Skull Snaps
- The article is about the band and its eponymous album
| Skull Snaps | |
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| Genres | funk |
| Years active |
1963-1970 (The Diplomats) 1970-1973 (Skull Snaps) |
| Labels |
GSF Ten12 Records |
| Past members | Erv Littleton Waters, Sam O. Culley, George Bragg |
Skull Snaps was a funk group active between 1963 and 1973. Until 1970 they were known as The Diplomats, and released a number of singles with some success. Renamed Skull Snaps, they released an eponymous album on the small GSF label in 1973 before disappearing.[1]
Ten12 Records re-united all the original members of Skull Snaps (Erv Littleton Waters, Sam O. Culley, and George Bragg) in 2005 in tandem with the band's first official release, "Snapped"/"I'm Your Pimp", since its 1975 single.
Under the direction of Skull Snaps frontman Erv Waters, Ten12 Records planned to release the entire Skull Snaps catalog on CD and DVD,[2] with recordings from the original album plus five bonus tracks: "Al's Razor Blade", "Ain't That Lovin' You", "On Top of It", "Soul Makossa", and "She's the One".
Skull Snaps album
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| Studio album by Skull Snaps | ||||
| Released | 1974, 1995, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul, funk, deep funk, rare groove | |||
| Length | 32:12 | |||
| Label | GSF, Charly Records Aztec Music, Ten12 Records | |||
| Producer | George Kerr | |||
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| Allmusic |   [3] |
The Skull Snaps album contains drum breaks that have been sampled numerous times on various hip hop records. In 1989, hip-hop artist Stezo first sampled the opening drums from their song, "It's a New Day" on his work titled, "It's My Turn".
Since then, the now-familiar opening drum pattern of "It's a New Day" can be heard on songs by well-known acts such as Ol' Dirty Bastard, Das EFX, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Eric B. & Rakim, Digable Planets, DJ Shadow, The Prodigy, Panjabi MC and others, many of whom sampled the drum pattern directly from the Stezo track, as he let the sample run "naked". [4]
References
- ↑ "Skull Snaps". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
- ↑ "Ten Twelve Records".
- ↑ Allmusic review
- ↑ "Skull Snaps Music Sampled by Others". WhoSampled. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
External links
- AllMusic Guide entry on Skull Snaps (group)
- Ten12 Records on 2005 release Skull Snaps (album)
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