Hey Rak! Running the risk of stating the obvious.. but maybe others like yourself were too busy to get a flip up there? (KEL!! Would have loved to have heard what you kudda come up with -- next time!!
)I struggled with the sample myself... all that bass sax and bass, etc, single tones and percussion were hard to work with an change to a beat-context. Btw, if anyone here hasn't heard much or any Braxton before, he runs a lot of hard-speed-bop tunes as well or stuff with more of a pulse... a monster in jazz really, esp. for his contribution to composition, though I find his tone a bit reedy and thin for the most part and don't have a large collection he's worth checking out.
With the toughness in the samples in mind it's a pretty easy vote for me giving it to Tamagotchi - great use of heaps of different elements, composition/narrative... satisfies all my experimental leanings while still having a dope groove. Understated (sleepy? yah, nah... I like there's space for the listener to fill in parts rather than getting the slap-up-the-side-of-the-head styles approach.. which is a road that easily couldve been taken with those Naked City drums - Boom!)
Dug your tracks too Fresh and Chopper - Fresh esp. from the perspective of pulling a melody-loop out, working the resample and getting the timing on the 'pella to work - no mean feat.
