SONG TITLE: “It’s Just There”
ARTIST: Nasty Millionaire
RELEASE DATE: 05/14/2002
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This comes from all the way back in the year 2003, one of the first songs I ever made after moving to Los Angeles from New York. I didn’t have a job, had no idea what I wanted to do with my life (well, actually I wanted to be a screenwriter at the time). In my spare time, I started making what I called “monster montage instrumental hip-hop mood music”. I was heavily influenced by DJ Shadow. My friend Dave let me borrow his Boss SP202 Dr. Sample. It was my first sampler and I was just learning how to mess with it. It was a good first tool and I still have it today (it went from my borrowing it to me keeping it, I guess).
And I was recording on some crappy 4-track that I was borrowing from my roommate Simon (of Red Sands fame). I wonder if he still has that 4-track?
So this song is called “It’s Just There” and it samples everything from random shit on the radio to Bjork to Air to some other stuff I forget.
The title is from some snippet of dialogue that I pulled off the radio “you can’t put your finger on it, you can’t describe it, you can’t see it, it’s just there”. What I like about radio sampling is that there is no second chance and you have no idea of what you might hear or what’s coming up next. What I mean is, I am a big fan of non-intentionality in terms of art.
This, and the two other songs recorded from this time period (which I will post coming soon…), remain some of my favorite tracks that I’ve ever done. They have longevity for me, or maybe it’s just nostalgia. At the time, I just wanted to get stoned, put on headphones, forget about the world, and creat long meandering 8 minute montage instrumental hip-hop stuff. To some extent, that is still what I like to do.
I like the part in this song when the girl talks about how a body that they thought was dead came back alive inside the body bag.
