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Today marks the seeding of the fiftieth and final episode<\/a> of the brilliant Blogariddims<\/a> series, a near-monthly “podcast” with which many readers of w&w no doubt have some passing acquaintance. Indeed, if you’re omnivorous like me, you’ve likely downloaded every one, each time enticed by the loving, careful, idiosyncratic and refreshingly all-over-the-map episodes from some of the most interesting and engaged music bloggers on the ol’ ‘osphere (if I don’t say so myself).<\/p>\n Nuff nuff props to Droid<\/a> for imagineering the whole thing and running a pretty tight ship all the while. It was a pleasure to be involved, and I’m delighted to have been able to contribute to the appropriately motley final episode, which features 11 mini-mixes from former contributors to the series. <\/p>\n As with my previous contribution, Another Crunk Genealogy<\/a> (#11), I couldn’t resist teasing a particular musical thread throughout my mix. In this case, however, rather than letting a suggestive set of rhythmic patterns guide my track selection, here I’ve decided to focus on a particular melody, often — but not always — taking the form of a familiar bassline cutting across (rhythm&)blues, soul, pop, hip-hop, dancehall, jungle, and bubbling, to name a bunch. It’s a surprisingly common riff, suggesting perhaps the naturalness of playing such a thing on an instrument (esp guitar\/bass) rather than some (prolly) specious theory of origins. Many readers\/listeners will know it best via Sly & Robbie’s Bam Bam<\/em> riddim<\/a>, which notably supported, among other hits, the early 90s crossover classic “Murder She Wrote.” Others will be transported back to Otis Redding’s “Tramp” right away. <\/p>\n Although I wouldn’t purport that this is a comprehensive genealogy of any sort, I’ve done my best to bring a number of the more important\/influential tracks to employ this melody, throwing in a few (obscure) curveballs for good measure, and doing my best not to get too hung up on pseudo-genealogical orthodoxy. For the record, I’ve crammed the following 13 tracks into my 7 minutes (no numerology a gwaan, trust me); and while I tease some tracks in and out, the general sequence is as follows —<\/p>\n >><\/strong> Lowell Fulson, “Tramp” I don’t really want to get as prolix here as I did in my notes for “Another Crunk Genealogy.” Suffice to say (and I think you’ll hear) that there are lots of connections ricocheting around in this mini-mega-mix. For one, Lowell Fulson’s “Tramp,” which I tease in and out of the mix, is the track sampled by Muggs for Cypress’s “Kill a Man” — the latter track meshing\/mashing incredibly well with Prince’s “7” (talk about nonsense numerology), a song that — cheese aside — always seemed kind of hardcore (and hip-hop influenced) with that low, 808-y bass playing that line in particular. <\/p>\n To step back for a minute, it’s worth noting that the version of “Tramp” recorded at\/for Stax by Otis & Carla has also been widely sampled by hip-hop producers (though often for its drums rather than bassline). So between those two bluesy hits from 1967, that riff — played both on bass and by horns — was really in the air, both in the late 60s and the early 90s. It turns up in lots of other soul (not to mention rocksteady) and hip-hop tracks, and it’s not that surprising that such open-eared musicians as Sly & Robbie might have nodded to it on their massive production for 1992, the Bam Bam<\/em> riddim. The opening — and recurring — guitar lick on that riddim is pretty clearly (and consonantly) related to the riff from “Tramp,” and though I could have stuck entirely to Bam Bam<\/em> versions\/voicings, I’ve also observed that several other reggae riddims from that time period seem to sample the riddim’s guitar, including the Pitch \/ Fever Pitch<\/a> riddim produced in 1993 by Sly and Gitsy (which supports, among other big chunes<\/a>, Cutty Ranks’s fierce “Limb by Limb”). <\/p>\n Couldn’t resist squeezing another genre into the mix, so I took the opportunity to work in, if briefly, a jungle remix of Cutty’s “Limb” before segueing to, even more briefly (for which you should thank me), a cloyingly cheesy cover of “I Will Always Love You” by Janet Lee Davis (which Droid sent to me via email about a year ago when I was looking into connections between Bam Bam<\/em> and Fever Pitch<\/em>, primarily for my research into early reggaeton history). <\/p>\n I finish with a couple “reggaeton” \/ “underground”<\/a> pistas — c\/o Daddy Playero — both inspired by (and sampling from) the Bam Bam \/ Pitch<\/em> material. Those riddims became major sample sources for proto-reggaeton producers in the early&mid-90s, right alongside the (now better known \/ more synonymous) Dem Bow<\/em>. Likewise, Holland’s bubbling<\/a> scene has fixated on the Bam Bam<\/em> as sample source. Not only are a good number of standard bubbling loops derived from the Bam Bam<\/em>, but I remain totally tickled by the anonymous (to me anyhow) producer who decided to interpolate a couple measures of Bam Bam<\/em> in his MSN messenger remix (which also made an appearance in my full-length<\/a> Blogariddims mix). I drop in this final bit right at the end, ramping up the tempo from a steady 100+ to around 140 before crashing out with a reverbed landing on that original Fulsom guitar chord. Bam is right!<\/p>\n You gotta hear it in context, natch, so gwaan and grab Blogariddims 50<\/a> right now (& maybe the other 49<\/a> while you’re at it). Still, for anyone who wants to hear the mini-mega-mix it on its own, here it is:<\/p>\n >> wayne&wax, “bam bam big!”<\/a> (mini-mega-mix) [16mb \/ 320k]<\/strong> Blogariddims done! Long live Blogariddims!<\/p>\n Here’s the full list of final episode contributors, for those wanting to peruse tracklists and notes and such. Fine company, I have to say —<\/p>\n 0- Droid Intro<\/a> \/fin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today marks the seeding of the fiftieth and final episode of the brilliant Blogariddims series, a near-monthly “podcast” with which many readers of w&w no doubt have some passing acquaintance. 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\n >><\/strong> Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, “Tramp”
\n >><\/strong> Cypress Hill, “How I Could Just Kill a Man”
\n >><\/strong> Prince, “7”
\n >><\/strong> Sly & Robbie, “Bam Bam Riddim”
\n >><\/strong> Chaka Demus & Pliers, “Murder She Wrote”
\n >><\/strong> Cutty Ranks, “A Who Seh Me Dun”
\n >><\/strong> Cutty Ranks, “Limb By Limb” (original + jungle remix by DJ SS)
\n >><\/strong> Janet Lee Davis, “I Will Always Love You”
\n >><\/strong> DJ Playero, “DJ Playero Pistas #7”
\n >><\/strong> DJ Playero, “DJ Playero Pistas #9”
\n >><\/strong> ??, “Bubbling MSN Remix”<\/p>\n
\n [audio:http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/audio\/bam-bam-big.mp3]<\/p>\n
\n1- Autonomic<\/a> (6.01)
\n2- JEPM (eden<\/a> + meme<\/a>) (8:41)
\n3- Matt B<\/a> (6:33)
\n4- Rambler<\/a> (7:09)
\n5- Wayne<\/a> (7:00)
\n6 – Droid<\/a> (7:44)
\n7- Gutta<\/a> (6:02)
\n8- Heatwave<\/a> (6:04)
\n9- Hal<\/a> (8.01)
\n10- Flack<\/a> (6:15)
\n11\u2013 Slug\/Droid outro<\/a><\/p>\n