Series: cypher — Theme: Marcus after midnight: Guru's Jazzmatazz ledger — the man who put sampled players in the studio and the joke-title that ended the series — then sample-culture receipts the other direction: the J.B.'s with spoken ghosts dubbed over funk, Yorkshire session players whose organ riff got retold as Detroit soul, Innervisions opening its snares, and nine shots counted out in a Queens skit. Duration: 59m · 12 tracks, fully programmed and narrated on wobuzz radio.
Marcus after midnight: Guru's Jazzmatazz ledger — the man who put sampled players in the studio and the joke-title that ended the series — then sample-culture receipts the other direction: the J.B.'s with spoken ghosts dubbed over funk, Yorkshire session players whose organ riff got retold as Detroit soul, Innervisions opening its snares, and nine shots counted out in a Queens skit. The records that hip-hop cites, and the records that cite hip-hop back.
