Urban Shakedown - The Champ

[Logic]

I know there are at least 2 mixes of this tune, and I'm not sure if either were released. Both were '96 jump up and sampled the shit out of The Champ break and synths.

 

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[haste]

yeah i have this tune on vinyl...was on an album

 

i'll dig it out

[Logic]

You'll have to do a clip of it because I'm pretty sure there was more than one mix. 8)

[Guest Guest]

One was released on Breakbeat Science vol 2, called Bass of the Tramp or something like that, had the champ organs in it.

[haste]

Yeah, that was the one

[Guest Guest]

one had the champ organs in it, and hiphop vocal samples like "check out the dope cut".

 

the other had the vocal "badass motherfuker on 2 turntables" in it and a regular 2 step.

 

were both mixes released?

[mulder]

"Badass motherfuker on 2 turntables" became "BM Funksta" on the second Aphrodite album. I didn't know Bass of the Tramp was released!

[WeaveMcQuilt]

http://www.urbantakeover.co.uk/lpost/post.html

 

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M.Finn/Aphro - The Champ.

 

 

I guess that confirms it was unreleased?

 

 

BM Funksta is a remix of "True Blue", different bassline.

[mulder]

BM Funksta is a remix of "True Blue", different bassline.

 

When I made my previous comment, I hadn't heard BM Funksta in a while and for some reason thought it had bits of the Champ / Bass of the Tramp dubs I remember (my memory is seriously letting me down here!). Listening to it now, I'm not sure what it was a remix of, but it's certainly not 'True Blue' (I take it you mean the Jungle Brothers tune?) It is however, a reworking of one or more dubplates that Aphro was playing in about 1998 when I was gigging with him a little bit and heard those plates loads. The 900 Number breakdown section certainly rings lots of bells and it's got some connection with the Champ / Tramp plate I feel. I may have a tape somewhere with one of these plates on, I'll get digging....

[mulder]

Right, BM Funksta is just a reworking of 'Mother Fucker' dubplate, which doesn't have any Champ samples in it at all, but does have the 'Money' sample and the '900 Number' bit.

 

 

There may have been a Tramp / Champ plate with the mother fucker vocal, I don't remember hearing it though.

 

What could've happened is that there were 2 versions of 'Bass of the Tramp', one earlier than the other, the later one being released on Breakbeat Science 2.