Eye Know

Music in this episode:De La Soul - "Eye Know" (1989)Mad Lads - "Make This Young Lady Mine" (1969)Lee Dorsey - "Get Out Of My Life, Woman" (1967)Sly and the Family Stone - "Sing a Simple Song" (1969)Steely Dan - "Peg" (1977)Otis Redding - "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" (1967)Hear a DJ-style mix I made of these tracks:Read more about Philip Tagg’s concept of “one-chord changes”.Read more about digital audio bit depth.Read an interview with Deborah Mannis-Gardner, the sample clearance expert who worked with De La Soul on getting everything in “Eye Know” cleared.Small correction: when I say “sampling error”, I mean quantization error. Also, at 14:44, I say that two to the tenth power is 1,048 rather than 1,024. My bad.Learn more about “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of The Bay” in my episode on the song. Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe