Light It Up
Nicolay
City Lights 1.5, 2005

I feel like this is the mark of mastery for a producer - the point at which what you are sampling becomes much less important than your (masterful) technique. So…why not sample the intro to Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together”? Why not? The result will be so good that no one will compain, people may even applaud the brashness.

If you haven’t heard of Nicolay, he was the producer of the excellent Foreign Exchange album. The now famous story goes, that he and Phonte from Little Brother met online through Okayplayer and begin sending files back and forth to each other over instant messenger. With Nicolay being based in The Netherlands and Phonte in North Carolina, they never met or had a conversation on the phone before they finished their album.

I thought I would also use this post do a little how-to so that everyone can eliminate the annoying interlude on the end of this song (and the rest of your songs with annoying interludes).

If you choose “get info” under the file menu (might be different on a PC) you get this screen:

If you choose the options tab (marked above), you can choose what time you want the song to end and iTunes will always jump to the next song at that point. 3:05 is a good spot to end this song.

>> songs are available for two weeks (192 kbps) [5.3 MB]
>> songs are available for two weeks (320 kbps) [8.8 MB]

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