writers connection

fonte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL4h90t5UlI

"Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic"; from the album Hot Buttered Soul

Released at the tail end of the '60s, Hot Buttered Soul set the precedent for how soul would evolve in the early '70s, simultaneously establishing Isaac Hayes and the Bar-Kays as major forces within black music. Though not quite as definitive as Black Moses or as well-known as Shaft, Hot Buttered Soul remains an undeniably seminal record; it stretched its songs far beyond the traditional three-to-four-minute industry norm, featured long instrumental stretches where the Bar-Kays stole the spotlight, and it introduced a new, iconic persona for soul with Hayes' tough yet sensual image. With the release of this album, Motown suddenly seemed manufactured and James Brown a bit too theatrical. Surprising many, the album features only four songs. The first, "Walk on By," is an epic 12-minute moment of true perfection, its trademark string-laden intro just dripping with syrupy sentiment, and the thumping mid-tempo drum beat and accompanying bassline instilling a complementary sense of nasty funk to the song; if that isn't enough to make it an amazing song, Hayes' almost painful performance brings yet more feeling to the song, with the guitar's heavy vibrato and the female background singers taking the song to even further heights. The following three songs aren't quite as stunning but are still no doubt impressive: "Hyperbolicsyllabicsequedalymistic" trades in sappy sentiment for straight-ahead funk, highlighted by a stomping piano halfway through the song; "One Woman" is the least epic moment, clocking in at only five minutes, but stands as a straightforward, well-executed love ballad; and finally, there's the infamous 18-minute "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and its lengthy monologue which slowly eases you toward the climactic, almost-orchestral finale, a beautiful way to end one of soul's timeless, landmark albums, the album that transformed Hayes into a lifelong icon.

Your friendly neighborhood THX 1138

Voglio segnalare l'uscita di un libro molto interessante per chi come me è costantemente alla ricerca dei samples usati dai dj e dai producers hip hop: "The Re:Sampling Dictionary 2008", il nuovo dizionario dei samples di Freddy Fresh. Questo libro è la bibbia del sampling (l'arte di campionare un suono con i sampler o campionatori), come recitano le note nella fascetta di carta sulla copertina. Non so dove si possa trovare qui in Italia ma credo che tramite Feltrinelli International sia reperibile. Il libro è molto ben fatto e semplice da consultare ha una grafica accattivante e un formato tascabile molto comodo. Uno strumento fondamentale per tutti i diggers e i dj che ricercano le canzoni originali campionate dai vari produtori Hip Hop e Rap dagli anni '70 ai giorni nostri. Ho trovato il libro a Berlino al negozio HHV.De Selected Store (Hip Hop Vinyl), in Revaler Straße 9 a Friedrichshain, vicino alla stazione ferroviaria di Warschauer Straße.

clicca per ingrandire le immagini (scans: THX 1138)

info:

the art of sampling.txt - testo tratto dal manuale dell'utente della drumachine/sampler E-mu SP1200 (in english) 

http://jklabs.net/projects/samplinghistory/ - The History of Sampling v1.2 

http://the-breaks.com/ - The Breaks, AKA The (Rap) Sample FAQ

http://www.freddyfresh.com/ - Freddy Fresh Official Website

http://www.hhv.de/ - Hip Hop Vinyl a Berlino (attenzione! Il vecchio negozio in Grünberger Str. 54 è chiuso da qualche settimana e si è trasferito al seguente indirizzo: HHV.De Selected Store - Revaler Straße 9 - 10245 Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany - tel: 030 66309803)

Testo tratto dalle note di copertina dell´album di Iceberg Slim "Reflections":

The "BERG" was bad in his younger day

the baddest "dude" come Chicago way...

Every fine "fluff" that caught his eye

could bet some money... she was gonna cry...

The "BERG" was cool... was nobody´s fool

he was KING of the Hustlers play 

and if you were square... you had better beware

Cause the "BERG" took NO JIVIN´ - they say

The "BERG" stayed loose... makin´ planty scratch...

