GAIA LIVE MIXES. MASTERS AT WORK - PART 5

The next tune that I remember from that mix was this classic. I recognized the sample in the beginning, as I heard it on various Hip Hop records, but I didn't know yet that for years and years this tune was mistakenly played by generations of DJ's at 33 1/3 rpm instead of 45 - just like it's presented here. However, as I look back, I can clearly see, how this tune was at the beginning of the tiny route that lead me to all the switched-on psychedelic grooves that I've been into recently.

GAIA LIVE MIXES. MASTERS AT WORK - PART 4

As I'm going further through recalling all those tunes that I heard for the first time that hot summer night on 1999, I realize that after all this was just a 1+ hour mix, but every tune, every short segment on it was an exciting discovery. And it's amazing how the influence of these tunes extended further in my life.

I already had my favorite kind of hip hop - Shadow, Vadim, Cam, Krush, Blackalicious, Wiseguys. But when after an array of rare grooves this tune came up, it was a whole new thing - I never heard a rap beat like that before: clean vocal group loop, minimalistic drums and claps and a smooth flow. It was like the purest street beat music.

And again, it would take me a few more years, before I'd discover the names behind this tune...

GAIA LIVE MIXES. MASTERS AT WORK - PART 3

It took me many years until I realized the connection between this bossa tune and one of my favorite rap tunes. But when I first heard it, I still didn't know it was sampled, and it seemed a bit strange (but somehow organically connected) that after the frist two vocal lines of the tune by The Bubble Gum Machine, this tune came up and, unlike 15 different short segments before, they played it ENTIRELY. I was't yet into Brazilian music - I only liked some classic Jobim stuff and liked the way Clifford Gilberto was sampling it. But for many years I was looking for this anonymous tune. Today, after I learned about Tropicalia and the whole following generation of creative artists of the 1970's, classic bossa nova has become less interesting for me, but this song will always remain amongst the few that I really love.

GAIA LIVE MIXES. MASTERS AT WORK - PART 2

Another tune I remember from the beginning of Masters at Work mix is this one. A couple of years later I suddenly heard it covered by a modern band. Another five years later I found the original song on a beautiful pop-sike album. Yet still, the opening of this instrumental easy listening cover twinkles in my head as a memory glimpse of that long August night of 1999.