Playing on Saigon’s “The Invitation” with Q-Tip & Fatman Scoop

More work with mega-Platinum producer Just Blaze and mega-Grammy-winning engineer Ken Lewis: a sample recreation on rapper/actor Saigon‘s track “The Invitation (feat. Q-Tip & Fatman Scoop)” from his latest album The Greatest Story Never Told on Suburban Noize Records!

The job on the Indie Studio Drummer end was to exactly recreate the original sample underlying the tune, a funky and obscure old soul track with lots of cymbals and percussion. Hard work, and extremely meticulous, but damn fun.  I listened to A Tribe Called Quest‘s brilliant record The Low End Theory about a zillion times in my youth, so it’s a personal thrill to play on a track with Q-Tip, too!

Working on Common’s New Album

Not sure where this one will end up, but the call just came in to start work on a sample recreation for rapper/actor Common‘s latest release.  As is the case with a lot of this work, we’re recreating a funky old-school soul sample in minute detail.  Indie Studio Drummer - World Class Drum TracksIndie Studio Drummer’s Dylan Wissing has personally auditioned about fifty different tambourines in just about every music store in Manhattan to match a tone found in the late 60s sample – he’s the man to go to with any tambourine-sourcing related questions you might have!