´Til he "horsed" around and met his match...

flyin´ high "The MAN" carried him ´way...

took por´ SLIM to the "Joint" that day...

Por´ ICEBERG SLIM servin´ his time...

with Hustlin´ "REFLECTIONS" on his mind...

A soft... faint... voice - Haunin´ his dreams...

a Familiar voice... his MAMA... it seems...

The "BERG" gotsprung... went to L.A. that night...

Hopin´ to make things with MAMA... alright´...

BUT - "J.C." had made her plans...

and took MAMA on... to the promise lan´...

Head hung low - feelin´ mighty bad...

regrettin´ the time he made MAMA sad...

thinkin´ and wonderin´... ´bout what to do...

So´s MAMA-d´be proud... THEN he knew...

So the "BERG" came back... but with a different game...

usin´ his brain... ´stead-a´ his frame...

He picked up-a´ pen and started to write...

Yeh, the "BERG´s" still COOL...

                    but Now...  the "BERG´s" alright...

Written for Iceberg Slim by Shelby Meadows Ashford

copertina dell´album "Reflections" di Iceberg Slim

Ho trovato questo fantastico album cercando negli scaffali di un negozio di dischi a Berlino, l´ho gia´ ascoltato un paio di volte... Notevole, devo dire... consigliato a tutti quelli che vogliono approfondire il tema "The Naked Soul Of Iceberg Slim". 

link:

A 1972 interview of Iceberg Slim from the Los Angeles Free Press. 
A 1973 interview of Iceberg Slim from the Washington Post. 
An October 1992 article about Iceberg Slim from Esquire Magazine. 
A 1992 article from The Guardian (UK) on Slim's death. 
An undated (probably 1992) article about Slim's life from Cash Box.

Sto scrivendo da Kreuzberg, Berlino. qui ci si diverte parecchio anche in questo periodo dell´anno. ho gia´ trovato molti vinili e un dvd che cercavo da tempo:

Super Seal 2 cover art 

Madlib - Madlib Invazion - 7"

Madlib - Beat Conductor - doppio 12"

artisti vari dall´etichetta Stones Throw - Re:sounds. Volume 1 - box con 7 7"

Scratchy Seal - Super Seal 2 - 12" con skipless tools e beats di dj qbert

The Heliocentrics con Percee P e Doom - Distant Star - 12"

Skratchlopedia Breaktannica - enciclopedia dello scratch su dvd di DJ Qbert

artisti vari - Interstellar Fugitives - triplo lp Underground Resistance

artisti vari - Electronic Warfare 2.0 - doppio lp Underground Resistance

Erykah Badu - DJ Day Remixes - 7"

DJ Aristocat - Forget About The Kasbah - 7" 

adesso sono a casa di un amica che mi ospita (grazie Gaia!)

prossimamente carichero´ le foto scattate a Berlin in questi giorni...

C.U. soon! 

Stamattina ero al mercato delle pulci in piazza de' Ciompi a cercare dischi. C'e' un solo negozietto all'interno del mercato che vende dischi vintage e libri usati. Ultimamente sono andato li tre volte. Non sono male i dischi che si trovano e soprattutto sono molto economici (ma se vuoi spendere ci sono anche dei vinili abbastanza costosi: musica etnica indiana, turca, di Bali, eccetera). Negli scaffali delle offerte ho trovato  questi cinque lp che hanno catalizato la mia attenzione:

Eddie Layton - Organ sounds and percussion - lp (1a stampa Olanda 67 Mercury)

Orchestre Peter Hamilton, Armando Sciascia, Cesco Anselmo - Ciak. Film themes - lp (1a stampa Italia 72 Vedette)

Armando Sciascia Orchestra & Francesco Anselmo - Si gira! Action! ...Camera! - lp (1a stampa Italia 74 Vedete)

Armando Sciascia Orchestra - Hot Film Themes - lp (1a stampa Italia 73 Vedette)

autori vari - Temi famosi da celebri film vol.3 - lp (1a stampa Italia 73 Napoleon)   

clicca sulle immagini per ingrandirle

Devo ancora ascoltarli, ma credo che non rimarro' deluso...

saluti dal vostro affezionatissimo
THX 1138

Le ricerche di oggi al mercatino di Rifredi hanno riportato alla luce queste due perle degli anni 80:

Run D.M.C. - Walk This Way (stampa italiana)

Cameo - Word Up! (stampa italiana) 

clicca per ingrandire

bonus video:

Kings of Diggin' EPK

Diggin' in the crates 

saluti dal vostro affezionatissimo...

