Jazz Samples with Hip Hop Beat - Amon Tobin

Amon Tobin has been making straight up electronic jazz for a long time now. Many of his albums consist almost entirely of jazz samples, though recently he has been more into general sound design and more natural sounds (which is disappointing). This is one of his best tracks showing a great mix of the grand three elements, electronic jazz and hip hop.

Like I was getting at, some of his tracks can veer too much into disjointed sound collage, but this track keeps a solid form, and because of that has a greater effect.

Essential Electronic Jazz Rap

If this is going to be a blog about combinations of electronic jazz and rap, then we got to have some Tribe.

We Got The Jazz by A Tribe Called Quest

This track features some nice jazz samples and a really strong beat. The laid back deliveries of these guys really makes it work.

Mix of Electronic, Hip Hop, and Jazz: Nujabes

This is Aruarian Dance by Nujabes, featuring a great jazz guitar sample, to make this a perfect example of electronic jazz hip hop. This piece successfully dances the line between upbeat laid back-ness and cheesy-ness, which many lesser artists fall prey to.

Nothing really revolutionary about this track, the samples are modified in all the textbook ways, but there's nothing wrong with something being done well by the book.

It's amazing how nice it can be to just hear the same samples over and over with a good beat and a few effects. More electronic jazz hip hop to come!