Back again with another '
Under the Influence with..... 'post. This time around we have JLS/ from the
Little-D Soundlab. Back in December we had an excellent post from
40Winks that includded tunes from Kraftwerk, The Roots, ATCQ, and others. JLS follows up with another great posts and some cool insights into what has influenced him musically. Cheers mate. As ever, check out a JLS tune at the bottom of the post to see what these influences have turned out.
1. Moms Record Collection
I played with the records a lot when I was a kid, often leading to me
running around the house with my mom chasing me after I ruined a vinyl piece
with scratching haha. Lots of soul, reggae, jazz and funk was inside my moms
crate, and also a lot of Kawina records (a hi-speed percussion based style from
my native country Surinam), Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley,
Roy Ayers(!) Motown
compilations Stevie Wonder etc etc. The one that I really loved back then was
Curtis Mayfield's "Roots" album.
Download 01_we_got_to_have_peace.mp3
2.
Radio Patapoe A Pirate station in Amsterdam that played the nicest
tunes. I remember making tapes with my first deck of all the songs they played(I
was..pff 10/12 at the time so this was 90/92. Lots of dub from perry and king
tubby that made me fall in love with the low bass sound, you know the one you
feel in your gut when played loud :) also recorded lots of house and
experimental beats at the time.
3.Ice Cube -Lethal Injection
Young kid looks up to cooler older nephew
who rocks mad ice, had cool car posters and a gangsta cd-collection that was
crazy!! still listen to Ghetto Bird a lot.
Download 02_ghetto_bird.mp3
3. Yuzo Koshiro - Streets Of Rage 2 Soundtrack (sega)
Why select a
videogame soundtrack you ask? Well when I was 13 me and my little brother saved
up all my money for the 16-bit revolutionary device "sega megadrive" and one of
the first games whe bought was Streets Of Rage II a very good beat'm up game,
but the thing I remember the most: The soundtrack! heavily influenced by the
rave sound from the 90's, Koshiro made tracks that me and my brother danced on
with the option screen on till 3 am in the morning.
One of the reason why I
started looking for that house and jungle sound and investigating what you could
find on vinyl and cd! . Thanks Yuzo!!
Download spin_on_the_bridge.mp3
4.Leviticus - Burial
With another kid in my class I got obsessed with
the jungle sound from the uk, probably because of the low basses and hi-speed
percussion (kawina!!) can't remember a lot of releases from that time (all on
tapes and some cd's I can't find anywhere) but this track really got to me back
then!
Download burial_lovers_rock_mix.mp3
5. Old Dirty Bastard -Brooklyn Zoo (remix? if you could find it, pass it to
me!!)
Hiphop was starting with one of it's first transformations and I
remember listening to a radio show called Dutch Masters, It was and is in my
opinion one of the best radioshows I have ever heard with a great chemistry
between hosts and an amazing tracklists. I remember hearing this song on my tape
deck when I was 14 and it I was a wu fan from that moment on... just as any
other urban kid at the time hahaha
Download 04_brooklyn_zoo.mp3
6. Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
Got this on a tape from a good friend
from the UK and ever since then I was obsessed with a certain sound within
hiphop and started the actual collecting and trying to spin it on decks,
subconciously collecting a lot of j-dilla produced tracks in the process and a
lot of work from the native tongues...essential for my musical upbringing and a
turning point to.
Download 03_drop.mp3
7. Dillinja - Acid Trak
Goldie, Digital, Dillinja and Lemon D really
came with an amazing sound filled with amen breaks and low basses that I fell in
love it. it was funny but the scene splitted in two back then but I loved it
both, I remember dancing on Acid Trak for a very long time. Classic and one of
the reasons that I started dabbling with a sequencer and sampler.
8. Roni Size -Brown Paper Bag.
The other side of the Drum&Bass
spectrum I really liked was more jazz influenced and had a different dynamic
(melodic,warm) in the productions. this is again one of the tracks that kept me
up till late at night and influenced me production wise.
Download 102_brown_paper_bag.mp3
9. Mos Def - Universal Magnetic
Much sentimental value for this one.. It
reminds of a time of going out with my friends, hanging out with girls and
coming back late at night, a great time. Every time this track played I jumped
away from friends moved to the dancefloor and sang the lyrics out loud and
dancing with fellow fans of the song. I think I can spit this one backwards haha
Download 04_universal_magnetic.mp3
10.Dj Krush - Holonic self mega mix
Turning point. I remember hearing
something on the radio that amazed me, beats like I heard on radio Patapoe when
I was young and again amazed: no vocals but still the music creates an instant
visual in your mind. Not knowing who the artist was, I rushed to every music
store to find it, humming the sound to the people from the store, finally
finding this cd, I fell in love with krush his way of producing and composing
and with instrumental hiphop in general. labels such as
ninja tune and
mowax got
my attention since then from a graphical and musical standpoint. Playing the cd
over and over till this very day. And on my funeral.
Cubik note: I couldn't get a tune from the album mentioned above so I am posting one of my favourites. Sorry JLS.
Download 07_days_end.mp3
11. Richie Hawtin
- DE9 Closer to the edit album.
I was part of a vj-crew called Prime
Meridian back in 97/98. And one of our first sets in Amsterdam in the mazzo was
a techno based night from Estroe. It was a fantastic experience to see our
graphic designs and video on the big screen for the crowd that really liked it
to, I remember being mesmerized by a song that was playing and asking the dj
(can't remember who it was could have been Estroe but whoever it is... THANK
YOU!) what it was. he/she said that it was a Richie Hawtin track from the Closer
to the edit album. Hawtin created an unprecendented mix cd by cutting up 300 12"
in pieces and making one big puzzle piece with it. It's minimalistic approach to
the music really pushed me to look deeper in to the techno sound then I already
did.
12. Basic Channel - The Climax (Carl Craig Basic Reshape)
Like finding
eldorado at the age of 19. big inspiration to me and got me into a lot of labels
in that mindset like Scape, planet E, delsin and many others.
13.
Stones Throw Records.
Big inspiration to me as a label, and one
that has transformed the face of independent hiphop and labels in general in a
very positive way. Always experimenting, always ignoring set rules..and making
new ones in the process, Madlib's amazing array of styles, Peanut Butter Wolf
and Egons managment skills(the amount of work they had to do in the begin stages
had to be crazy) and musical knowhow, Jeff Janks art and design...in short:
heroes. They had a great and tough year this year but I hope that they continue
the way they do.
Download soon_to_be_large.mp3
14. The Little-D Soundlab Roster.
The initial start for me to start a
label was to bring sounds that I really liked and that we're able to translate
the way I thought a label should sound like: trying new things, defying genre
rule sets, fusing older styles and mastering a few. Akida,Jolynn,40 Winks, Nono
And Estroe really do things already with their productions and ideas, and that
really pushes me to do my job a lot better everyday, I don't know what the
future for Little-D will bring but the idea that i'm helping to push the
sounds of these amazingly skilled artists to the world, makes me very
happy.
Now-check out what the sounds above have turned out from JLS in the Little-D Soundlab.
Download Aftersurfdub.mp3
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