The recent Sabres Of Paradise interview where Jagz Kooner selected eight tracks/ records that soundtracked the trio's studio listening while they made Sabresonic included Cypress Hill's 1993 album Black Sunday. Cypress Hill hit the jackpot with the sound, image and frequent homages to smoking weed. They were massive- the first hip hop act to have two US top ten albums.
The two rappers, B- Real and Sen Dog, perfected their whiny, nasal delivery. DJ Muggs' production was incredibly good, the next step on in hip hop at the time, a fusion of deep bass, head nodding beats and deftly selected and deployed samples and scratching. Black Friday included this pair of tracks...
Funky as you like, built over a lolloping groove and with some superb guitar licks dropped in and out (Billy Cobham's Stratus is in there as is Deep Gully by The Outlaw Blues Band). Sen and B- Real trade verses about being prepared for all eventualities.
Hits From The Bong opens with the sound of bubbles and inhalation followed by the guitar part from Dusty Springfield's Son Of A Preacher Man. Muggs throws Lee Dorsey's Get Out Of My Life Woman into the mix. Mary Jane is celebrated.
That Sabres Of paradise were listening to Black Sunday isn't too much of a surprise- they had a hip hop element in their sound and Andrew Weatherall played hip hop sets in the mid- 90s. DJ Muggs' production would no doubt have been dissected and studied. The clarity and space Muggs gets in his tracks is definitely evident in the Sabres sound from around this time. Jagz says they were 'completely obsessed' with Black Sunday. There's absolutely some of Cypress Hill in this...
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