one of my favorite indie hip-hop tracks from back when i used to do (1995-1999) is “too complex” by boston’s l da head toucha (now better known as ). it came out in 1996 on direct records and was produced by dj shame of the vinyl reanimators. it’s a pretty basic production built around a great sample of “loving you, holding you” (which was later used on jay-z’s “what the game made me”) and a de la soul acappela snippet, but it’s simplicity is what makes it so great — it’s a clean, no-frills track that typifies what was great about the boston hip-hop scene of the mid-to-late ’90s.
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Jon Sublet said,
the de la track to which that snippet comes from, the bizness ft. common, was one of my favorite songs in ‘96. i remember driving my moms camry on my way to work listening to that song at extremely high levels. oh the ol’ days.
B E L I E V E said,
PREACH ON THAT BOSTON INDIE INDIE!
This track was on a mixtape that my friend Chic Masters (backpack alert: Binary Star related) made with “DOUGIE STARES”–quite possibly the best dj name ever.
It also had the track “the vaccine” by the pharm on it as well as a pharcyde cut, illanoise by bootcamp, and silent murder by nas. it even had a john klemmer free soul snippet on it–loved that tape.