Before No I.D. became vice president of Def Jam Records,
producer of Jay-Z's 4:44 album, creator of hits for Common, Nas, Ghost face
Killer, DMX, and Sade and a musical mentor to Kanye West, he was just Dion
creating funky beats in the basement.
Let’s flashback 30 years ago in Dion’s basement in the Pill
Hill area on the southeast side of Chicago.
During this time his production gear was minimal and consisted of 1 technic
turntable, a Gemini mixer, a tape deck, and the legendary SP1200 sampler.
Digging for disco, Breaks, Funk, Soul, Jazz, House, and rap records was a norm
for him, along with childhood friends Frank Washington, Marc Davis, and Leron
Carson (RIP).
This tight circle of friends enabled No I.D. to create, and
test out new beats. He would put them on cassette tapes and oftentimes give them to Marc to get
feedback. As Time went on, these tapes accumulated and ended up in Marc’s
shoeboxes, which throughout the years became damaged or lost.
Luckily a few years ago Marc was able to retrieve some old shoe boxes with some
of these lost tapes containing pure funky treasures!!
The unreleased yellow 7 inch Holy Grail is a 3 track E.P. on
the SP1200 in No I.D.’s early years developing his signature chop sample style
of sweet jazz over hard drums. The lead-off track “Throw Your Hands Up” is pure
hard-core jazz-funk with a magnetic chorus. The B-side song “Invisible Theme”
is a classic 12 bit gritty sound dressed with slick sequenced horn stabs.
“Invisible Jazz” showcases a groovy baseline with an ear-bopping clarinet that
filters in and out super smoothly.
This is the second follow up to the Black Pegasus’ Seven
Sense Series that’s bound to be a record store day hit!
Order your copy below.
https://blackpegasusmusic.bigcartel.com/product/no-i-d-throw-your-hands-up-7-inch
Submitted by I Still Love H.E.R. Germany
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