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Crucial Vinyl: De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

Don selections cross time, space and genre, plus he selects De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising as his Crucial Vinyl.

Don choses another piece of 'Crucial' Vinyl' from his album collection. He explains why it means so much to him and features three key tracks.

This week he selects De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising, released in 1989.

Don says, "Now, by the time this album came out, I was in full Big Audio Dynamite-mode, and figured I knew a thing or two about sampling, but that didn't stop Mick Jones and I being absolutely floored on first hearing it. This record flew in the face of what was happening in the rest of the hip hop world. Even its title was left of centre, as it was inspired by a Johnny Cash tune (Five Feet High and Rising), so, right up front, you knew these brothers were coming from somewhere else, and the records they did sample bore testament to that - absolutely brilliant."

Don's other selections cross time, space and genre, mixing new releases with timeless classic and overlooked gems from the UK, the USA, Jamaica and beyond.

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Sun 3 May 2015 22:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Chassol

    The Big Sun

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Can't Keep Checking My Phone

  • Canned Heat

    On The Road Again

    • The Hits Of 1968 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • The Jays

    Yaho

  • Charlotte Hatherley

    White

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Little Sister.
    • 1.

  • Will Butler

    Son Of God

  • Hen-Jenny

    Tyland

  • Maddy Carty

    Memory Lane

  • Algiers

    Black Eunuch

    • Algiers.
    • Matador Records.

  • Aldo Vanucci

    When I See You Smile

  • Crucial Vinyl: 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul

    • De La Soul

      Eye Know

      • Now That's What I Call Music! 16 (Various Artists).
      • Now.

    • De La Soul

      Change In Speak

      • 3 Feet High and Rising.
      • Tommy Boy / Warner Bros..

    • De La Soul

      Say No Go

      • Big Life.

  • Blur

    Lonesome Street

    • Parlophone.

  • Mungos Hi-Fi (with Brother Culture)

    Lightning Thunder

  • Frank Eddie

    Body Call

  • Steely Dan

    Do It Again

    • MCA.

  • Elbow

    What Time Do You Call This?

    • Fiction.

  • Traffic

    Hole In My Shoe

    • And The Beat Goes On: The 60's Vol 2.
    • Debutante.

  • The Pioneers

    Long Shot Kick De Bucket

    • Rhythm & Blues Beat Volume 2.
    • Island.

  • U. S. Girls

    Damn That Valley

    • (single).
    • 4AD.
    • 1.

  • Prince

    White Mansion

  • Yasiin Bey

    Umi Says

  • Carlton and the Shoes

    Love Me Forever

    • Studio One Classics.
    • Soul Jazz.
    • 2.

  • Alabama Shakes

    Sound & Color

    • Sound & Color.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 001.

  • HONNE

    All In The Value

    • All In TheValue (single).
    • Super.

  • Ashley Beedle

    What You Looking For feat. John Turrell

  • Jib Kidder

    Appetites

    • Weird World Record Company.

  • Simply Red

    Ghetto Girl

    • Blue.
    • East West.

  • Buckshot LeFonque

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Broadcast

  • Sun 3 May 2015 22:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music