Cut and Paste 3: Opening a Major Cut Posted by independent j

Return of the Original Art Form - Major Force from 12" on Mo Wax (1997 reissued 2006). Re-return of the Original Art Form - Cut Chemist from 12" on Mo Wax (2000). Closing out the string of posts on funky cut and paste productions, today we've got a great classic and an even better rethinking of that classic. Hopefully, I've given a taste of some of the better examples of this sub-sub-sub-genre, and there are definitely many more examples with varying degrees of quality. The Major Force track is by Hiroshi Fujiwara and KUDO featuring DJ Milo from the funky breakbeat classic album that has recently been re-released. While there are a bunch of nice downtempo and mid-tempo beat-head tracks on this album, this track stands out as the most inventive and busiest. Evidently other felt the same way because it got the deluxe re-work treatment by Cut Chemist, DJ Format, and DJ Harvey (a "huh, what?" for that last one). While it isn't a mint Boscoe (sweet Lord, Junior, what a great post), the Re-return is one of my more prized records on the shelf because of (in addition to the great music) the elegant and symmetric sleeve design and nifty clear gold vinyl. Cut laid it on the line aobut this track: "I used 49 records, an old school tape and a homeboy of mine to do this mix." And from that large source set he made one hell of stew.