Monday, June 10, 2013

El Condor Pasa

When DJ Shadow's The Private Press was released in 2002, I promptly fell in love with the album.


One of the songs I loved the most was "You Can't Go Home Again".




Earlier this year, as I was rediscovering the music of Paul Simon, I came across "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" which was released in 1970 on Bridge Over Troubled Water. I quickly realized that the beginning of this song was used in DJ Shadow's "You Can't Go Home Again". I love it when this happens.



Simon and Garfunkel also sampled "El Condor Pasa" which is a Peruvian song written in 1913 by Daniel Alomia Robles. In conclusion, Simon and Garfunkel are Hip Hop.

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