Monday, October 29, 2007

Remember Those Days?


Back in 2001 I was still living at my parents house, working at Farmers and making beats in my downstairs bedroom. I had a friend in Christchurch who I felt was a really great rapper and I would send him cassette tapes of beats in the post (snail mail). My way of making beats back then was entirely self-taught and naive in its approach. I had picked up what little technical knowledge I had from magazines that I'd read over the years and from listening closely to records and picking them apart (no internet access for me back then!). It kinda goes without saying that with little disposable income and a rudimentary knowledge of samples that I was down to make beats from whatever things I could find. Hence the huge stash of crappy 'salvation army' & second hand furniture store records filling up my crates at the time. Granted I still had a couple of funky breaks in my collection, but mostly what I had were the type of easy-listening and classical records that my nana's generation listened to back in the 60's and 70's and promptly disposed of when new formats like Cassette tapes and Compact Discs came out in the 80's.
Which brings us to todays (rather uncool) sample source for a certain P-Money & Scribe joint titled "Remember". The guitar and vocal lines are lifted from the very popular greek singer Nana Mouskouri and her track of a similar name "Try To Remember".
Take a listen to how the intro guitar is chopped and sped up in our version, its kinda tricky, I still find it hard to recall exactly how I put it together...

P-Money ft. Scribe - "Remember?"
Nana Mouskouri - "Try To Remember"

6 comments:

  1. does anyone else read p's blogs other than me....anyway nanas version reminds me of a late night souvlaki restraunt kind of music or something

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  2. thanks for the comment Caro. You are not alone!

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  3. my god you are a net beast! hahah!!!!

    just saw an extract of this flash up on the facebook homepage feed

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