Anacron pays tribute to hip hop legends Pete Rock and CL Smooth in celebration of the 20th anniversary of "Mecca And The Soul Brother", with his own interpretation of "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"

The re-imagined track is (re)written, performed, and produced by Anacron; with all live instrumentation (alto saxophone, keyboard, grand piano, bass, percussion, drum kit, drum programming, background vocals, & arrangements) handled by the West Coast underground's proverbial one man band himself.

Written and performed by Anacron
Produced and programmed by Anacron for Manoemusicc Productions
All live instrumentation arranged and played by Anacron
Mixed, recorded, and engineered by Anacron

Inspired by Pete Rock and CL Smooth's "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"
Dedicated to Drew of The World Famous LA Breakers Crew, REST IN PEACE

Dowload via Bandcamp at http://pntg.net/reminiscebc
Liner notes geeks, check out the blog post at http://pntg.net/trodblog
YouTube dorks, check out the audio video at http://pntg.net/trodvid

LYRICS
I reminisce, I reminisce

I reminisce for a spell, or shall I say think back
Hella great things that tell the way we act
Born on the 12th of October
Never smoked, never drank, life-long sober
Over-stated as underrated since the beginning
when in second grade it was stated that I was a musician
From piano to the sax and other woodwinds
Lessons with jazz legends where Inglewood ends
From the vinyl to the tracks and bumpin good blends
Breaking and tagging and banging with my 'hood friends
I was about that life for more than a minute
Even though my parents raised me different, I was in it
Irresponsible, plain not thinking
Peers and constables, years of obstacles
Finally hurdled and liquidated like Squirtle
when I verbally murdered derkles, underground never commercial
I make music because music made me
It seems you all forgot the value of it lately
Appreciation is missing, so I'm on a mission
To help you see it glisten when you close your eyes and listen
Positive over negative, gotta let it live
before it dies - that's a lesson in rhetoric
De ja vu, still the crew gets hella blue
when they reminisce over Drew
Good lord

I reminisce, I reminisce
Reminisce

Anacron - They Reminisce Over Drew (T.R.O.D.)

Black Infamous Radio , תוכנית מס' 22 שבה אציין אלבומים חשובים שיצאו בינואר : 
Gang Starr - Step In The Arena - January 1991
DJ Quik - Quik Is The Name - January 1991 
The Roots - Do You Want More?!!!??! - January 1994 , Happy Birthday Questlove 😀💯🎶
וכמובן אחד האלבומים האהובים עליי שיצא כאלבום הבכורה שלהם וזכה לאלבום זהב בינואר 1996 ע"י RIAA  :
 "People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths of Rhythm" - A Tribe Called Quest 
בין היתר נציין יומולדת 51 לAhmir "Questlove" Thompson מתופף ומייסד הרכב ההיפ הופ , "The Roots" , יומולדת 54 לשחקן\ראפר LL Cool J , יומולדת 57 ל Slick Rick , 9th Wonder שחוגג השבוע 47 . 
וגם שירים חדשים ומעניינים שכוללים את Joey Badass שהוציא שיר חדש וחוגג 27, השמעת בכורה לשיר חדש של Mary J Blige שמארחת את Dave East , מתוך האלבום החדש שיצא בחודש הקרוב ונציין את זכרה של Aaliyah , שיכלה להיות היום בת 43 . 
🎶🎶🎶💯📻 
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Playlist : 

DJ Quik - Quik's Groove 

DJ Quik - I Got The Feelin'

A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It

Gangstarr - Step In The Arena

Slick Rick - Hey Young World

LL Cool J , Total - Loungin' (Who Do Ya Luv)

A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebaum

AZ , 2 Chainz - Motorola Era (Produced By DJ Premier)

Joey Bada$$ - Let It Breathe

Cordae - Chronicles FT. H.E.R. and Lil Durk

Cordae - Champagne Glasses FT. Freddie Gibbs and Stevie Wonder on Harmonica

The Roots  Mellow My Man

Mary J. Blige - Rent Money (feat. Dave East)

