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Platinum (The Headhunters album)

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Released
  
June 14, 2011

Release date
  
14 June 2011

Genres
  
Jazz-funk, Jazz fusion

Length
  
70:44

Label
  
Owl Studios

Producers
  
Mike Clark, Bill Summers

Platinum (The Headhunters album)

Recorded
  
Spring 2011 The Static Shack, (Indianapolis, IN) Baba Bill's Studio, (New Orleans, LA) Nolan Smith Studios, (Los Angeles, CA)

Artists
  
The Headhunters, Headhunters

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Platinum is the 2011 Owl Studios debut from legendary Jazz/Funk group The Headhunters. The album follows The Headhunters' tendency to blend genres and instrumentation, deftly moving from Jazz to Hip Hop to R&B and back again throughout each track and the series of interludes and segues which joins them together.

Contents

The album is in part a response to The Headhunters immense influence on Hip Hop through the sampling of The Headhunters track God Made Me Funky off of Survival of the Fittest, which has been sampled by everyone from Eric B. and Rakim to De La Soul to Mobb Deep to the Fugees and Prince, among others. With Platinum, The Headhunters embraced this influence through their inclusion of Hip Hop and Funk artists such as Snoop Dogg, George Clinton, Killah Priest, and Jaecyn Bayne.

Track listing

  1. "Platinum Intro" (:50)
  2. "Mission Statement" (4:01) feat Jaecyn Bayne
  3. "Reality Of It" (:17)
  4. "Salamander" (7:09)
  5. "I Predict A Good year" (:11)
  6. "D-Funk (Funk With Us)" (4:48) feat Snoop Dogg, George Clinton, Killah Priest, Cynthia Layne, & Jaecyn Bayne
  7. "I Feel Really Good About" (:10)
  8. "Tracie" (6:01)
  9. "Rehearse Everybody" (:13)
  10. "Paging Mr. Wesley" (5:31)
  11. "M Trane" (8:48)
  12. "Apple Tree" (5:18) feat Jaecyn Bayne
  13. "Palm Nut" (6:53)
  14. "Years Of Touring" (:10)
  15. "Congo Place" (4:55) feat Donald Harrison
  16. "On The Road" (:16)
  17. "Head Hunting" (4:48)
  18. "Skizness" (3:50) feat Private Pile
  19. "Soul Glow" (5:29)
  20. "Platinum Outro" (:42)

Personnel

  • Mike Clark: Drums
  • Bill Summers: Percussion, Vocals
  • Richie Goods: Bass
  • Kyle Roussel: Keyboards
  • Donald Harrison: Alto Saxophone, MOOG Bass, Keyboards
  • Rob Dixon: Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Keyboard
  • Derrick Gardner: Trumpet
  • Snoop Dogg: Rap
  • Killah Priest: Rap
  • Jaecyn Bayne; Rap
  • Private Pile: Rap
  • George Clinton: Philosophical Interjection
  • Cynthia Layne: Vocals
  • Alexei Marti: Timbales, Vocals
  • Patrice Rushen: Keyboards
  • Bennie Maupin: Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
  • Azar Lawrence: Soprano Saxophone
  • Gary Mielke: Bass, MOOG Bass, Keyboards
  • PJ Yinger: Trumpet
  • Jerry Stucker: Guitar.
  • Kentyah Fraser: Production


    • Produced by Mike Clark and Bill Summers
    Co-Produced by – Rob Dixon and Gary Mielke
    Executive Producer – J. Allan Hall
    All songs engineered, mixed and mastered by Gary Mielke,

    Songs

    1Platinum (intro)0:51
    2Mission Statement4:01
    3Reality of It0:17

    References

    Platinum (The Headhunters album) Wikipedia
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