If it hasn't already been done, there's a history to be written of hip hop's love of James Last, Bert Kaempfert and other lounge orchestrations. Public Enemy in the boardroom with Herb Alpert. DJ Premier in a corner of the orchestra pit with his sampler. True to the ethos of sampling, Butch Cassidy Sound System has mutated into Pablo.
Didn't know until I listened to his film music that Serge Gainsbourg had such a flair for pastiche. Can't get enough of the chequered McCartneyism of this Jane Birkin song and I want to float forever in the Fender Rhodes of the instrumental.
His royal bassness gives us an Indo dub take on Roy Budd's theme for the English northeastern gangster flick. This wouldn't have sounded amiss on Bim Sherman's Miracle.
