Amp Fiddler-Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly

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I was always going to like this, but it's really pretty good.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Now would it be somewhat gauche of me to hope for a remix album?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

If Moodymann & Carl Craig does the entire remix album, im with you.

― NUXX (NUXX), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

word.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I like this, but I think in the same vein I prefer the Unabombers Electric Soul mix album from last year, where I first heard Amp Fiddler. Worth checking out, for sure.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been meaning to pick this up for a while. saw a used copy, but passed it up. then saw the new copy sells for 17.99$! doh! what's it sound like? i've read that he's tied into the broken beat scene like vikter duplaix, but then i listened to clips on his site that just sounded like d'angelo nü-soul. i just wasn't sure.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It does sound like D'Angelo, I suppose, though he is part of the Detroit Kenny Dixon/Theo Parrish "axis of goodness".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it sounds like d'angelo but amp is less *conservative* sounding. viktor duplaix should just do *featurings* cause his own stuff is quite mediocre.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

it sounds like a post-moodymann update of "talking book". it's not quite up there with moodymann, theo parrish or andres but it's a (big) cut above duplaix or king britt, etc.

the compilation ronan mentioned is also grate.

i am still debating picking up "the detroit experiment", i think i need to get over the indie guilt and just buy it.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

I CANNOT get enough Amp Fiddler right now.
Especially:

Amp Fiddler Ft. Corinne Bailey Rae - If I Don't (Wookie Remix)
John Arnold Ft. Amp Fiddler - I Can Be
Patchworks - Sugar (Amp Fiddler Mix)
Only Child Ft. Amp Fiddler - U Bring Me Vibes

Ugh. Between these and Rima's This World, this week is defined.

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

Also, wondering if Jeremy Ellis and John Arnold should be in this thread, or...

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

did those guys ever get good?

― Display Name, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:25 (seventeen years ago)

Isn't this guy George Clintons Grandson or Nephew or some kind of 1/4 or therabouts relation anyway?

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:28 (seventeen years ago)

xp hahaha

my friend was the art director at ubiquity and we used to chill with those dudes all the time. jeremy ellis, john arnold, the fiddler, and i iirc joh beltran. i liked some of their stuff, but overall i couldn't really hang w alot of the broken beat/soul stuff that alot of the ubiquity roster was doing. amp fiddler has some really nice stuff and if you like that you may enjoy some of the early sa-ra stuff, their later stuff not so much.

― oscar, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

rest in peace

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/12/18/amp-fiddler-influential-detroit-funk-musician-dies-at-65/71957442007/

― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:16 (two years ago)

Still love this little outtake from the early part of the century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb_VhynWFb0

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:27 (two years ago)

ah shit

― ꙮ (map), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:55 (two years ago)

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