This is a mix of what I consider our heritage. It's an almost forgotten 70's era of incredible good jazz and fusion made in Belgium by musical geniuses. The most famous artist in that genre was probably Marc Moulin, who was known outside of Belgium for his more recent releases on Blue Note. But in the early seventies Marc Moulin founded a jazz fusion band, Placebo. Kirk Degiorgio signed the band on his label Counterpoint by insisting on the relevance and visionary side of the group. Another artist who's been sampled by the greatest is René Costy. A violin player with a successful career which ended - from what I heard - with a job on Belgian television as a composer. He has an enormous amount of library songs - over 400 - and in different genres. Huge catalogue but the most notable song was probably "Scrabble" on Chappell International (part of Universal Music) which was sampled by the late Jay Dee aka J Dilla for his classic hip hop record "fuck the police".
