Thursday 29 January 2009

Sampled By Who?? Mysterious Flying Orchestra vs Roni Size

Part Two Brings us another little gem from the Vaults. Recorded in 1977 by the Mysterious Flying Orchestra, who were almost a super group of jazz musicians under the direction of Bob Thiele, this track has been sampled a few times, but the original is a fantastic piece of music in it's own right:

Mysterious Flying Orchestra - Shadows



EDIT: Massive props to my man Ello Rollo who found the version of Shadows that was sampled. It's from the Expansions LP of 1974 by a certain Lonnie Liston Smith, who was also a member of the Mysterious flying Orchestra. This version preceded theirs by approximately 3 years and I'm pretty sure this is the one Roni lifted his sample from. what do you think?
Lonnie Liston Smith - Shadows




Then almost 17 years later on two young producers from Bristol by the name of Roni Size & DJ Die came across the track, lifted the sample and melded it into a Drum n Bass masterpiece: It's a Jazz Thing on V Recordings.

Roni Size & DJ Die - It's a Jazz Thing




Roll forward another 9 years to 2003 and DJ Premier, probably the guy I respect most as far as diggin' for samples and then using them imaginatively cuts it about a bit and uses it for the Skillz tune on Gang Starr's The Ownerz LP.
This is another big cut, which I still play out regularily!

Gang Starr - Skillz

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I cant work out which one I like best?!

The original or sampled version. Great post.

5 February 2009 at 20:53  

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