Will Sessions Mix Takes (Take Two)

Will Sessions Mix Takes LP - Take Two (partial tracklist)

Rico Suave Bossa Nova - Jay Dee (on Welcome 2 Detroit) 2:11
Pressure - Black Milk (on Broken Wax EP) 3:19
Danger - Black Milk (on Broken Wax EP) 4:13
Take Notice- J Dilla featuring Guilty Simpson (on Ruff Draft) 5:14
Goatit - Black Milk featuring Phat Kat and Elzhi (on Caltroit) 7:23


Again can't pick out the opening couple of minutes but at 2:11 Shellaberger lopes into the familiar bassline of Jay Dee's Rico Suave Bossa Nova again off Welcome 2 Detroit.  Kacir on the MPC or more likely Beaubien on the keyboard chimes in the 'whistling' melody.  This is just the sort of silky groove with a live feel that's perfect for re-interpretation with an actual live feel.  Then at 3:19 they slip into the earlier work of Black Milk digging around fairly deeply in the crates to find Pressure off the Broken Wax EP of 2006. Then again at 4:13 Ryan Gimpert on guitar is coaxing Danger from the Broken Wax EP, that track originally being done with Phat Kat and T3.   At 5:14 it's enough of the pupil's work and the teacher wrests back the mantle.  Take Notice featuring Guilty Simpson is a staple from Dilla's Ruff Draft.  It's both an emblematic piece of Dilla's production but also a classic example of the unique nature of their collaborations together.  A Dilla beat for Guilty, or a Dilla beat that Guilty rapped over, well it's no longer just a Dilla beat.

Bringing the whole train back round to their frequent collaborator Black Milk, again showing their breadth of knowledge and dexterity even with a mix of live instrumentation and sequenced samples, Will Sessions launches (at 7:23) into what seems in hindsight an obvious bet: Goatit (off the Caltroit mixtape put together by Bishop Lamont and Black Milk) originally with Phat Kat and Elzhi.

Will Sessions are beasts. And men among men.