Here it is... Sample Snitchin' Part 1

The first installation of Sample Snitchin' with, as you can tell from the picture above, a Dilla Delicacy from Welcome 2 Detroit.

Let me start off by giving you the original (true Dilla fans will know the track crafted from the piece as soon as they hear it):

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Nice little fusion piece leaning more towards the free jazz area. Would love to give you guys the artist and track name, but I'm not trying to invite postmortem lawsuits on the Yancey household. The portion used is actually from around the 0:19 point.

Now, here's the track he molded from a small snippet within the original:

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Tell me that the final track isn't just pure genius. Dilla definitely did a great job of erecting a very strong sound garden around the sample, adding a very deep and sparse bassline along his signature off-kilter drums.

I know that some may say that sample based music is not "music", but, after listening to what equates to pure genius here, how can you deny such music's place?

In my opinion, a great sample job is when you hear the original and you go, "I would have never thought of sampling that shit, and, even if I did, it sure wasn't going to come out sounding nothing like that."

That is the case here today, ladies and gentleman.

I will continue to series based on the feedback I get on this post. I have another track where Dilla made two beats just from the 20 second intro of this one song.

But, if you don't comment, you may never hear it, so... You know what to do. Until then, peace.

And, here I stand with my gun in my hand...

So, I just wanted to let ya'll know that I'm still here. I got like no comments on my last post, bu t that's cool. I've never been part of the in-crowd, nahmean? Also, the fact that I only get to update the blog like every 2 weeks doesn't help too much either, does it?

Anyway, I'll probably get a post with actual content up tomorrow. I am planning to begin a series called "Sample Snitchin'". Now, don't get me wrong, I won't actually be exposing the original artists or song titles of the songs the samples were pilfered from (I'm not trying to make life any harder to sampling producers out there), but I will be providing the track used (with no ID3 tags for you sneaky bastards out there) and the song it was used within. I also might only provide a snippet of the original track. It's all up in the air.

Well, just as a heads up, the first producer to be exposed will be none other than the late, great J. Dilla. And, TRUST ME, I'm going to be providing you with some ish that you have not heard on any of the million plus sample mixes that have sprouted up out of the nebula since his passing.

So, that's it. Stay tuned and TRUST ME, the samples will be some ish you haven't heard.

Lastly, I wanted to plug my myspace page: Harmonix Analogue

I should be adding a new beat to the page sometime this weekend, so be sure to hit it up.

Anyway, until tomorrow, peace.