I LIKE DRUMS
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Yes I do. Very much so in fact. All kinds of drums too – from machine gun style marching band percussion to tight ticking Kraftwerk beats.
I started liking drums because of the Chinese Lion Dance. The Lion Dance is a traditional Chinese dance that people would perform for festivities.
When I was a kid, my cousin was a Lion dancer, and sometimes I would get to follow him and the crew to their shows. The combination of the Dance, the boom boom boom of the big drum, the crashing gongs and the shattering cymbals – I was hooked.
So on the subject of drums, here are 2 tracks with some of my favourite sounding drums on record.
The first is “P.S.K.” from Schooly D, which is arguably one of the first gangsta rap records… that loop has been sampled tons of times, from Ruff Ryders to The Prodigy.
The second tune is from Electronome, which is old school techno from the Netherlands… the name of the tune itself kind of sums it up.
