Medline and I go back to 2013 and he hasn’t let me down in all that time. A multi-instrumentalist with tight production chops and a love for old school and golden age hip hop, he’s been fusing original compositions with some heartfelt tributes to the hip hop greats and the records that they sampled for a while.
A lot of the big samples in the early days from came from relatively easy to find reasonably priced records, but as the art of sampling developed so did the search for unique breaks - rare Italian jazz, obscure library music and off into other genres well detached from the original soul, jazz and funk favourites.
With this new collection Medline has covered the holy grail end of the digging spectrum, those tunes that sit on the walls of well stocked record stores for three figure sums and that every digger hopes to unearth for a dollar at a thrift store.
Don’t ask me what the originals tracks are - they’re out of my budget and scope, but just kick back and sink into these beautifully crafted, cinematic, jazzy and funktified interpretations, and keep half an ear open for those magic moments that were transformed into some of your favourite hip hop bangers.
Playlist Companion
Find Medline and all sorts of future breaks in the Slow Jazz Playlist.
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