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By O-Dub 
Ralph MacDonald just passed away. He wasn’t always as well known as a solo artist since the most prolific part of his career came as a percussionist for hire, but in that regard, he was world-class and one of the most important percussionists for countless 1970s and early ’80s jazz and R&B artists. He was also a highly undersung songwriter, having penned several absolutely classics alongside his writing partner William Salter.
I wanted to whip together a personal list of favorites that MacDonald helped craft. If you’re like me, you might very well [...]
Continue reading RALPH MACDONALD: UNIVERSAL RHYTHMS (RIP)
By O-Dub 
As promised, here’s part two of our interview with Thes One (recorded in August). If you haven’t peeped part one yet, please do!
And don’t forget that the new PUTS album, Highlighter is now out.
The Sidebar #20: Thes One, Part Deux
Music used in this episode:(All instrumentals available on the forthcoming Ten Years of Thes One *except when noted.)
Acid Raindrops (vocal version) *Target (from Lifestyle Marketing) *Duralcha: Ghet-To Funk The Dig (vocal version) Breakdown (vocal version) Brownout (vocal version) The Fun (vocal version) Gamin On Ya (vocal version) The [...]
Continue reading THE SIDEBAR 20: THES ONE, PART DEUX
By O-Dub 
In the latest edition of our Soul Sides / Sliced side project, Joseph Schloss breaks down one of the all-time funk (and sampling) classics, “Sing a Simple Song” by Sly and the Family Stone. Schloss focuses on Stone’s innovative use of stereo panning effects that later hip-hop producers learned to use to their own advantage.
Other updates: part 2 of our podcast with Thes One coming very soon (later this week). Meanwhile, PUTS’s newest album, Highlighter is out. For digital heads, peep out the 24-bit HD version! If you don’t know what that means…Thes breaks it down [...]
Continue reading BREAKING DOWN: SING A SIMPLE SONG
By O-Dub
Wish I had seen this prior to putting up the podcast with SFJ but it’s very cool that there’s a video for “Rocket In the Pocket.”
Here’s a few more:
Thanks to Soulstrut for the links.
By O-Dub  
On a soon-to-be-shared Sidebar podcast, I spoke with music critic Sasha Frere-Jones about his summer song choices and during the “bonus beats” part of the interview, we got around talking to his own vinyl purge from a few years back. He was talking about letting go of the fetish quality of records, pointing out that access to music is unprecedented so why hold onto vinyl as a specific medium when he has other options at his disposal.
I’m absolutely sympathetic to that view – [...]
Continue reading THE GREAT RAP PURGE PART 3
By O-Dub 
The Intruders: (We’ll Be) United
From 7″ (Gamble, 1966). Also on The Best Of.
Music Makers: United
From 7″ (Gamble, 196?)
Chikaramanga feat. Droop Capone: A Life Like This
From 7″ single (Tres, 2010)
My habit is to list songs in chronological order but in this case, I should really flip this around since the first of these three tunes I became familiar with was “A Life LIke This.” The 7″ single, featuring Japanese producer Chikaramanga collabo-ing with L.A. rapper Droop Capone, came out early 2010 and as a longtime [...]
Continue reading “UNITED” THROUGH ALL
By O-Dub 
My review of WTT came out on Tuesday and while it summed up my basic impressions, there’s only so much one can do in 5 minutes w/ 500 words. Not every album needs more but in this case and honestly, given 2000 words, I don’t think I could have done a better job than what my friends Jon and Hua did for the NY Times and Grantland.com respectively. And I certainly couldn’t have done anything as spot-on and hilarious as what Abe Beame knocked out for Passion of the Weiss.
And here’s the [...]
Continue reading LEAVING THE THRONE BEHIND
By O-Dub 
egotripland.com has been running a series – now three deep(?) – on producers talking about their favorite sample flips. So far, they’ve had Jake One and DJ Spinna, and today, it’s Prince Paul’s turn (interviewed by my dude Dave Ma of Nerdtorious).
The whole series is a gem. I’m supposed to rap with Chairman Mao for a future Sidebar and will likely chat him up on the whole notion of what a “flip” is. (By the way, next two Sidebars, already in the can and just in the queue, are with B+ and Dan Charnas. Keep [...]
Continue reading PRINCE PAUL’S FAVORITE SAMPLE FLIPS
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