THX 1138 

2006: Real Hip Hop Mix - mixed by THX 1138 (2006)

Featuring: Beastie Boys, James Brown, The Jazz Crusaders, The J.B.'s, Afrika Bambaataa & UB40, Zulutronic, Nightmare On Wax, Bootsy Collins, Dudley Perkins, Public Enemy & Paris, Nas, Erick Sermon & Ice Cube, DJ Z-Trip, Grandmaster Caz, A-Trak, Pete Rock, Blastmaster K.R.S.-O.N.E., Alexander Dark Band, Grandmaster Roc Raida, Afrika Bambaataa, Showbiz & A.G., Cinnaman & Jay Scarlett, Mix Master Mike, Ice Cube & The Bomb Squad, Public Enemy, Professor Griff & The Last Asiatic Desciples.

 2006 thx mix.mp3        04-Jul-2008 18:04   49M  

Pannello dipinto da Ninja  

The Underground Rap Mix - mixed by THX 1138 (2006)

Featuring: MF Doom, Spank Rock, Method Man, Juggaknots, DJ Krush & Mos Def, Cut Chemist, De La Soul, Planet asia, Baron Zen, Lord Jamar, Madlib, Viktor Vaughan, Sir Menelik & Kool Keith, J Dilla

ded 2: Miccia, WJM, Gnapgirl, Sweet Sensation, Valeria, JD Zazie, Machisei, Wave, Jimmy, Mat, Craim, Miki, Ogino Knauss, Zino, Sec, OTK, Ken, Gao, Lisa, Eva, Tibe, Fede, Jordan, Meby, Sara, Frankie, Claudio el Mierda, and 2 all the kids! 

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THX's True Skool Mix 2004 - a collection of hardcore rap from the '80s and the '90s (74'49")
Minidisc recording: THX @ Borgunto, Fiesole (FI) summer 2004
MP3 encoding: THX

featuring: George Clinton, Queen Latifah, Ice Cube, Schoolly D, The Fat Boys, Ice-T, LL Cool J, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Booya T.R.I.B.E., Afrika Bambaataa & The Jazzy Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel & Duke Booty, Eric B & Rakim, Spoonie G, Kool Moe Dee, and others...

Un ringraziamento speciale a Wave per avermi prestato tutti gli LP che ho usato nel mix.

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THX 1138

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Oggi al Mercato delle pulci ho trovato vari 45 giri interessanti. Sono tutte stampe italiane (non sono gli originali americani) ma ad un prezzo conveniente a mio parere. Eccovi le scansioni delle copertine (clicca per ingrandire le immagini)

Billy Preston - Outa-space 

James Brown - Sex Machine 

Otis Redding - Dock of the bay 

R.B. Greaves - Take a letter Maria 

Rhythm Heritage - Theme from S.W.A.T. 

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Bad Luck 

Wilson Pickett - Deborah  

crate digging info:

10 Record Digging Secrets.txt - fonte: http://www.cratekings.com/

Secrets of Hip Hop Rap Sample and Breaks Mixtapes.txt - fonte: http://www.cratekings.com/

Basics of Crate Digging.txt - fonte: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Study/9077/cratedigging.html

:)  

