Mountains and the sea podcast/The Hurley Gett Off remixes

Mountains and the sea podcast/The Hurley Gett Off remixes

These guys do a great job with their deep dive into the Gett Off/Gangster Glam mixes.

It's got me wondering if anyone has interviewed him specifically about what he did for Prince/what he had access to? How he felt about Prince sampling him on the Black album?

I'm subscribed to a few Prince podcasts and don't remember seeing him mentioned much (if at all). It seems like he worked on quite a lot of stuff though. So thought I'd ask.

Reply #1 posted 11/05/24 1:31pm

nayroo2002

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Oh eek

What's the sample on the black album???

"Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends"

https://princevault.com/i...e=Cindy_C.

Reply #2 posted 11/05/24 2:29pm

langebleu

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^ Likely referring to Cat's rap

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Reply #3 posted 11/05/24 2:43pm

FrankieCoco1

It’s Cat rap on Cindy C, taken from J.M. Silk’s “Music Is The Key”, so not really a sample (Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley = Jack Master Silk , i.e. J.M. Silk).

Edit: langebleu beat me to it, thanks
[Edited 11/5/24 14:45pm]

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Reply #4 posted 11/05/24 5:55pm

Doozer

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Thanks for listening - that’s the podcast I make with my wife.

I also believe Prince sampled the opening synth hits from Music is the Key in Superfunkycalifragisexi. Listen to the first few seconds of Music is the Key, right after the vocal intro:

https://youtu.be/PEBBSTZl...9e_bsy8RBJ

Check out The Mountains and the Sea, a Prince podcast by yours truly and my wife. More info at https://www.facebook.com/TMATSPodcast/

Reply #5 posted 11/05/24 10:19pm

Trufunksoulja

Doozer said:
Thanks for listening - that’s the podcast I make with my wife. I also believe Prince sampled the opening synth hits from Music is the Key in Superfunkycalifragisexi. Listen to the first few seconds of Music is the Key, right after the vocal intro: https://youtu.be/PEBBSTZl...9e_bsy8RBJ

Cool, adding your podcast to my playlist! music

Reply #6 posted 11/06/24 1:20am

Vannormal

Doozer said:
Thanks for listening - that’s the podcast I make with my wife. I also believe Prince sampled the opening synth hits from Music is the Key in Superfunkycalifragisexi. Listen to the first few seconds of Music is the Key, right after the vocal intro: https://youtu.be/PEBBSTZl...9e_bsy8RBJ

Isn't that just a regular sample pre-programmed on some synthesizer?

I'm not an expert, but this orchestral sound-sample was used so many times by others too

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)

Reply #7 posted 11/06/24 7:21am

nayroo2002

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Hurley sounds familiar besides all this stuff.
Didn't he remix other songs?

"Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends"

Reply #8 posted 11/06/24 8:31am

FrankieCoco1 said:

That and the kind of orchestra hit sound used as the intro to Superfunkacalifragisexy

Reply #9 posted 11/06/24 8:57am

Doozer said:

It's a great show. I had a Peach and Black shaped hole in my podcast app and you two have managed to fill it. I hope there are many more episodes to come!

I don't think you went as far as to imply it, but from the way you mentioned Hurley not listing any of his Prince work on his website. I inferred that he mightn't have been completely happy? Also that the fact Prince/cat used his rap, and sampled a couple of elements from his album could have been contributing factors to the Black Album being shelved... Not due to Hurley (the Gett Off mixes happening some time later), but more due to Prince being outspoken about people using his work and here he was using other people's.

Did you reach out to Hurley at all? about speaking on his experiences?
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Reply #10 posted 11/07/24 6:25am

BeauFunk

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The 'Orchestra Hit' sound is actually a standard sound from the Fairlight Sampler/computer. There are many Youtube documentaries about it. For example: https://youtu.be/8A1Aj1_E...qGD6QjLCa.

Prince has used that and other sounds extensively, often using weird pitched down versions of it. Listen to Sheila E.'s 'Koo koo' for example.

"In Funk We Thrust" - Bootsy Collins

Reply #11 posted 11/07/24 7:34am

Vannormal

BeauFunk said:

The 'Orchestra Hit' sound is actually a standard sound from the Fairlight Sampler/computer. There are many Youtube documentaries about it. For example: https://youtu.be/8A1Aj1_E...qGD6QjLCa.

Prince has used that and other sounds extensively, often using weird pitched down versions of it. Listen to Sheila E.'s 'Koo koo' for example.

That's what i meant...

Thank you. smile

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972)

Reply #12 posted 11/07/24 7:51am

BeauFunk said:

The 'Orchestra Hit' sound is actually a standard sound from the Fairlight Sampler/computer. There are many Youtube documentaries about it. For example: https://youtu.be/8A1Aj1_E...qGD6QjLCa.

Prince has used that and other sounds extensively, often using weird pitched down versions of it. Listen to Sheila E.'s 'Koo koo' for example.

That's fair enough, but when he took a rap from the album, and then used; if not samples, then the exact same sounds as used on the album. It's not a great look, especially not when his take on rap at the time was "these guys are just using other people's sound".