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It's not often that a sample clearance claim against a record company  turns out to be an altogether pleasant experience. Usually it's a  blustery, puffy-chested affair with lawyers on both sides citing arcane  copyright cases and threatening court proceedings as if the year were  1987 and Biz Markie had just released his first album on Cold Chillin.'
We’ve been fortunate enough to never have to deal with any of that,  as our attorney is the kind of woman who teaches copyright legends  about the outcome of the most recent Koons case and its application to  sampling before they even know about it. As a result, we have gained  access into the superb Raymond Scott catalog through our association  with Basta Audio Visuals and Scott’s musical steward Irwin Chusid. And,  more recently, we inked a deal with singer, songwriter, pianist and  man-in-the-know Matthew Larkin Cassell.
MLC hit us up after he  heard his “Heaven,†from his superb (and superbly rare) album Pieces on  the Madlib production “3.214†from Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix. At  first Madlib had no idea he was using MLC’s work until he put two and  two together and realized that his source material, a Japanese bootleg  12†labled “MLC†stood for, well, you guessed it.
Who wouldn’t  want access to the multi-tracks to MLC’s break-beat laded “My Life?† Madlib certainly did. And MLC wanted to see his entire catalog  (comprised of the Pieces album, an EP entitled Matt The Cat, a 7†single  and a recent vinyl EP) issued on CD and distributed digitally. So, I  flew to the Bay Area, hung out with the man and committed his story to  tape. Even though our lawyer has been amazing with our other sample  claims, Matthew and I decided early on to keep this conversation among  friends so we got down to negotiations. Five months later, here we are.  We’re officially announcing the soon-to-be-released Matthew Larkin  Cassell The Complete Works and hinting that we might do something  special with those multis. With MLC’s permission of course.
(Egon,  May 12,2009)
Tracklisting & Sound Clips:
|  | 01 |  | Rendezvous |  | clip |  | 
|  | 02 |  | Heaven |  | clip |  | 
|  | 03 |  | Ecoutez Moi |  | clip |  | 
|  | 04 |  | You |  | clip |  | 
|  | 05 |  | Beggin' To Stay |  | clip |  | 
|  | 06 |  | Holiday |  | clip |  | 
|  | 07 |  | Another Day Gone |  | clip |  | 
|  | 08 |  | One Night |  | clip |  | 
|  | 09 |  | In My Life |  | clip |  | 
|  | 10 |  | More |  | clip |  | 
|  | 11 |  | Fly Away |  | clip |  | 
|  | 12 |  | Young Girl |  | clip |  | 
|  | 13 |  | Hold Me |  | clip |  | 
|  | 14 |  | All I'm Missing Is You |  | clip |  | 
|  | 15 |  | Close To You Tonight |  | clip |  | 
|  | 16 |  | When I Go Down |  | clip |  | 
|  | 17 |  | Love To Love |  | clip |  | 
|  | 18 |  | The Meaning Of It All |  | clip |  | 
|  | 19 |  | Blind As Love Can Be |  | clip |  | 
|  | 20 |  | Suddenly |  | clip |  | 
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