Your Friendly Neighborhood... 
THX 1138 

instrumental hip hop / elettronica / rap / funk / 45

rap / funk / instrumental hip hop / punk / hc

rap / rock / psichedelia / ricerche / breaks 

classica / exotica / jazz /rock / punk / hc / pop / italiana /45

classica 

Queste sono le ceste di dischi che ho a casa. Ci ho messo una vita per collezionare questi vinili e non me ne separo mai, in questi ultimi anni ho cambiato indirizzo varie volte e ho dovuto trasportare tutte queste ceste pesantissime almeno una volta all'anno, spesso anche due volte in un anno. Qui sotto ci sono delle foto di 45 giri e 78 giri dalla collezione dei miei genitori. Clicca sulle foto (le immagini sono abbastanza grandi ma la qualità è scarsa) per ingrandirle.

spoken / 78 / 45 / pop italiano / classica

foto: THX 1138 (2008) 

cover art dell'album "Hustler Convention" di Lightnin' Rod 

fonte: http://www.grandfatherofrap.com/hustlers.html

The Hustlers Convention - Jalal Mansur Nuriddin

At the end of the year 1971, I began to write "The Hustler's Convention", because of a need to express the realities of life on the streets. My understanding at that time, was that there were three types of education that a person may or may not receive in their lifetime. The first one was the education that you get at home (providing that you have a home). The second was the education that you get in school (providing that you can afford to go to school). And the third one consisted of the education that you got on the streets (Providing that you lived in a city or small town).

The one at home dealt with one's etiquette (i.e. manner's and hygiene etc) as well as one's language, culture, and genology (i.e. family history and lineage) and the third one consisted of how one relates to other people of all ages, races, religions, cultures, creeds, ideologies, opinions, attitudes, physical and personality characteristics, handicaps, skills, perceptions, occupations and authority. On rare occasions they reconcile, but most often they do not. I wanted to describe the beat on the street, the pulse, the music, the rap, the competition, the peer pressure, the games, the struggles, the trials and tribulations, the fun, the dangers, the daring, the risks, the love and the hate, the sub-culture, the lessons, the posture, the poise, the sounds, the noise, the styles, the attitudes, the psychology, sociology, and ideology, the vibes of the new tribes.

The chills, spills, kills, and sheer wills, the grit and grime, the scuffle, bustle and hustle, on the block, ad hoc, by the time off the clock, between a hard place and a rock, within a state of shock. To the mime of crime, and frame it in rhyme, for once and all time.

And since the Ghetto was where the stage was set, no one including I, could afford to hedge our bet, as I set out to describe this vibe, this life and death in one breath, because it's do or die, or don't do and die quicker so nothing beats a failure but a try, so we had to try and sift through the rabble, and unravel the babble, this obscene surreality, of mangled totality, this sadness, madness, and badness, of in a vain, profane, and insane, abomination of a hopeless situation, that was simultaneously captivating, stimulating, and humiliating, which had gripped, and hipped every ghetto mind to search and find, a way out of this pay-for-all, free-fall.

Living and dying from day to day, in the constant struggle between the predator and prey. But in every jungle, their are certain animals who warn the others when they are about to be attacked, and by their evasive actions, alert the other occupants to the imminent danger.

But what we thought was a concrete jungle, was really a zoo, and we were in it, like it was stew, with no one knowing what to do about it, except burn it down, or get out of town, in order to awaken from the slumber of sleep, snoring to the smell of hell, where only the condemed dwell.

Just to take a bath in this laugh, to inhale the incense of this pretense, and waltz in this false fraud of discord and strife, within the hustler's life.

To hustle means literally to "move fast" to haul ass, and don't be last, as you try to use your mind to save your behind. to deal within a wheel of misfortune. To stake your claim, to play the game, be different and not the same, and choose not to lose no matter what methods you have to use, which is what Malcolm X meant when he said: "By any means necessary."

The main hustler rule is don't blow your cool, cause a fool can't play a wise man, but a wise man can play the fool.

The Hustler's Convention is a masterpiece of street rap, and is considered a classic.

This style of discourse had a long tradition in black american culture, combining elements of African story telling with the rhyming techniques of street corner one-upmanship, know as "Playing the Dozens" and of "Jail Toasts" such as the "Titanic" and "Doriella Du Fontaine" and "The Fall" and "Honky Tonk Bud" and "The Signifying Monkey"and "Death Row"

The Grandfather, under his "moniker" of "Lightnin' Rod" summarizes the rise and fall of the "Hustlers" in this epic ode, which up until this day, had not been equaled. (Stay tuned for the sequel) It was written with the intent that the hustler is the ghetto's primary role model, but in comparision to what he's hustling for, and what he's being hustled out of, there are only two types, the greedy and the needy.

