You know what you don't get during Blog-achella when we're being all current and hip and whatnot? Them classic Funk jawns... That picture you are looking at is one of the Holy Grails of crate-digging, the one and only record by East Coast funk group Skull Snaps ... which by the way, awesome band name. This one goes for hundreds on original vinyl (if you can find it) but has been reissued recently by our good friends the Japanese. Why is this record such a [...]
Main Source: Just Hangin' Out From: Breaking Atoms [Capitol, 1991] Gwen McCrae: 90% of Me Is You From: Rockin' Chair [Cat, 1975] Sister Nancy: Bam Bam From: One, Two [Techniques, 1982] Skull Snaps: I Turn My Back On Love From: Skull Snaps [...]
Gangi will be playing their final May residency at Spaceland tonight so we are lifting this interview out of our recent archives. The vinyl version of their album A is almost out and they are already working on the follow-up Gun Show , with a title track that sounds like T. Rex and Funkadelic together in three minutes. They speak here months before when issues of toxic mold were much more on their minds. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
It was a time when hip hop samples came from your parents' record collection. The early nineties was a golden age for beat digging. Producers and rappers in all the big cities were checking for the rare and the unusual, the doper and the dopest. No sample better typifies the period than the Skull Snaps break.
Chuck Berry. Psychedelic Pucho Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers Heat! Prestige : 1968 [Listen] [Buy] Didn't I Do It To You? Skull Snaps Skull Snaps GSF Records : 1973 [Listen] [Buy] You Two Chuck Berry St. Louis to Liverpool Chess : 1964 [Listen] [Buy] Good Music [...]
"Now if you check my pulse it beats Skull Snaps." — Beastie Boys, "Unite" Last month, after Pigeon John graced the stage (more on his performance in a few days, seriously) and before Slick Rick blessed the crowd, everyone in attendance was treated to the funk stylings of the Skull Snaps. Unless your funk catalog runs deep or you're obsessively digging in the crates, you've probably never heard of the Skull Snaps. My funk catalog runs shallow and the last time I checked, my crate digging days were over. [...]
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