At some point in my teens, can't remember exactly when, I started searching out some of the original recordings for the samples cropping up in my favorite hip hop albums, like tribe and de la soul, it was not so much a conscious "I'm going to track this down" kind of thing, more like a general recognition of influence. There were starting points in my fathers record collection. Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay stands out in memory. And also Sky Dive, which I picked up at Everybody's records in Cincy. This track has always been one of my favorites, it takes me back to that time of my life.
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