Thus the Grandfather runs it down at the end of this "piece de resistance" by rapping: "I was sentenced to the chair, and shipped to Sing Sing from there, where I spent the next 12 years on death row, but I kept coppin' a stay, until the death penalty was done away, and after a re-trial, they finally let me go. "

It had cost me twelve years of my time, to realize what a nickel and dime, hustler I had really been, while the real hustler's are ripping off billions, from the unsuspecting millions, who are programmed to think they can win. "

But fortunately, I escaped from the deathly fate, of being fried alive in the chair, cause in my solitude I found, out about what's really going down [...]

fonte: http://blaxploitationpride.blogspot.com/2008/01/lightnin-rod-hustlers-convention-1973.html

Lightnin' Rod - Hustlers Convention (1973)

1. Sport
2. Spoon
3. Café Black Rose
4. Brother Hominy Grit
5. Coppin' Some Fronts for the Sets
6. Hamhock's Hall Was Big (And There Was a Whole Lot to Dig!)
7. Bones Fly from Spoon's Hand
8. Break Was So Loud, It Hushed the Crowd
9. Four Bitches Is What I Got
10. Grit's Den
11. Shit Hits the Fan Again
12. Sentenced to the Chair

Great Review From An Anonymous Customer From Amazon

"It was a full moon, in the middle of June, in the summer of '59/ I was young and cool, and shot a bad game of pool, and hustled all the chumps I could find/ Now see they called me Sport, 'cause I pushed the bar short, and loved all the women to death/ I partied hard, and packed a mean rod, and could knock you out with a right or a left/ I had learned to shoot pool, playin' hooky from school, at the tender age of nine/ And by the time I was eleven, I could pad-roll seven, and down your whole quart of wine."

Thus begins the blueprint of hip-hop, Hustler's Convention. Released in 1973, a side project of the black nationalist spoken-word group The Last Poets, and featuring a musical score by none other than Kool & the Gang ..., this album is so hip, it comes with a leg attached.

It tells the story of two slick hustlers, Sport and Spoon (his "ace-boon-poon"), preparing for a huge gathering of every underworld character fathomable: "Now you could feel all the tension building up at the convention, as the hustlers began to arrive/ Musta been 9000 or more that came through the door, the time was 11:55." They pit their skills and street-savvy against the best dice, pool, and card sharks you could ever hope to meet, culminating in a car chase and shoot-out with the cops (complete with great sound-effects). It ends with Sport's jailhouse musings on the structure of society, and how "it had cost me twelve years of my time to see what a nickel and dime hustler I had really been..."

This was a favorite record of the cats we now look back on as the pioneers of rap music. It's been sampled by the Beastie Boys, Steady B., a Tribe Called Quest, Main Source, and the Jungle Brothers, and its atmosphere is what Tarantino wishes he could evoke. I've known sections of it by heart, like my hip-hop forebears, since I was thirteen years old, and it's exciting that this incredible musical treasure is once again available, after being out of print for years. Anyone one who thinks they know anything about hip-hop, but is unaware of this, is delusional, and, as Sport says, "if you ain't down, you best not hang around, 'cause you sure as hell will get beat." 

