Shawn Lee – ‘Marimba’, taken from the album ‘Golden Age Against The Machine’. A living audio love letter to the golden age of hip-hop. This spans the early 80’s to the mid 90’s.
Shawn takes up the story “Like many other musicians, sample based production effected me deeply. It permeated the how and what i played. The sonic qualities of my productions, the arrangements and my drumming… hip-hop at its best was raw and unconventional…. there is something magical about grabbing a loop from an old funk record and layering it with some strings from an easy listening record and pitching down a horn stab from a jazz record and a guitar lick from pysch rock record …. and then pinning it down with a fat beat”
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