The Find (PPP Remix)
Ohmega Watts
The Find, 2005
“We’re bringing it back to when it was fresh to say def; the 80’s were a mess but MCs rose to make you say yes, yes.”
I’m obviously going to be a sucker for a song about record digging but I swear this song is hot regardless. This is actually what a perfect example of my side of the argument when people say that hip hop producers have no talent and just steal music. Well, in fairness, my first response is, “a lot of the time you’re right” but then I offer examples of producers recontextualizing sounds to create songs that create a totally different emotional experience from samples original mood. The Platinum Pied Pipers (PPP) sampled The Intruder’s “Cowboys To Girls” which is an intentionally cute song about childhood love and rememberences but (insert producer knowledge that I don’t have here) flipped really sunshiney sounding samples into something moody that sounds like it belongs in the early a.m. hours. Their use of the horns is especially impressive; when I first heard this mix, I couldn’t place the sample even though I already knew the Intruder’s song. I got really excited about the horns because I thought it meant there was another song (that I would be finding shortly) that had amazing moody horns. When I realized they were from “Cowboys to Girls” I was disappointed because I already knew that song and…well, it’s not moody or amazing at all.
FYI - this remix is actually not on The Find - that’s just the only art I could find.
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