Aaliyah - Rock The Boat

Dinner Party - From My Heart and My Soul (feat. Tank and the Bangas & Phoelix)

Black Infamous Radio - Show No.22

I Got Hip Hop By: Cousin Cam (12-20-2013)
You see this hip hop is the reason I’m alive, we don’t have to have a ceremony or rings for hip hop to be my wife, all I know is our bond is way too tight, like the cun of someone who lived a nun’s life, or the bond of a man with his tool in his hand, ready to take aim at any job he can, just to feed his children or be able to pay rent again, you don’t know tight until your money’s been tight, so I turn on my music to make it seem alright, “It Was All a Dream” to “Keep Yo Head Up” while making it through the dark night, and the bad times, Pac saved my life when he dropped his rhymes, now I’m giving it back to hip hop one song at a time, they say hip hop is dead that it’s flat line, when all it needs is a stronger lifeline, maybe an inhaler, cause I hear her, sounding a bit too Weezy, but she isn’t “Ready to Die” this evening, no she has not stopped breathing, she will not go gently into that good night, cue Michael Buffer, she’s ready to rumble and down to fight.
(Hook) Every time I sense defeat I got hip hop. Even through my victories I got hip hop.
You see this hip hop music is in my veins, “Smile For Me Now” through all the “Joy and Pain,” Every time KRS rocked the microphone it was like an underground railroad to our soul, it was Michelangelo painting the Sistine when Rakim spit the illest 16, we fought for our right to let the Beastie Boys “No Sleep Til Brooklyn” while P.E. started to “Bring The noise,” we can’t forget about the OG’s out in the west, now e’rybody and they momma gotta wear a vest, you see “Today was a Good Day,” so we stopped to see the sunshine, we stopped to see the sunrays, but our mind was playing tricks on us cause those Geto Boys are never too far behind, this life is Too $hort to get caught on the firing line of a TechN9ne, today’s Youngbucks would rather shoot em up than put em up,  they don’t wanna fight so “Hot Ones Echo Through the Ghetto” all day and night, “Who Shot Ya,” “It’s Going Down Tonight” “Check Yo’self Before You Wreck Yo’self” in this “Thug Life,” They “Ready to Die” before taking their first breath, this isn’t The Game they are playing and there’s no guarantee of “Life After Death,” so they should “Step Back” to the lab and start “Thinking of a Masterplan,” to put the gun down and pick a book up, you think Pac lost his life for you to make music that sucks, what about “The Message” what about our fellow man, how we gonna make it to two-thousand-----twenty if nobody’s giving a crap about anything but Cash Money, no hope, no dreams, no music education, America’s poor still on a plantation.
(Hook) Every time I sense defeat I got hip hop. Even through my victories I got hip hop.
You see this hip hop is my heart and my soul, I’m gonna love this hip hop til I’m dead and cold, when I’m gone “Pour out a Lil Liquor” for the days of old, but please never let my story die or go untold, cause I got too much to say in this day and age, of “Bling Bling,” expensive cars, and gun rage, it’s time we “Walk this Way” and take the next step, conscious hip hop of the 90’s was ‘So So Def’, now what’s left? Yall should be Outkast, for putting salt on what was built in hip hop’s past, by true MC’s and thas something that you’ll never be, we don’t care about your house, cars or diamond rings, please tell us who’s doing the oppressing, so we can unite, revolt and finally start progressing, on a higher level, on another plain, it’s on you to be a true “Microphone Fiend.”

Cousin Cam -- I Got Hip Hop

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Regenesi

I put this beat together in 2007, with a few MCs in mind who I thought could rap over the track. In the end no one got back to me, but what-evs I say, it stands on its own in my mind. But if you're a budding M.I.A., Missy Elliot or Rakim, well download this track and get back to me with a remix!

