scorediggers “Brandenburg Beat” is a Brilliantly Subversive Re-Purposing of the OG Classics in the Tradition of Wendy Carlos and Walter Murphy

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scoredigger, photo courtesy the artist (cropped)

Not everyone is thinking to steal, “note by note from Brandenberg concerto No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach.” But scoredigger has and incorporated it into a progressive hip-hop beat. Sure, “cratediggers” have sampled everything under the sun to find the choicest sounds, rhythms and ideas to re-purpose and transform into something more modern. Wendy Carlos released the 1968 classic Switched-On Bach, a synthesizer-based interpretation of Bach including Brandenberg Concerto but No. 3 not No. 2. And of course Walter Murphy had a hit in 1976 with “A Fifth of Beethoven,” a disco dance floor smash. So scoredigger is in great company and this morphing of Back into a cool downtempo track is brilliant in its own right. Listen on Soundcloud and check out scoredigger’s further exploits at the links following.

soundcloud.com/scoredigger
r-cr.bandcamp.com/releases
instagram.com/scoredigger