Mired knee deep in the televisual episodic meth cooking swamp, a tune sprang forth that got to me. Got to me because it sounds so familiar, but I’m damned if I can give it any context – is the the flow, the rhyme scheme, the riddim? Is it just a throwback to some golden age rap track that’s somewhere in my subconscious? I hadn’t heard of Ana Tijoux or her Chilean Hip-Hop til today, so I’m throwing it open to the expert hive-mind of The ‘Spill for help, please. Killer tune though, with the rolling of the rs and the rolling of the snare.
Cool. Sounds like they may have nicked some of John Barry’s soundtrack to You Only Live Twice?
Maybe it’s this monster of funk I’m thinking of
John Barry is a good call, though I was thinking more Sergio Leone soundtrack.
Sounds like a hip-hop producer let loose with some Calexico mastertapes and Anita-from-West-Side-Story’s grandaughter.
Gosh there’s a lot of John Barry on Spotify.
That’s good. I got a blend of Cypress Hill singing in Spanish, Thievery Corp and Natalia Clavier
This is great Blimpy, It has that Gotan Project feel about it with the dialogue, saying that, the sample could be from anything latin american!
has a feel of Portishead sour times mixed with cibelle… plus daisy age hip hop.
really ace tune.
Try “8 Million Stories” by A Tribe Called Quest. They might not be the original source, but in a world of samples and re-samples “ad nauseum” they’re the ones that sprang to mind first….
http://open.spotify.com/track/0tBlp6zZ4j238CbdXCYy7A
Thanks guys.
Now the only other thing that bothers me is that I like the song but what if whatever she’s rapping about is really awful and mean but I’m oblivious due to the language barrier….
Barry’s right, but wrong film. It’s the intro to From Russia with love, sung by Matt Monro.
I know who Mystery Sample Spotter is! Mystery no more!!
Or maybe it’s an MC Solaar track…
Very clever, Mr. B… lyrics here.
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/1977-1977.html
“I was born one day in June
in the year ’77″
Me too! !