I just got through watching an episode of The Boondocks from last season and heard this song in the show. It's the original version of the sample used in "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" by Pete Rock and CL Smooth and I'm thinking how have I never heard the original before today...Pete Rock Samples - 19 - Tom Scott - Today
I was listening to an old podcast of Gilles Peterson's done sometime last summer. He was talking with Jose James whose signed to Gilles' Brownswood label. So, throughout the show Gilles played cuts that will be featured on Jose's (hopefully soon to be released) album. Jose's got quite a few cuts that I'm really feeling and one is called "Central Park West." As the track played I was thinking that
I was listening to samples of Jazzanova's Belle et Fou and saw that one of the tracks featured Capital A. Seeing his name reminded me of other tracks he's been featured on by other artists or producers. It was then that I realized he doesn't have a full length album out. Not even a compilation of tracks he's been on. Now that I think about it, there are several other artists fit that fall into...
So much good music, so little time. Every so often I hear song that sound as good today as I'm sure it did when it was made. I seem to suffer from what I call the "late" syndrome. Most of these songs are older than or just as old as me and many of them I just heard (or at least recognized) within the last two or three years. Thanks to the many DJ's, shows like Worldwide and even stations like W...