Music referenced in this episode:
De La Soul - "Eye Know" (1989)
Mad Lads - "Make This Young Lady Mine" (1969)
Lee Dorsey - "Get Out Of My Life, Woman" (1967)
Sly and the Family Stone - "Sing a Simple Song" (1969)
Steely Dan - "Peg" (1977)
Otis Redding - "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" (1967)
Hear a DJ-style mix I made of these tracks:
Read more about Philip Tagg’s concept of “one-chord changes”.
Read more about digital audio bit depth.
Read an interview with Deborah Mannis-Gardner, the sample clearance expert who worked with De La Soul on getting everything in “Eye Know” cleared.
Small correction: when I say “sampling error”, I mean quantization error. Also, at 14:44, I say that two to the tenth power is 1,048 rather than 1,024. My bad.
Learn more about “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of The Bay” in my episode on the song.
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