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7inch sampler from Jim Sharp's ATCQ revisit of Midnight Marauders. On November 9th 1993 A Tribe Called Quest‘s Midnight Marauders hit stores. Now 20-years-old, the album has been remixed by Canada-born, London-residing, DJ Jim Sharp. Claiming ATCQ to be his favourite rap group of all time, Sharp, with the help of modern day technology, was able to attain some previously unreleased Tribe vocals, armed with these vocals was able to rebuild tracks from Midnight Marauders using their original samples. Sharp did note that “technology has only moved so far and the majority of vocals were impossible to get.” Imagining how Q-Tip would have captured the samples, probably using a turntable and an MPC, Sharp chose not to use pitch correct, instead he sampled one side of the audio and bounced it to stereo and was continually trying to get the right filter, echo, pitch and sound from the original sample. Also reimagining big sections of tracks paying homage to some of his favourite producers – DJ Premier, DJ Shadow, 9th Wonder and Large Professor – Sharp thought about what it would have been like to have some of the game’s certified legends, such as Biggie, Nas and Biz Markie, dropping guest verses next to Tip and Phife. “I completely understand how dear Tribe fans hold Marauders,” says Sharp. “So it was important to me that it had a fresh take but stayed true to the original ethos. This was a labour of love and I hope people dig it for what it is.”