An amazing spell of great weather has finally broken here in the UK. It has provided the opportunity to work on a new post and get it shared to all like minded music lovers out there in the blogosphere.
There haven't been any hip-hop posts on the blog (apart from the Costello/Roots collaboration, not because I don't like the music, far from it, but mainly due to a lack of high quality bootlegs in my collection. This is one all hip-hop heads should enjoy as well as fans of 70's soul and funk.
Beastie Boys - Saul's Boutique
Original Uploader's Notes:
"The quick and to the point version is this is a collection of instrumental versions of the tracks from the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique album. They were primarily sourced from the vinyl intended to be used for their live tour circa 1989, though that tour did not happen as planned and the vinyl went mostly unused, eventually falling into the hands of collectors.
There are several versions of the instrumentals from Paul's Boutique around, but most are either mp3 sourced or very low quality. Unless there is an official release of these instrumentals, this will probably be the best quality version available, period.
There are some small patches where there were skips and jumps that were unable to be repaired, but you probably won't notice them unless you're really into digging for such detail. Seriously, I think I covered them up pretty good. Also, the name is from Saul's Boutique having been written in sharpie on the label of one of the show vinyls.
This is a project I did with some friends. One of those friends would like to remain anonymous, but they generously provided the raw audio. The other friend is Harvey Cliff, artist and all-around awesome guy, who did the artwork and handled the physical packaging. Myself, I cleaned-up the audio a bit, edited it, sequenced and pseudo-mastered it. We had some professionally manufactured cassettes made that we gave to friends and intend to give copies of to the remaining Beasties and the Dust Brothers.
Lineage: STU > Vinyl > WAV > edited in SoudForge and iZotope RX > foobar2000 FLAC frontend > FLAC
Track list:
01 Ask for Janice, Pt. II
02 Shake Your Rump
03 Johnny Ryall
04 Egg Man
05 High Plains Drifter
06 The Sounds of Science
07 3-Minute Rule
08 Hey Ladies
09 Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
10 Car Thief
11 What Goes Around
12 Shadrach
13 59 Chrystie Street
14 Stop That Train
15 A Year and a Day
16 Hello Brooklyn
17 Dropping Names
18 Lay It on Me
19 Mike on the Mic
20 A.W.O.L.
21 Some Dumb Cop Gave Me Two Tickets Already
LINK
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Notes about the original album released in 1989
"The
Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique was a masterpiece in sampling, and an
album that could never be made in the same way again. Created during the golden
age of sampling – that is, before stricter copyright laws were enforced – it
epitomised the times. Alongside 3 Feet High & Rising by De La Soul
and A Tribe Called Quest’s Low End Theory, Paul’s Boutique marked
a change in hip-hop, towards the D.A.I.S.Y. Age of rap music you could dance
to.
At
the time of its release Paul’s Boutique was a relative commercial dud
for the Beasties, given that the success of Licensed To Ill had taken
the trio from middle-class punk kids to rap poster boys overnight. In Licensed
To Ill the Beastie Boys came to disturb the peace, at least for the white,
middle-American music market Def Jam were looking to break into. They succeeded
in that. “I’m real mad at the Beastie Boys, they definitely messed up a lot of
things for me,” said LL Cool J in a 1987 interview. But the Licensed To Ill
formula was not built to last. You can only play the teenage rebels for so
long.
Anything
from “100 to 300” samples lie within Paul’s Boutique according to one of
its creators, Mike Simpson of The Dust Brothers. With production partner John
King the duo crafted Paul’s Boutique from their LA studio armed with an
MPC and a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of funk, soul, rock, rap, jazz and
everything in-between. For the Beasties, Paul’s Boutique was their
unabashed ode to ’70s funk and bravado, an album as lyrically potent as it was
tongue-in-cheek and one that helped set the tone for rap music throughout the
‘90s."
Paul's Boutique tracklist
To
All the Girls
Shake
Your Rump
Johnny
Ryall
Egg
Man
High
Plains Drifter
The
Sounds of Science
3-Minute
Rule
Hey
Ladies
5-Piece
Chicken Dinner
Looking
Down the Barrel of a Gun
Car
Thief
What
Comes Around
Shadrach
Ask
for Janice
B-Boy
Bouillabaisse:
a. 59 Chrystie Street
b. Get on the Mic c. Stop That
Train d. A Year and a Day e. Hello Brooklyn f. Dropping Names g. Lay
It on Me h. Mike on the Mic i. A.W.O.L.
The
website ‘Paul’s Boutique Samples and References List’ is the ultimate resource
for the album Paul’s Boutique by the Beastie Boys. It has been compiled through
internet collaboration since about 1993, it stands to document the samples and
references included on the album.
see:
https://paulsboutique.info/
I’ve
included one example for the track ‘Shake Your Rump’ of the kind of information
that is included on the site.
For
further info on all the tracks, including b-sides go to the above website.
track 2.
‘Shake Your Rump’
Sample:
Alphonse Mouzon - ‘Funky Snakefoot’ from Funky Snakefoot (Blue Note, 1974)
As
one of the most underrated breaks in sampling Alphonse Mouzon’s criminally
slept on ‘Funky Snakefoot’ appears only a handful of times in modern day
hip-hop. Although Kris Kross’s ‘I Missed the Bus’ didn’t exactly set the world
alight, the Mouzon break would become the backbone to one of the Beastie’s most
recognisable party anthems ‘Shake Your Rump’.
- The
main drum roll is from “Funky Snakefoot” by Alphonze Mouzon from the 1973 album
“Funky Snakefoot”
- Beat
is Harvey Scales’s “Dancing Room Only” from the 1979 album Hot Foot (A Funque
Dizco Opera)
- Additional
beats from “Super Mellow” by Paul Humphrey from the album "The Drum
Suite"
- "Shake
Your Rump-ah" - from the Unity album by James Brown and Afrika Bambaataa
- Mostly
taken from the "Car Wash" soundtrack by Rose Royce
- "It's
the Joint" - song of same title by Funky 4+1
- Bong
hit
- ‘Scratch’
heard under "the most packinest", "your belief, chief" and
at the end - "Could you be Loved" by Bob Marley
- "Hoo-ha!
Got them all in check." - "8th Wonder" by The Sugarhill Gang
- Afrika
Bambaataa’s, "Jazzy Sensation"
- Ronnie
Laws, "Tell Me Something Good"
- The
sound similar to a straw being pulled through a soft drink lid is an African
percussion instrument known as a "cuica" (kwee-kuh). The instrument
was originally used in Africa for lion hunting because the sound produced is
very similar to a female lion’s roar, thus attracting the male. The cuica’s
sound is produced by pulling and pushing a wet cloth on the bamboo stick.
- The
disco call is from Foxy’s "Get Off"
- After
the chorus phrase "Shake Your Rump-a" there is a drum break with
synth. The first two run throughs, right before the rap starts again,
- The
concluding drum fill is from "Good Time Bad Times" by Led Zeppelin.
