Funky Disco Please! for Absolute Bassline

Sample Stories - Episode 14

Klique - I Can’t Shake This Feeling // Grum - Can't Shake This Feeling

Klique are best known for their 1983 cover of Jackie Wilson’s 1960 hit Stop Dogging Me Aroung, atlhough they did some pretty nice other tunes. I Can’t Shake This Feeling (1982) is one of these, and if you’re curious you can give Inside Me a listen as well!

It turns out that the English nu-disco / retrofuture producer Grum (Heartbeats) released a brilliant revisited version of this track in 2010. We were really impressed about how the man managed to renew these old vibes to make it enjoyable to today kids (and to ourselves as well!)

Here’s a link to Grum’s version video. Definitely worth watching if you ask!

Herb Alpert - Rise // Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize

Sample Stories - Episode 13

Like most hip-hop tracks, The Notorious B.I.G.'s ones are essentially based on samples. Although thanks to Puff Daddy's talent, the sampling work have always been brillantly done in every single track.

For example Juicy is based - as you might know - on MTUME's 1979 track: Juicy Fruit. If you wish to know more about these two tracks, you can check this other Sample Stories post we wrote within the framework of our collaboration with Absolute Bassline.

Anyway, we don't know whether you reckognized it or not, but the track you're listening to was used to create Biggie's 1996 bomb: Hypnotize.

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Sample Stories – Episode 11

S.O.S Band – Just Be Good To Me // Okain – House Be Good To Me

The really smooth track you’re listening to is the A side of Lezar Records’s first release that came out in 2009. You might have reckognized Deborah Cox's voice since the track is an edit of her 1996 gem : Just Be Good To Me.

Although the true original is not Deborah Cox’s version, it's S.O.S Band’s 1983 hit : Just Be Good To Me that was written by the two brilliant Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam.

When it comes to partying though, Okain’s version definitely is the best one. Giving this video a quick look will surely help you to get what we're talking about. It was recorded at one of the very unique CONCRETE parties that are thrown in Paris (that was called TWSTED when the video was recorded).

Feel that party vibe?