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.