Scorpio – Mellow Song

Scorpio – Mellow Song (Full Cycle Records, 1996) I dropped a little breadcrumb to today’s post in my previous breakdown of Photek’s ‘Rings Around Saturn’. I mentioned Dr Who Dat?’s Beat Journey LP, which includes a track that uses the same Pharoah Sanders sample as Rupert Parkes’ masterpiece. Produced by Jneiro Jarel, who would later

DJ Hype – Closer To God

DJ Hype – Closer To God (True Playaz, 1998) After yesterday’s post about ‘Straight Jacket’ I couldn’t resist writing about DJ Hype’s ‘Closer To God’, another track featuring a vocal sample also used by DJ Shadow. It was the opening track on Real Vibes, the first album from the True Playaz label formed two years