Saint48: Serving The Masses

Monday, February 16, 2009

Stevo - Muffins (Dilla Tribute)

Get It Here

01. Intro

02. Afternoon

03. Can I

04. Dreams

05. 1965

06. Interlude

07. Just A Friend

08. Love Thing

09. Step Up

10. Get Twisted

11. Just Because

12. Fall In Love

13. So Far To Go For Dilla

14. Memories

15. Foreign Love

16. Cry

17. Midnight

18. Never Forget U

19. Outro

"It was near the end of summer 2005, and James Yancey was sitting in a

hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.

He couldn’t walk. He could barely talk. And after spending most of the

winter and spring in the hospital, receiving treatment for a rare, life-threatening

blood disease and other complications, he had been re-admitted.

His body was killing him, and little could be done about it.

It was a grim prognosis, but it wasn’t deterring him from tinkering

with his electronic drum machine.

In the sterile white hospital room, the tools of his trade surrounded

him: turntables, headphones, crates of records, a sampler, his drum machine and a computer, stuff his mother and friends from L.A.-based record label Stones Throw had lugged to his hospital room. Sometimes his doctor would listen to the beats through Yancey’s headphones, getting a hip-hop education from one of the best in the business.

Yancey tampered with his equipment until his hands swelled so much he could barely move them. When the pain was too intense, he’d take a break. His mother massaged his fingertips until the bones stopped aching.

Then he’d go back to work. Sometimes he’d wake her up in the middle

of the night, asking to be moved from his bed to a nearby reclining chair

so he could layer more hard-hitting beats atop spacey synths or other

sampled sounds, his creations stored on computer. Yancey told his doctor he was proud of the work, and that all he wanted to do was finish the album.

Before September ended, he’d completed all but two songs for “Donuts,” a disc that hit stores on Feb. 7, his 32nd birthday.

Three days after its release, he died.

written by Kelly Carter Detroit Free Press February 25, 2006

J Dilla is the one of the greatest beatmakers of all time..his music is a

big inspiration for me..i’m thankful for every piece he has given to

us..

So i took this strong influence and did a beattape called muffins, mainly according to dillas legandary donuts album. You will recognize some samples dilla also worked with.."