Sources:

- The main groove comes from from "Summer in the City" by Quincy Jones, from the 1973 album You've Got it Bad Girl (organ player: Eddie Louis). This riff has been sampled quite a few times by other artists, notably the Pharcyde on their track "Passin' Me By" from 1992's Bizarre Ride II, and Nightmares On Wax's track "Night's Introlude" from 1995's Smokers Delight. I actually played this riff on my own Hammond organ in my home studio, with a Leslie speaker that I purchased through Craigslist. The riff came to me as I heard the sound of my organ transformed once plugged through the Leslie -- it was as though interacting with the technology raised a sonic memory for me. I figured out the riff on the keys, not really sure where I was remembering it from. I used to work at a hair salon in Montreal called Coupe Bizzarre. I answered the phone and took appointments. I was also in charge of choosing what CDs to play on our in house system (a practice that is now illegal, but this is another copyright story….). Smokers' Delight by "Nightmares on Wax" was one of my favorites, and track 1 ("Nights Introlude ") of this 1995 album uses the Jones sample extensively. I had never heard the original Quincy Jones track before acquiring the CD re-issue of You've Got it Bad Girl this past June (2009).

- The "wind" sound comes from an Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesizer that I found at the Écocentre de La Petite-Patrie 1100 rue des Carrières, Montreal, which is a place that I also find tons of records, including others used on this album. Residents of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie are required to bring scraps from demolitions to this location, along with all household hazardous goods. This includes batteries, CRT televisions, vinyl records and lots of other goodies, including the occasional piece of vintage audio gear, such as the ESQ-1, and the odd Electronic Organ (Hammond, Yamaha, etc…sometimes with early Roland drum machines attached!).

- The first vocal sample, I have to admit, comes from a record that I have misplaced. I've looked, I swear. The singer is named Demis Roussos. The song was a minor international hit for him -- "Goodbye my love, goodbye." Roussos was once a member of a band called "Aphrodite's child" in the 60's. "Goodbye my love, goodbye" seems to have been released by Roussos on a solo album in the early 70s, but I can't find reliable information. Those reading though the notes provided with each track on this album will recognize this is a common problem for me, but I'm working on my record keeping practices, and promise to update this site as I find the records I have lost in my collection.

- The drums were played by myself in my basement, sampled, cleaned-up, layered, looped and delayed. I started playing the drums 2+ years ago because I was starting to get tired of searching for perfect drum breaks within my record collection. Perhaps this also has something to do with its increasingly unmanageable size in terms of record quantity….

- The kind of squiggly synthesizer motif was something I played on the ESQ, recording the riff in MIDI on my computer, editing and quantizing the elements, and then sending it back to the ESQ as a loop. The ESQ doesn't have many pre-set sounds that I like, but this is definitely one of them.

- The "Come to Me" sample, like Roussos, also came from a disco record I purchased at the Écocentre de La Petite-Patrie. But I can't find this record either. In trying to remember, I thought the sample was Diana Ross - but I was wrong (I had this feeling all along). Having some 2000 records in my collection, many that I have not even listened to yet, not to mention the 45s! --I had to search for the lyrics on Google - and then I found / remembered that it was France Joli's disco track "Come to Me" that I had sampled while working on the track 2 years ago. In "googling" her, I found out that she is from Montreal! The song was released in 1979 - her official website - http://francejoli.com. Born in 1963 - she was 16 when the single went to #1 on the Billboard disco charts. It's an excellent song, super catchy, and definitely worth listening to in its entirety. I passed the sample through a "cosmonaut voice" filter, which is what makes it sound "walkie-talkie-like".

- The arpeggiated synth sound comes also from a preset sound on the Ensoniq ESQ. I played the riff live, edited and quantized the MIDI notes, and then played it back to the synth, running the audio output though two Moogerfooger pedals - an analog delay combined with a ring modulator. I may also have used a Moogerfooger Freqbox as well, but I can't remember now.

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