music that I truly love. I kept getting drawn back to hip hop and rap. Then, one day, I was learning to play Aurarian Dance by Nujabes and found that he sampled Laurindo almeida's the lamp is low and it struck me that I loved this music largely based on sampling but had no idea where it all came from, and I started finding new things, which led to my current musical loves of soul and jazz. So with this new journal, I'd like to write about some soul and jazz songs by looking at hip hop hat has sampled them. I know mb doesn't, or at least didn't in the past, have that many members into these genres, but hopefully you guys will find it interesting.