Series: cypher — Theme: Cease and Desist: a one-hour courtroom for borrowed beats. Duration: 1h00m · 11 tracks, fully programmed and narrated on wobuzz radio.
Cease and Desist: a one-hour courtroom for borrowed beats. The cypher hears five testimonies — the rap debut that sampled Led Zeppelin unlicensed, the funk break hip-hop and Daft Punk both took, the soul song two cities' radio tried to ban, the mash-up EMI tried to erase, and the record whose owner died before the verdict — with boom-bap, deep soul, funk strut and live-horns jazz rap between them, sources testifying first.
Tracklist: Beastie Boys — Rhymin & Stealin · Hal "Cornbread" Singer — Malcolm X · Vaughan Mason And Crew — Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll · Kase.O — Trabajos Manuales Aka Geto Boys · Nina Simone — Four Women · Earth, Wind & Fire — Power · Gnarls Barkley — Necromancer · Grover Washington, Jr. — Knucklehead · Otis Redding — Ole Man Trouble … (+2 more)
