Via EgoTripLand.com: Brooklyn’s finest is one of the globe’s greatest party-people-pleasin’ turntable technicians, as anyone who’s attended his renowned Stevie Wonder, or Prince vs. Michael Jackson tribute parties, or enjoyed his uniformly excellent mix compilations can attest. What folks tend to forget, however, is that Spinna’s also a tremendously well-rounded producer, whose repertoire includes underground hip-hop, R&B, and house classics. In advance of Wednesday’s gig, we caught up with this master craftsman to ask him what his 10 favorite sample-based production flips are – any genre, any style.
As a teaser, here’s Spinna’s #1
DJ Spinna: My number one is the J Dilla production of Black Star’s “Little Brother” – one of the craziest flips of all time. And I’ve come to realize even more how crazy it is when I re-created it. It took me about three hours to figure out what Dilla did. But I wanted to do an instrumental for [the song] because there is no instrumental that exists unless you have the original beat tape that it was on. I was also curious about the parts that Dilla took to sample from the Roy Ayers song because Roy Ayers is singing all over that record and there’s hardly any break.
Black Star – Little Brother
Dilla sampled parts from the very beginning to almost the middle of the song – anywhere he could take an open piece. Even the intro where Roy Ayers says, “Now listen” – that’s part of the loop. So I recreated it, man, and realized it’s really clever. It’s only an 8-bar loop but you think it’s longer just from all the pieces that he put together. I wanted to re-create the instrumental in time for Dilla’s birthday anniversary and play it at the “Donuts Are Forever” party last February, which I did at the very end of the night. That was my mission.
Roy Ayers – Ain’t Got Time
Read the rest of Spinna’s picks
Link: http://www.egotripland.com/dj-spinnas-10-favorite-sample-flips/
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