Since the 20th anniversary edition of the album was released last year, Paul's Boutique's production work has perhaps finally been rightly accepted as a mind blowing masterpiece.With each track in the album containing samples from at least 6 different tracks, it was definitely one of the many superb hip-hop albums to be released that year. Yet perhaps the brilliance of the production work has been overshadowed by other records that came out in '89 namely De La Soul's 3 Feet High & Rising and Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back.
Happily for us in 2010, the internet is seemingly jam-packed with generous record geeks like Kevin Nottingham who compiled a track-by-track mixtape of all the sample sources used on Paul's Boutique. He also hands them out for free! To give you an idea on the varied original samples utilized by the Dust Brothers (the same DJ duo/producers responsible for Fight Club's OST and Beck's Odelay), here is a list of the samples used on the first track on the album:
Shake Your Rump
- "That's the Joint" by Funky 4 + 1
- "Cut the Cake" by Average White Band
- "8th Wonder" by the Sugar Hill Gang
- "Jazzy Sensation" by Afrika Bambaataa
- "Good Times Bad Times" by Led Zeppelin
- "Dancing Room Only" Harvey Scales
- "Funky Snakefoot" by Alphonze Mouzon
- "Tell Me Something Good" by Ronnie Laws
- "Unity" by Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown
- "Get the Funk Out Ma Face" by The Brothers Johnson
- "6 O'Clock DJ (Let's Rock)", "Born to Love You", & "Yo Yo" by Rose Joyce
- "Super Mellow" by Paul Humphrey, Willie Bobo, Shelly Manne, & Louis Bellson
Get your copy by clicking here! Or alternatively, get a direct link here!
Kevinnottingham.com's Diggin' In Da Crates section also offer many sample source compilations from various other producers/artists. Check em out and happy listening!
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