04/03/2025
Our dear friend and absolutely wonderful Louisville, Kentucky based DJ sddp delivers a minor masterpiece for SORRYMIX39.
Multiple years in the making and featuring artwork by the great Allison Hoffman, we are so happy to present sddp’s 100% Brandy: An Exploration of Bootleg & Edit Culture!
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Bootleg, edit, remix, re-edit, re-fix, all are essential tools in any DJ’s toolkit. There’s one singer in particular you’re more likely to see on those white label 12” records or haphazardly named .mp3 files though, Brandy Norwood. So much so that it’s basically turned into a running joke, with ScratchaDVA proposing the truly terrifying idea of her waking up one day and coming for the royalties she’d be owed from so many UK producers. It’s not just the United Kingdom though, a combination of her once in a lifetime vocal prowess, as well as a major record company that was very liberally pressing up acapella mixes for DJs in the mid to late 1990s, leads to her being sampled by producers all around the world.
This mix highlights three decades worth of unofficial remixes from the singer, spanning a myriad of styles and sounds, collected over the course of about 4 years. I ended up sifting through a good 300 or so tracks, as well as created some of my own edits in the process. Needless to say, the task of trying to highlight as many scenes and sounds as possible was incredibly daunting. In the end, at least one song from her 7 main solo albums, as well as bits from Moesha & other TV/Film appearances were sampled in my 93 minute long tribute to the vocal bible.
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