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解析断裂原子的样本

我们努力解析专辑中的数十个样本

发表于 January 19, 2017

像许多同时期发行的重要嘻哈专辑一样——保罗的专卖店,三尺高与升起——Main Source的Breaking Atoms今天如果发布在商业市场是根本无法存在的。它的采样过于随意,想象一下,仅仅是这张专辑中詹姆斯·布朗(James Brown)的采样清理费用,对于任何不叫Kanye West的说唱歌手来说都是不可承受的。

但这并不意味着Breaking Atoms是一张易于找样的专辑;它的价值超过了其组成部分的总和,而且从混音中找出采样并不总是那么简单。这个团队有着翻唱挖掘的制作人/说唱歌手Large Professor——在Main Source的回顾中他常常获得很大一部分的功劳——但他们还拥有Sir Scratch和K-Kut,这两个人也曾作为DJ深入挖掘最好的派对采样。找出哪些歌曲在Breaking Atoms中被采样,以及哪个制作人/团队成员从空中拣起来的,结果是如此有趣的经历——致敬我们在WhoSampled?的朋友们——我们做了和本月Panda Bear唱片一样的事情:这里是Breaking Atoms中被采样的歌曲的详细分析。

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“Snake Eyes”

The sample stew on Breaking Atoms is felt from the jump, as the group manages to sample Ike Turner (the main musical figure at the beginning of the song), Melvin Van Peebles and Earth Wind and Fire (the saxophone and melody at 3:19), Soul legend Johnnie Taylor (the UH!s you hear throughout the song), and Kool & the Gang (the titular dialog at :11). For good measure, they throw in a flute sample (at 2:41) from an obscure soul record too.

“Just Hanging Out”

Kanye West famously sampled Sister Nancy’s “Bam Bam,” on well, “Famous,” last year, and you have to figure the fact that it was a famous break and sample on this album had a lot to do with that. However, “Just Hanging Out” is mostly built on the meat of Vanessa Kendrick’s “90% of Me is You,” a sultry soulful song. The track also cribs the opening guitar strum of a Mike Bloomfield-Stephen Stills-Al Kooper song (:22), drums from a Skull Snaps song, and its theme and vocal samples from a Sweet Charles song (he played with James Brown). Main Source are just showing off here, plucking tiny bits of music to make into something bigger.

“Looking at the Front Door”

Large Pro’s dexterity with chopping up jazz--which had a major impact on all the Native Tongues groups like Tribe Called Quest, De La, and groups like Digable Planets--isn’t fully felt till “Looking at the Front Door,” a song that chops up an indelible, tossed off groove from jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, who at 1:48 of the song below skronks off the melody that became the melody for this Main Source classic. The drums come a Detroit Emeralds song, and then the vocal samples and “UH’s” all come from a variety of crate classics the group dug up.

“Large Professor”

The showcase for Large Pro is mostly built around the group’s dexterous scratching abilities. But the samples here take time to crib a dope organ line and drums from the Mohawks (at :15 in the original and :34 of the Main Source song), a piano figure literally 14:51 into a Charles Wright song, and vocals from an earlier Main Source single.

“Just a Friendly Game of Baseball”

The emotional centerpiece of Breaking Atoms is this track, a song about police brutality and how a police force can see its policing as just a game it’s playing on a populace. It’s also the sample centerpiece, pulling in scraps of seven songs. Two ancillary James Brown samples (drums and organ at :37 of the Main Source song, and some drums at 3:05) boost the song’s foundational Lou Donaldson sample, and its Lightnin’ Rod vocal samples. Then Large Pro drops samples in lead up to the choruses, dropping Elephant’s Memory, the 9th Creation, and Melvin Van Peebles at various points.

“Scratch & Kut”

Sir Scratch and K-Kut get to show off here, on this monument to scratching and sampling. The song’s main pillar is drums from the jazz musician Bob James, it also cribs some flute from Kool and the Gang (at 1:18 on the song below), and some sampled vocals from Lyn Collins and an earlier Main Source song.

“Peace is Not the Word to Play”

This track could be its own masterclass in the power of taking scraps of old songs and making something new, as pieces of seven songs form a new, distinct, original whole. Sleigh bells and drums from an obscure old R&B Christmas song by Milly & Silly give the song its backbone. Horn blasts from Philadelphia soul group MFSB add some flourish on top of that. Then, scraps of vocals from five songs--ranging from James Brown to the Meters--pop up in the choruses where the group cuts and scratches. The result is that the song sounds like it’s conversing with these lost samples.

“Vamos a Rapiar”

Large Professor gifted Pete Rock one of his first solo production credits with this track. Rock found the Soul Symphony song that this is built on, and gave it to Large Pro who made it his own. Large Pro still gave Pete the co-production credit though. Large Pro also added the vocal samples from “The Message From The Soul Sisters.”

"He Got So Much Soul (He Don't Need No Music)"

This track has the fewest samples of any song on Breaking Atoms, and for incredible reasons: it rescues a lost song by the soul singer Lou Courtney and recontextualizes it as a hip-hop headknocker. It’s a simple song, but it swings big.

“Live at the Barbecue”

This track is maybe the most famous from this album, in that it’s the recorded debut of Nas, as he cuts a vapor trail 40 miles wide through the first verse of this song. He would go on to sample the song on his debut LP, Illmatic, which started a trend that is impossible to track: Breaking Atoms is probably the most sampled and interpolated album in rap history, as lyrical threads, samples, vocals, and parts of this album have appeared on dozens of other albums.

That’s a story for a different time though; about the samples here. The drums come from a Bob James song--he’s one of Large Pro’s faves-- and the blaxpolitation sound effects at the beginning come from a Melvin Van Peebles soundtrack cut that’s impossible to find on the net. The guitar strums--that end up on the Main Source song sounding like alarms to let you know Nas is coming through--come from a Vickie Anderson song. Then, at the :15-:18 mark of “Live at the Barbecue,” we’re treated to an interpolation of the early Run DMC song “Hollis Crew,” and a snippet of “Just Hanging Out” from this very album. Which I guess means Breaking Atoms was the first album to interpolate or sample Breaking Atoms.

“Watch Roger Do His Thing”

Another song that’s relatively light on samples closes out Breaking Atoms. “Watch Roger Do His Thing” has a drum break from Sly Stone (at 2:12 of the Sly song below), and another drum break from Funkadelic (:34 of the Main Source song). The hockey organ? That’s apparently a Main Source original, though the mind races at the idea of the group holding up a mic at a Rangers game to get the sound.

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Andrew Winistorfer

Andrew Winistorfer is Senior Director of Music and Editorial at Vinyl Me, Please, and a writer and editor of their books, 100 Albums You Need in Your Collection and The Best Record Stores in the United States. He’s written Listening Notes for more than 30 VMP releases, co-produced multiple VMP Anthologies, and executive produced the VMP Anthologies The Story of Vanguard, The Story of Willie Nelson, Miles Davis: The Electric Years and The Story of Waylon Jennings. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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