This is my thirty-eighth entry in The Producers Corner "sample challenge", where everyone is given the same source music from which to sample, and the results are diverse and entertaining. The source this week was Ennio Morricone's 1971 soundtrack for the Sergio Leone spaghetti western "Giù La Testa" (a.k.a. "Duck, You Sucker!" or "A Fistful Of Dynamite"). As the Head2Head sample challenge is still running, I didn't turn my mind to this until I was sure I was satisfied with the H2H entry; and then looking through this I decided to keep things simple and build off of one main filtered loop. ...I then absolutely did NOT keep it simple; using about ten different samples and snippets from the source, layering in a couple of additional loops and vocal samples, then adding my own drum programming and vinyl filters to produce a smooth swingy bit of melancholy morriconia. I hope you enjoy the final product, and please everyone stay safe and healthy out there!!!

* This won first place!!! Wow, thanks to António Megård Piteira and the rest of the TPC family!

4 Feet High And Rhyming

The Good, The Bad, and The Funky

The Good, The Bad, and The Funky (TPC Sample Challenge #153)

Old grumpy Sampleholic man from the Kingdom of  Sweden

Philadelphia, Pa Music Producer,  Beatmaker,  Composer, Programmer. I love Old School Hip Hop, (‘80s, ‘90s) and Jazz. Shoutout to The Producer’s Corner! We Bangin Yaw!

I don't like putting music into categories, I just like to create whatever I'm feeling at the moment.

Clay Hammer's music is born of not belonging - to a place, genre or people - and finding it, most acutely, in music.

Southern California desert rat in love with hip hop. Born again Christian struggling to find hope. Small-time farmer incensed at the cowardice of racism. 

And then out come the keys, the bass line, the synth, the melody. And the contradictions come together...

Influenced most heavily by the greats of hip hop, Clay Hammer draws inspiration from all genres and decades.

He can be found listening to Herb Alpert on road trips, folk music to please his wife, and instrumental/lyrical hip hop most days.

For sync and licensing: contact.clay.hammer@gmail.com

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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.