when everybody else was mainly samplin' funk and soul, puff and them was samplin' disco

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never this was the song they sampled from for faith's song "all night long" :ohhh:


the part they sampled is at the 3 minute and 58 second mark



 
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I said before, the shiny suit era MUSICALLY speaking was a return to the OG rap on record hiphop sound.


Everyone knows the backbone of hip-hop is the breakbeat. From the block parties of NYC in the tail end of the 1970s to the late-’80s/early ’90s golden era of hip-hop, the best breaks from the seemingly inexhaustible world of soul, jazz and funk recordings were mined by dusty fingered DJs to form foundations perhaps even more fundamental to contemporary hip-hop than its four pillars. The breakbeat became such an underlying and integral element of hip hop that new breaks, their discoverers and their studio manipulators became revered as the fuel that, alongside lyrical delivery, would perpetuate the genre creatively.
 But, so central did the funk breakbeat become to the sound of hip-hop, that the music’s roots in disco are often overlooked. It is instead the legions of house music DJs and their dancers who have claimed disco as their ancestral history, with disco classics now an ever present highlight heard in house sets during the all day summer parties of Ibiza and the marathon weekends in Berlin’s darkest warehouses.
 In putting together his new compilation for BBE Records, Reach Up – Disco Wonderland, Andy Smith, a DJ grounded within hip-hop and with a longstanding reputation within the genre, hopes to go some way in reclaiming disco as the beginnings not only of house music, but of hip-hop too.


Andy Smith explores hip-hop's disco roots - Wax Poetics
 
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