Jalal Mansur Nuriddin official web site - http://www.grandfatherofrap.com/

collage street art raccolto a Berlino nel 2006

Ded 2: Jimmy - Skuamo - Mat - WJM - JD Zazie - Jo - Ale - Psycho - Kate - Checca e Augusto - Eva - Gauossou - Roberto (R.I.P.) - Claudino - Bozen - Gigi Onazzipac - il Nicotì - Syd - Francesca - Angelo - Martina, Tetano e Demetrio - O'gino-Knauss - Ultracore - il Perso - il Vecchio - Pippino - Clara - Davidino - Mari - Silvietta - Busso - Sally - Ugo - Cristiano - Nancy Fancy & Valeria - Nucreo d'ì Monte Morello - Alessio Stuba - Niccolai Bungalow - ì' Leo - Samantha - Daria - Mayada - Christian W. e Ilaria - Chiara Vampyra e Federico - Gaia, Bernardo e Alberto - Betta, Paolo, Camilla e Tommy - Elisa e Laura - Sara - Gianni - Vladi - Marcelus Wallace - Adamo - Jo La Face - Simona - Cristina - Aldo - Wave - Ernesto - Space - Appe - Master Crab - Crazy Pop - Led - Weis - Adam - Kareem - Tibe - Claudio El Gaucho - Run - Jado - Ken e Lisa - Daniela - Rais - Deks - Ribes - Ninja - Tullo Soulja - RBC - ADR - ATD - WC - JP - Arbus - O'gino Knauss - A.N.D. - Menti Criminali - Long Bridge All Stars - PL/FCE (Bologna) - DJ Gruff - Tayone - Rajstah & Stroboman - E-N.E.E.M. - Burp - Spiral Tribe - Mutoid Waste Company - Okupe - Total Resistence - Facom - Anarko Tanks - Gio - Gabri - Busso - Pippo - Duccio - Giguywassa - Valentina - Valeria F. - Meby e Sara - Ash - Dome La Muerte & the Diggers - Aquila - Fase Quattro - Frankie Frankie - Claudio - Federico F. - Gigi S. - Natalia B. - Andrea B. - Dana e Antonio - Noa - Orlando e Mauro - DJ Craim - Giordano e Viviana - Aria - Cristina - Vortex e Gaia - Zino e Sec - Chiara Sweet Sensation - Simone - Pise - Freddy - Luca G. - Lucille - Molly - Agent - Torped-One - Caravan - Alessio e Sara B. - Flask - Gaia B. e Peter K. - le Vagine Volanti - (and last but not least) tutte le ragazze e tutti i ragazzi del CPA Firenze Sud, dell' Elettro +, del CSA nEXt Emerson, del CSA Indiano, del Bubu 7te, della Jungla, del K100 (Campi Bisenzio), della Riottosa, dell' Asilo Occupato, del Luzzi, del Matticao, di Monte Uliveto, del Cecco Rivolta, di Villa Panico, del MAF, del Livello 57 (Bologna), della Fabbrica Dei Frutti Kanditi, del Macadam (Perugia) e di tutte le realtà antagoniste che ci hanno aiutato e sostenuto in questi ultimi anni

Peace!

Il mix che potete scaricare in questa pagina è stato registrato su cassetta nel 1998, riversato su cd nel 1999 registrato in formato "wav" stereo 8 bit e rieditato in formato mp3 oggi. Jimmy, Skuamo ed io abbiamo registrato il mix un pomeriggio al vecchio cinema Longinottik all'interno dell'ormai scomparso CPA Firenze Sud in viale Giannotti 79. Abbiamo usato 2 cd player gemini e 2 technics SL-1210 mk2. Il missaggio è brutale, grezzo. Il suono è spesso distorto e non esiste un filo conduttore, ma a me personalmente questo mix piace ancora. Buon ascolto!

Featuring: Run-DMC - Dead Kennedys - Gil Scott Heron - Herbie Hancock & DST - Throbbing Gristle - Reservoir Dogs soundtrack - Islamic Diggers - Ricci & Sanna - altre tracce non identificate

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retrocopertina dell'album "Kingdom Blow" - particolare

L' LP di Kurtis Blow "Kingdom Blow" (1a stampa USA 1986 Mercury - numero di catalogo: 422 830-215-1 M-1) mi è stato donato da Wave qualche anno fa (lui ne aveva due copie). Sicuramente è uno dei miei dischi rap preferiti e quindi ho deciso di inserire in questo articolo la grafica della copertina (con Kurtis poggiato alle torri del World Trade Center) e dei file mp3 (mono) tratti da "Street Rock" (primo brano dell'album, in cui compare anche Bob Dylan) e "The Bronx" (secondo brano del lato A). Clicca sulle immagini per ingrandire.

