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De@dr!nger [Samples]

People have been asking for this for a while. Hopefully it doesn't get taken down again.

Constellation Funk

El-P - Fantastic Damage [The Samples]

This one is for my fellow Def Jukies out there. If I was to say that this sample set dropped into my lap from the moon, I wouldn't be far off from the truth. I've been looking for the samples to this album since the beginning of this blog and I had only managed to find 1 (the Bowie sample). Then, out of nowhere , an angel, by the name of Kasper Beckmann, dropped it into my inbox. Though it isn't complete, I don't foresee it becoming any "completer" any time soon, so here goes.

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Equinoxe III ['Squeege Man Shooting'] 1 Jean Michel Jarre 5:10 Fantastic Damage [The Samples]
Water ['Deep Space 9mm'] 2 Silver Apples 4:19 Fantastic Damage [The Samples]
Holy Ghost ['Deep Space 9mm'] 3 The Bar-Kays 3:56 Fantastic Damage [The Samples]
Bass Folk Song ['Tuned Mass Dumper'] 4 Joe Farrell 9:47 Fantastic Damage [The Samples]
Part Two [Tuned Mass Dumper'] 5 Mike Oldfield 23:23 Fantastic Damage [The Samples]
Power Surge ['DeLorean'] 6 Chris Rae/Frank McDonald 1:19 Fantastic Damage [The Samples]
Live Wire ['Accidents Don't Happen'] 7 The Meters 2:38 Fantastic Damage [The Samples]
Soul Love ['Innocent Leader'] 8 David Bowie 3:34 Fantastic Damage [The Samples]

Damn, I'm Cold

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein [The Samples]
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"It's a Cold world out there, sometimes I think I'm getting a bit frosty myself". Thus begins the greatest album to ever grace the hip-hop genre ((c)Alexander Opoku-Agyemang). I copped this album within a few weeks of its release and I haven't gone longer than a few weeks without bumping it since. When I relive my high school memories, this is the soundtrack. It was for my friends and I in the Bronx what Smells Like Teen Spirit must have been for suburban kids a generation before and The Ramones were to the generation (or so) before that. It was bleak, dissonant and devastated. It was about fury but not anger, cold without being unwelcoming.
Without it, I doubt very much that I would be a hip-hop fan today. It stretched my mind beyond the restrictive by-the-books-boom-bap let's-save-hip-hop New York underground bullshit (not all of it, but most of it) that I was an ardent disciple of back then. Consequentially, this expansion of the confines of hip-hop is what later allowed me to appreciate Dipset for what they were. The lyrics were mind-bending (I'm still (re)discovering nuggets of lyrical wisdom even now) and the beats, as evidenced by the far out sample set, were like nothing I had ever heard before. It redefined the term organized cacophony and the philosophy of creation through destruction. It redefined my conception of beauty itself (1.[||] 2. I'm deadly serious).

Leopard Tree People ('Iron Galaxy') 1 Giorgio Moroder 3:58 Cold Vein [The Samples]
Mexican Radio ('Iron Galaxy') 2 Wall of Voodoo 4:10 Cold Vein [The Samples]
The Unutterable ('Straight Off The D.I.C.') 3 Philip Glass 7:03 Cold Vein [The Samples]
Sweaters ('Raspberry Fields') 4 Laurie Anderson 2:23 Cold Vein [The Samples]
All Night Long ('The F-Word') 5 Dexter Wansel 5:33 Cold Vein [The Samples]
Attic Thoughts ('Stress Rap') 6 Bo Hansson 5:33 Cold Vein [The Samples]
Astronauts Nightmare ('Battle For Asgard') 7 Nektar 6:27 Cold Vein [The Samples]
Tambura ('Battle For Asgard') 8 Ramsey Lewis 3:01 Cold Vein [The Samples]
Love and Happiness ('Painkillers') 9 Al Green 3:14 Cold Vein [The Samples]
Portrait of Tracy ('Pigeon') 10 Jaco Pastorious 2:23 Cold Vein [The Samples]
Love Is Like Oxygen ('Life's Ill' (Bonus)) 11 Sweet 6:53 Cold Vein [The Samples]