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leila - won't you be my baby, baby (mp3)

brian auger's trinity & julie driscoll - break it up (mp3)

there's something really satisfying about tracing a sample and finding something that's just as good, if not better and that you're pretty sure you'd never have heard otherwise. i've a few good examples i'd like to share and i think these two songs are as good a place as any to start.

it started with this leila track from a select magazine cover cd from some time around 1998. it's from her album like weather and is some lovely lo-fi shuffliness with her friend luca doing a cracking job on the singing.

the shuffly beat is a scratchy sample from a song by proper jazz maverick brian auger and more specifically from his 1967 incarnation with his band trinity and singer julie driscoll. leila sampled something from the first four seconds or so, after that this song goes somewhere completely different.

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