Thread: June Chop Shop Contest - Open for Free & Basic Members

Grant Green (1935-1979) was a highly influential, if not critically acclaimed, jazz guitarist who recorded almost 30 albums for the legendary Blue Note label.


Alive! -Grant Green.jpg


His 1970 release “Alive!” featured only 5 tracks, recorded live – but over 37 minutes of hard jazz-funk fusion. The last track - "Down Here on the Ground" - opens with funky horns, keys and hard drums (courtesy of Idris Muhammad, an accomplished artist and sample source in his own right) before leading into an extended guitar solo. This track later became the main sample in two classic Hip Hop records, A Tribe Called Quest’s “Vibes and Stuff”[1] and Cypress Hill’s “Stoned is the Way of The Walk”.[2]

Grant Green's Down Here on The Ground


ATCQ's Vibes & Stuff




Cypress Hill's Stoned is the Way of the Walk


Let's hear DP get busy with this one!
Download "Down Here on The Ground" here: Hulkshare.com Grant Green - Down Here On The Ground (Live) (2002 Digital Remas.mp3
Submit your entry to: chopshopcompopen@gmail.com (please include your DP Name)
Deadline: June 30, 2011

[1]Q-Tip, as part of the Ummah production collective with J-Dilla and Ali Shaheed Muhammad,also remixed the song, featuring Dianne Reeves, as part of the 1996 The Blue Note Remix Project Volume 1.

[2]Somewhat appropriate too –as Q-Tip and DJ Muggs are the most criminally under-appreciated geniuses of the era in my opinion.

Here are the beats submitted for June's contest, good job everyone:

Grimes


Nelac


Rakdamunsta


Jesus Velazquez

Congrats to the Winner of the June Chop Shop Contest: Rakdamunsta!