{"product_id":"lee-gamble-influences-mix-for-xlr8r","title":"Lee Gamble Influences mix for XLR8R","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"While wondering what I could possibly list as \"influences,\" I kept returning to the idea of collating a mix of hip-hop. I’ve listened to this music since I was a kid and thinking back, it was the first music I came across that I could describe as having the feeling of \"elsewhere\"—a sense of place that didn’t exist in other music I was exposed to at the time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBut I don’t DJ it or play it out other than at home or on headphones while travelling. I am mindful of the fact my perspective on it is that of an outsider—I don’t come from where this music was born and I don’t propose to understand the struggle it came from; there is also a very real problematic history of appropriation of this music, and I can't ignore the dialectic collision of white voyeurism\/white gaze, and if the idea of \"influences\" can be said to be more than just a production style or whatever, then hip- hop has encouraged me to have a critical approach to my own listening practices.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt’s with that in mind that I’ve put together this mix of tracks and edits. I went back and listened again and again to the stuff I’ve loved—mainly from the early to late '90s. I’ve continued to listen to hip-hop as it has mutated and re-formed and I’m still listening to what’s happening with the genre now, but for this mix, I wanted to keep the feel of it to the era that undoubtedly influenced the younger me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI remember a bunch of kids in my area of Birmingham, a bit older than me, aspiring b-boys I suppose—think Mongoose BMX’s, lino, Farah Trousers, Fila, Lacoste Jumpers, a Boombox. I had a football and they offered to lend me a tape they were playing for a loan of my ball. That tape was\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Street-Sounds-Hip-Hop-Electro-11\/release\/14662\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eStreet Sounds—Hip Hop Electro 11\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand I didn’t have a clue what it was, but one track, in particular, took hold of my young brain.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=px2AmPxDBi8\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eRoxanne Shante’s \"Def Fresh Crew\"\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas like nothing I’d ever heard at that point. My access to music up until then was mostly via my Dad’s collection and national radio stations \/ TV. This track was set in some place, with a crowd of people and they weren’t singing about love lost in some pop vacuum.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne particular thing that it held for me was its poetics. It’s ability to describe a place, a situation, a street etc.. My interest in radiophonic arts, musique concréte, electronic music, techno, jungle, grime etc. came later, but thinking in retrospect, like radiophonics, hip-hop also plays with the idea of a ‘Cinéma Pour L’Oreille' —especially on a track like this Shante one, with its looped crowd noise giving it a hyperrealistic sense of place. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is the first track in the mix.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe mix itself is made of edits of mixtapes, skits, radio shows and some individual tracks from around these years, so I guess it’s more of a collage (in the radiophonic\/concrete sense) than a conventional mix.\" - Lee Gamble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee Gamble","offers":[{"title":"\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1\u0026mini=1\u0026feed=%2Fxlr8r%2Fxlr8r-influences-podcast-04-lee-gamble%2F\" frameborder=\"0\" \u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","offer_id":68581863981337,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1030\/0755\/1769\/files\/influences.png?v=1794182941","url":"https:\/\/shoptervella.shop\/products\/lee-gamble-influences-mix-for-xlr8r","provider":"Grandwick","version":"1.0","type":"link"}