40 Winks hail from Antwerp, Belguim and are made up of Padmo and Weedy. They produce 'hip hop with a twist' and they are coming to you as the first installment of a three part Under The Influence
series from the excellent new lablel Little-D.
Cubik note: I love these guys; beats & musical treats for sure. Check out one of their tunes below.
Cheers
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Under the Influcence with...Padmo from 40 Winks
In no particular order, and impossible to complete, some of my influences:
1. The Nonce - Mix Tapes (from the album "World Ultimate" - 1995)
The video for this song is what persuaded me to get my first mixer and turntable.
I recorded the music video off MTV and kept watching it over and over again.
It wasn't just the video though, the simple scratches during the chorus and at the end of the song really made me understand how you use a crossfader to cut and scratch sounds.
This was the start for me to get into turntablism at a later stage. Now scratching is something you'll keep hearing come back in my songs, one way or another.
Download the_noncemix_tapes.mp3
2. Quasimoto - Goodmorning Sunshine (from the album "The Unseen" - 2000)
This album was the first album from Madlib (aka Quasimoto, aka ...) that really showed his wacky/cratedigger/jazzy/collage of soundbites style. I think the song "Goodmorning Sunshine" sums up everything i love about this album. The style of this album really influenced the direction I initially wanted to go with 40 Winks.
Download quasimotogoodmorning_sunshine.mp3
3. Kraftwerk - Computer Love (from the album "Computer World" - 1981)Coming from a hip hop background and being into the sample based side of things,i didn't learn to appreciate electronical music at first. What better way could i have found to get introduced in how it's properly done than by listening to Kraftwerk.
Download kraftwerkcomputer_love.mp3
4. The Roots - 100% Dundee (from the album "Things Fall Apart" - 1999)
The Roots' organic approach to hip hop (heavily influenced by J Dilla) influenced hip hop a lot. I picked this song because it's so out there.
Download the_roots100_dundee.mp3
5. Common - Nag Champa (from the album "Like Water For Choclate" - 2000)
This track is produced by J Dilla. This is just one of his many faces in music.
The way he combines the soft/soulful with the hard/clear drums, perfect.
Download commonnag_champa.mp3
Under The Influcence with....Weedy from 40 Winks.
Tracks that influenced me… here are some that I think of right now. It is not a coincidence that they were all released around ’96 because that’s the time when I started paying more attention to beats and instrumental Hip Hop… enjoy!
A Tribe Called Quest – Beats Rhymes & Life
The Hop
It’s just a small part that they sampled from, but they managed to make a superb track with it… It’s always been my favourite track on the album.. The ummah has real good productions, but this is actually the only track on the album that isn’t produced by them…
Download The_Hop.mp3
The Pharcyde – Labcabincalifornia
Splattitorium
I don’t know how many times I listened to this album… but it ‘s a lot.
Splattitorium is really dope… nicely chopped up by Jay Dee and the various adlibs complete the vibe of the beat.. dope.
Download The_Pharcyde_Splattitorium.mp3
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing…
Midnight in a perfect world
I have always liked instrumentals of raptracks, it’s with this album that I discovered that instrumental hiphop can actually go further than just beats to rap on…
Download Midnight_in_a_perfect_world.mp3
David Shea & Grazzhoppa - Down River Up Stream
Morning Jacks
An album that influenced my beatmaking a lot.. Belgian stuff and bringing instrumental Hip Hop to another level!
Download Morning_jacks.mp3
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And this is what all those influences (and more) deliver in the 40Winks sound.
Download Wakeup.mp3
Hey c'est un grand poste. Je vais envoyer à mes copains. Je suis tombé sur ce tout googler pour certaines paroles, je vais être s?r de revenir. merci pour le partage.
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Posted by: I Declare Samples | May 08, 2008 at 08:42 PM
New 40 Winks album coming soon!
Check the video to get a taste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NioXTSrO2k4
Video "Rap about that (smoke and mirrors)" directed by IWKN (Tokyo, Japan)
From the album "the Lucid Effect" (LP | CD) to be released on Project: Mooncircle May 30th, 2008!
Posted by: 40 Winks | May 04, 2008 at 05:02 PM
that's a sick tune and a nice influence-list you got there
Posted by: arXter | December 23, 2006 at 02:30 PM
Nice one Jason-I've passed this compliment onto 40Winks.
Cheers
Cubik
Posted by: CubikArubik | December 17, 2006 at 04:14 AM
"wake up" is very dope. straight noddin my dome as i right this. peace.
Posted by: Jason | December 17, 2006 at 02:34 AM