Reunions: JJ Fad Set To Get Supersonic All Over Again.
Maybe I’m old and crotchety but what really grabbed my ear back when hip hop was a new thing was that it was fun. And few tracks were as fun as “Supersonic.” In my circle of friends, “The S is for Super, The U is for Unique” regularly comes up in conversation.
So yeah, I’m sure that JJ Fad in their 40s might not be cutting edge, but I’m hoping it will be fun.
Livejournal user rape_blossom sure does know how to find them. Warning, a couple of candidates for rotten.com.
It’s no mystery that since I’ve had a computer at home for 25 years, and have been pursing music with the computer for at least 15 years, that I will have built up quite a collection of files.
And finally I’ve instituted a backup strategy beyond unjustified optimism — I’m using SyncToy to copy files to a backup external drive.
What I didn’t realize that beyond the 600 odd gigabytes of various things — a whole lot of mp3 and wav files, sample sets, etc — that there are almost 850,000 separate files. The initial sync — i.e. a bulk copy, in effect — took over 12 hours.
Considering that my first computer had 64k of RAM, and 2 280k floppies, this seemed insane to me, but there you have it.
I’ve been meaning to do this for some time, so here goes. This is a collection of unreleased songs from my back catalog. There’s all sorts of genres represented, but in choosing the tracks, I tried to pick songs that were the best example of I was doing at any given time. I haven’t dated them here, but some of them date themselves. For example, when was it a big deal to do an Amen break track? When were 90BPM hip hop instrumentals something people made a million of?
These tracks are lousy with uncleared samples; consequently if anyone actually recognizes a sample of their work and objects I’ll remove the file.
If someone takes a particular shine to a track and wants to remix it let me know. Most of these only exist as mixdowns of long-lost percursor files and sequences, but if I can provide individual sounds, I’d be happy to.
1. NYE
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2. Morton’s Shadow (samples from Morton Subotnick “Silver Apples of the Moon” and DJ Shadow)
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3. Lucas
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4. Noise Dub
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5. Grandiose (with Lucas Williams on Guitar)
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6. Sweetness (samples Lush)
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7. Windchime
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8. Monked (samples Theleonius Monk and Weather Report)
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9. The Wrong Trousers (with Axy Jeeb)
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10. Mayday
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11. Little Miss (samples Raymond Scott and Elaine Elias)
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12. Inna (samples Inna & the Farlanders)
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13. Hubert (samples Hubert Laws)
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14. Honey (samples (samples Sweet Honey In The Rock)
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15. Gee Why
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16. Busy Signal
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17. AD Remix (based on samples from Andrew Duke)
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18. Labor Day
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19. Nativity (samples some crazy bible story 7″ record)
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20. Redux
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