Someone over at Trojan has asked what tune is being sampled by MF Doom and Wu Tang Clan.

It's a piece of late 70s or early 80s Jazz-Funk or "Club" Soul.

I have the tune, but I'm blowed if I can dig the tune out of my head or find it in my database

It's here - it's mostly the opening bars, but right at the end several indistinct sung words creep into the sample:

https://www.box.net/shared/js0h63iulq

It's probably (very) obvious.

Please can someone put me out of my misery? ...musically, that is

Many thanks

Lowdown - Boz Scaggs from silk degrees album

Someone over at Trojan has asked what tune is being sampled by MF Doom and Wu Tang Clan.

It's a piece of late 70s or early 80s Jazz-Funk or "Club" Soul.

I have the tune, but I'm blowed if I can dig the tune out of my head or find it in my database

It's here - it's mostly the opening bars, but right at the end several indistinct sung words creep into the sample:

https://www.box.net/shared/js0h63iulq

It's probably (very) obvious.

Please can someone put me out of my misery? ...musically, that is

Many thanks

Oh my. my ears are bleading now

Great - thanks, John B) B)

...and so quick

I was wrong. I don't have the tune - I've no Boz Scaggs at all, in fact.

So I was talking tosh...again.

Great - thanks, John B) B)

...and so quick

I was wrong. I don't have the tune - I've no Boz Scaggs at all, in fact.

So I was talking tosh...again.

dig some tracks out by him great underated talent, find a record called (what can i say )great track

dig some tracks out by him great underated talent, find a record called (what can i say )great track

Thanks, newone.

I'm well-enough aware of Boz Scaggs, but avoided buying his stuff back in the 70s - probably because a. it wasn't soulful enough to my ears, so b. the snob in me wouldn't let me shell out any hard-earned on music other than Soul-Disco and Reggae.

...having heard LOWDOWN sampled at least 20 times today, while trying desperately to remembere what the tunes was, maybe I should invest in at least a "Best of..."

...when I eventually get a job and some money

Lowdown is a great record - the LP is in most UK charity shops, and it's on 45 too...

just listened to the other track and that's really awful...

- the vocals are actually from the excellent Gravediggaz 1st LP not the Wu Tang Clan (although the groups shared a common member), but that's a really terrible remix/mashup/whatever

Thanks, newone.

I'm well-enough aware of Boz Scaggs, but avoided buying his stuff back in the 70s - probably because a. it wasn't soulful enough to my ears, so b. the snob in me wouldn't let me shell out any hard-earned on music other than Soul-Disco and Reggae.

...having heard LOWDOWN sampled at least 20 times today, while trying desperately to remembere what the tunes was, maybe I should invest in at least a "Best of..."

...when I eventually get a job and some money

I got the Boz Scaggs "MY TIME (1969-1997)" 2_CD anthology for my birthday - very informative potted bio sleevenotes, with the date and musicians listed for each tune - and the music's pretty sound (though a bit MOR in places) too B) B)

Thanks for the help