centrino dell'LP "Kingdom Blow" (lato A)

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copertina dell'album "Kingdom Blow" - particolare

retrocopertina dell'album "Kingdom Blow" - particolare

copertina dell'album "Kingdom Blow"

tag di Wave sulla copertina dell'LP

Kurtis Blow insieme a Wave 

bonus loops (formato wav stereo):

Black Caesar soundtrack loops  

 james brown - black caesar - loop1.wav 20-May-2008 11:01  1.6 Mb (stereo) 

 james brown - black caesar - loop2.wav 20-May-2008 11:03  3.2 Mb (stereo) 

Citazione da http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Caesar_%28film%29:

Black Caesar
Theatrical release poster.
Directed by	Larry Cohen
Produced by	Larry Cohen Benjamin Fisz Kenneth Rive
Written by	Larry Cohen
Starring	Fred Williamson Gloria Hendry
Music by	James Brown
Distributed by	American International Pictures
Release date(s)	February 7, 1973
Running time	87 minutes
Language	English
Followed by	Hell Up in Harlem
IMDb profile

Black Caesar is a 1973 blaxploitation film, starring Fred Williamson and Gloria Hendry. The film was written and directed by Larry Cohen. It is a remake of the 1931 film Little Caesar. It features a notable musical score by James Brown (with heavy input from his bandleader Fred Wesley), his first experience of writing music for film. A sequel titled, Hell Up in Harlem was released in late 1973. 

[edit] Cast

• Fred Williamson — Tommy Gibbs
• Gloria Hendry — Helen
• Art Lund — McKinney
• D'Urville Martin — Reverend Rufus
• Julius Harris — Mr. Gibbs
• Minnie Gentry — Mama Gibbs

• Philip Roye — Joe Washington
• William Wellman Jr. — Alfred Coleman
• James Dixon — Bryant
• Val Avery — Cardoza
• Patrick McAllister — Grossfield
• Don Pedro Colley — Crawdaddy
• Myrna Hansen — Virginia Coleman
• Omer Jeffrey — Tommy as a boy
• Mike Anthony Jones — Joe as a boy

[edit] Trivia

• Some of James Brown's songs used in the film were sampled by prominent rap musicians - Das EFX and Ice-T ("The Boss" which is the background music where Tommy Gibbs is shot while crossing a street corner was sampled for Ice-T's "You Played Yourself", and also for Trick Daddy's "Take It To Da House"). More recently, by The Alchemist for Prodigy's currently last album Return of the Mac.

• The film is name-checked in Public Enemy's song "Burn Hollywood Burn", when guest rapper Big Daddy Kane reacts to the abandonment of black culture by Hollywood filmmakers by saying "I got Black Caesar back at the crib." Kane makes another reference to the movie in his song "How U Get A Record Deal".

• According to the DVD commentary, Larry Cohen originally wrote this film with Sammy Davis Jr. in mind for the title role, but after the success of Shaft, the film was retooled for Fred Williamson".

[edit] External links

• Black Caesar at the Internet Movie Database
• Black Caesar at Blaxploitation.com
• Black Caesar at Rotten Tomatoes

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THX -Funkin' Fo Fun Mix- 2007

Ho fatto questo missaggio a Molino dell'Altare l'anno scorso. Ho usato solo vinili. Gli "screccettini" sono miei. La qualità del file non è eccelsa specialmente nell'ultima parte perchè il volume di registrazione era troppo alto. Spero che comunque vi piaccia. Versione mono!

Featuring: Madlib - MF Doom - DJ Mathematics - Beans - DJ Quik - The Jazz Crusaders - Donald Byrd - The Meters - The Jacksons - Wilson Pickett - Eric Burdon & War - Orfeu Negro Original Soundtrack - Parliament - George S. Clinton

 thx -funkin fo' fun ..> - 21 Mb - MP3 MONO - 23' 14"

Clicca sul link per scaricare il file 

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