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THERE IS NO "Takes" " you either get it or you don't

4 Feet High And Rhyming

Uncle Old School

If you're a sampling producer, this kind of thing happens inevitably, just hopefully not very often. Sometime back around 2010 I put together this basic musical outline for a song, for TYPE 4 vocalist Tommy O'Deed to write to. I even came up with a sing-song chorus about "nothing". The song never materialized, but thanks to one of my favorite rap groups Atmosphere, we can now all hear something like what that might have sounded like, in their song "Dotted Lines" (https://soundcloud.com/atmosphere-6/dotted-lines). Y'know, if we'd ever finished writing the song, or recorded the song, or for that matter if we were as good as Atmosphere, which is of course a matter of opinion. I have no idea whether they actually sampled the same source as I did, or merely replayed some live guitar in the same style, but I think even Ed Sheeran would recognize there's an undeniable similarity. As for what that possibly shared sample source is? Go fish.

Nothing New

Party Time

Over several years, to 2019, I re-edited Keith LeBlanc's classic "Major Malfunction" album to make it "full length", according to an imaginary concept in my head.

The full story, in gory detail, is here: https://jrbinks.wordpress.com/2019/12/28/major-malfunction-reimagined/

This is the first time I have made this full length, 2hr 16m version publicly available.  A 2hr edit was featured On The Wire in October 2019: https://otwradio.blogspot.com/2019/10/playlist-26th-october-2019.html

What did Keith think of it?  Well I told him I was doing it, he showed some interested and thanked me for asking his permission, but didn't respond when I sent him the final versions and other commentary.  So I don't know ... and now I never will.

In memory of Keith LeBlanc.

Major Malfunction (Re-imagined)

Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction Re-imagined: Version Excursion [Fab Gear]

The sHaPeShIfTeRs - 3rd Pin Torture

Key Dokie

After decades of recording and touring, and many turbulent ups and downs, Bostonians TYPE 4 are still going strong.  They've never let go of that golden age of hip-hop, still digging through vinyl for musical samples, and digging through life for lyrical stories.  Tommy O'Deed, Matt Reyes & Bill Ierardi make hip-hop for grownups, the old fashioned way: for the love of it.

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