First Appearance:Ill Communication LP May 31, 1994 Written by: Beastie Boys/Mario Caldato/Al Kooper Performed by: Beastie Boys Production Notes: Produced by Beastie Boys and Mario Caldato, recorded and mixed at G-Son Studios, Atwater Village CA and Tin Pan Alley, New York, NY. Engineered by Mario Caldato and assistant engineer Settly. Sequenced at Bundy's Playhouse, mastered at Futuredisc by Tom Baker
Behind the Beats and Lyrics...
Flute Loop contains the sample "music to rock the nation",
which is sampled from "Dub Revolution", the first track off Lee Perry's Revolution Dub.
Samples
"Flute Thing" by The Blues Project (Al Kooper) from the album Projections (1966)
"I Spy Cops" by Richard Pryor from the album Craps (After Hours) (1971)
"Dub Revolution" by Lee Perry from the album Revolution Dub (1975)
References
Victoria - Victoria's Secret, a lingerie company
Al Goldstein (1936-2013) - publisher of Screw magazine
Pat Ewing (1962- ) - a professional basketball player who spent most of his career with the New York Knicks
Grape Ape - a 70's Hanna-Barbera cartoon character
Don Cornelius (1936-2012) - creator and host of Soul Train, television's first black-oriented music variety show
Subwoofer - a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies
Robert Perlman - a publicist with Set to Run Public Relations who helped do press for Paul's Boutique; Perlman, who is a funk/soul record collector, gave Beastie Boys several records that they used on Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty; he is credited with drum programming on Hello Nasty
Dante - Dante Ross, longtime hip-hop producer
SD50 - Stimulated Dummies, a hip-hop production trio of Dante Ross, Geeby Dajani, and John Gamble
Sample & Reference Breakdown
"I ain't goin' no place/Move? Me?!" - a sample from "I Spy Cops" by Richard Pryor
"Music to rock the nation" - a sample from "Dub Revolution" by Lee Perry
"I'm like Al Goldstein, I'm all about screwing" - Al Goldstein is the publisher of the adult magazine Screw
"Peaks of AK" - mountain peaks of Alaska
Commentary:
Press
"...[Flute Loop's] titular sound weave[s] a high-pitched web around a wall of gnarly guitar" - Boston Herald, August 1998
