Soulbrotha Feat. Branesparker – Those Was The Days (Collectors Item)

Photo: Branesparker and Large Pro In the studio

RAP-N-BLUES.com hooked up with DJ 12Finger Dan and DJ B-Base, the producers behind the Boom Bap Masterpiece Collector’s Item. They wanted to share a little bit of their perspective on the album and what made them do it, the way it has been done. Listen to every track, spiced up with a little anecdote.

(Text by 12Finger Dan)

„Those Was The Days“ Feat. Branesparker

After this fabulous skit we got into a nice mellow track which on that album is one of my favourite joints. I´m digging pitched soul samples so much and basically this beat is damn old. So if you think that Wu-Tang or Kanye West came up with pitched soul samples first than I really doubt it LOL!

I spiced it up with a new drum set, a new bassline and a sax-sample from Clifford Brown. I also added a lot of swing to the drums on my SP1200 so that it has that typical shuffle-flava which I really dig.

I don´t like if the drum programming sounds to straight, so do me a favor and explore the swing-button in your drum machine everybody LOL. And of course you can hear the crackles from the wax that I love to death! I hate too clean sounds. Leave a bit of crackles in the samples and you will feel the difference ya heeeeeaaard!

At least I added some cuts in the intro, chorus and outro. I found these very quickly, I guess they were on the first or second a capella that I had listened to. So the track was done very fast. To me Branesparker is one of a kind. His flow and his voice is from another world. And his production style is crazy! He is a beast on the mic and on the chops!

Your’s truly, DJ 12 Finger Dan

Other issues:

01. Intro feat. DJ Premier
02. Get Some feat. Craig G
03. Skit A feat. DJ Red Alert
04. Original Rap feat. Nut-Rageous, Q & Butta Verses & „Skit A“ feat. DJ Red Alert
05. It s A Setup feat. Rebels To The Grain
06. Nuts & Screws feat. Blaq Poet, Nut Rageous, Butta Verses & Q
07. The Rebirth feat. Dashah
08. Skit B feat. Edaye
09. Are You Ready feat. Sadat X, Craig G, Nut Rageous
10. Skit C feat. Branesparker
11. Those Was The Days Feat. Branesparker (Of Freestyle Professors)
12. Too Many Emcees feat. Tony Tigerstyle
13. Skit D feat. DJ Skeme Richards
14. Micfight Feat. Mykill Miers
15. Won’t Stop Feat. Finsta
16. Skit E Feat. Cee Da Cuban
17. The Foundation We Lay feat. Kev Brown, Len Short & Reks

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