Not to be nitpicky or anything, but I just thought you'd might like to know that, despite the fact that you sourced Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotized" for the one track and, thus, credited as such (understandbly) by virtue of the fact that he is a more well-recognized artist, you actually should have properly identified it as a sample from the Herb Alpert track "Rise".
I'm familiar with the Herb Alpert track (and I'm a big fan), but I sampled it within the context of the Biggie song. Many songs are built from samples of various levels of recognizability - heck, a portion of the Beastie Boys song I sampled samples Led Zeppelin, and the Beck song I sampled, in turn, samples that Beastie Boys song! Sampling is a crazy mixed up world, and I love it, but I'm not going to bother with trying to give credit to every artist whose recordings may have ended up on my track, when I'm just giving away free MP3s of some remixes I did in my basement. People can do their own research if they want to find out how the source materials were put together. I hope they do, sometimes it's really interesting!
Damn, that is a really unnecessarily long response. But it's 1:30 AM, and I'm not editing it.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention the Southside Movement song that's sampled in the Beastie Boys song also appears in this track. It's that great little organ/siren bit capped off with two brass hits that happens right before the chorus in the original Beasties track. I think that's my favorite part of that song.
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Not to be nitpicky or anything, but I just thought you'd might like to know that, despite the fact that you sourced Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotized" for the one track and, thus, credited as such (understandbly) by virtue of the fact that he is a more well-recognized artist, you actually should have properly identified it as a sample from the Herb Alpert track "Rise".
I'm familiar with the Herb Alpert track (and I'm a big fan), but I sampled it within the context of the Biggie song. Many songs are built from samples of various levels of recognizability - heck, a portion of the Beastie Boys song I sampled samples Led Zeppelin, and the Beck song I sampled, in turn, samples that Beastie Boys song! Sampling is a crazy mixed up world, and I love it, but I'm not going to bother with trying to give credit to every artist whose recordings may have ended up on my track, when I'm just giving away free MP3s of some remixes I did in my basement. People can do their own research if they want to find out how the source materials were put together. I hope they do, sometimes it's really interesting!
Damn, that is a really unnecessarily long response. But it's 1:30 AM, and I'm not editing it.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention the Southside Movement song that's sampled in the Beastie Boys song also appears in this track. It's that great little organ/siren bit capped off with two brass hits that happens right before the chorus in the original Beasties track. I think that's my favorite part of that song.
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