Rewind: Metal Fingers 'Special Herbs Vol. 1 and 2' (Part 2)

Welcome to our second look at Metal Fingers' 'Special Herbs Vol. 1 and 2'.

'Nettle Leaves' contains a sample of the ever-present 'It's a New Day' break by Skull Snaps in addition to a sample of 'Eastern Market' by Yusef Lateef from his 1969 album 'Yusef Lateef's Detroit'. Dumile peppers 'Mugwort' with a sample from Coke Escovedo's 'Hangin' On'. Doom's 'Lovage' takes a sample from Faze-O's late 70s album 'Riding High' and the track 'True Love'. Finally, 'Myrrh' contains bits of Ronnie Laws' 'Friends and Strangers' from the 1977 album of the same name.

'Special Herbs Vol. 1 and 2' are followed by eight more volumes of instrumentals from MF Doom as Metal Fingers. Future posts on this blog will cover more Doom and more Special Herbs collections.

The Lowdown:
Metal Fingers 'Nettle Leaves', 'Mugwort', 'Lovage', and 'Myrrh'
from 'Special Herbs Vol. 1 and 2' (2002) (MP3/CD)
Skull Snaps 'It's a New Day'
from 'Skull Snaps' (1973) (MP3 not available/Import CD)
Yusef Lateef 'Eastern Market'
from 'Yusef Lateef's Detroit' (1969) (MP3/CD)
Coke Escovedo 'Hangin' On'
from 'Comin at Ya'' (1976) (MP3 not available/CD not available)
Faze-O 'True Love'
from 'Riding High' (1977) (MP3 not available/CD not available)
Ronnie Laws 'Friends and Strangers'
from 'Friends and Strangers' (1977) (MP3 not available/CD not available)

Related Posts:
Five On It: November 2008's Essentials (More on Skull Snaps)

Rewind: Quasimoto 'The Unseen' (Part 3)

The final post in this blog's coverage of Quasimoto's 'The Unseen' catalogs the samples used by Madlib on the sampledelic track 'Return of the Loop Digga'.

Two David Axelrod produced tracks are used on 'Loop Digga'. Axelrod's debut solo album 'Songs of Innocence' is the source of the open breaks and bass line of 'Holy Thursday', which has been used often since the late 90s. Axelrod also produced the fourth album for the Electric Prunes, the psychedelic rock 'Release of an Oath' (with one of the greatest album covers of all time in my opinion - it's pictured above). 'Holy are You' is one of the album's many fantastic tracks.

Eugene McDaniels' bat-s--- crazy album 'Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse' is notorious for both it's bizarre, paranoid political stance and its palpable funkiness. 'Loop Digga' uses a bit of McDaniels' 'Supermarket Blues'. The Impressions' soundtrack for the blaxploitation film 'Three the Hard Way' supplies one of 'Loop Digga''s other samples: 'On the Move'. Finally, 'Tidal Wave' by Ronnie Laws was also one of the sources plundered for this track.

Be on the look out for more Madlib related posts including a look at the samples on 'Soundpieces' by Lootpack.

The Lowdown:
Quasimoto 'Return of the Loop Digga'
from 'The Unseen' (2000) (MP3/CD)
David Axelrod 'Holy Thursday'
from 'Songs of Innocence' (1968) (MP3 not available/CD not available)
Electric Prunes 'Holy are You'
from 'Release of an Oath' (1968) (MP3/CD)
Eugene McDaniels 'Supermarket Blues'
from 'Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse' (1970) (MP3/CD)
The Impressions 'On the Move'
from 'Three the Hard Way' (1975) (MP3/CD)
Ronnie Laws 'Tidal Wave'
from 'Pressure Sensitive' (1975) (MP3/CD)