Troffman on Radio 1

How bout this. Pete Tong played Troffman on the Essential Selection last Friday . Was the Shades of Green thing with the Al Green sample that's been around ages. But now it's called Hold You and has someone recreating the vocal. Liked the original better but its still cool Pete Tongs playing it. I vaguely remember a couple of weeks ago hearing Danny Rampling say he'd just played it too. Go Soane!

Al Green did not clear the sample for Shaboom
therefore a recreation was needed but I hear
thru the grapevine the original project was mean

the original was the bomb, the illshit, the dope...

Al Green (or his avaricious publishers, i guess) is missing out.

What a shame.
Bootlegs are nearly always better.

Just look at that Cleptomaniacs song, Stevie Wonder version was WAY better.

Yup, just listened to Shades of Green & the Al G version is much better.

Apparently there was a huge vibe on the original bootleg version and it was expected to be a big track. Last year I even talked to a guy in a record shop in San Francisco who had heard of it. Glad I got a copy of it (with Simon Grigg from BPM talking shit over it though...)

Downloaded the new vers. off audiogalaxy, it's pretty cool, but I remember the bootleg used to get played on bFM and I think it was called Big Al G. Don't spose anyone knows how to locate it on MP3?

good luck to ya finding it in any format.

the best you can do is play Al Greens "Lets get married" and imagine the house beat.

or you could request "Big Al G" on the request show and record it.

yep sumo i totally agree, i loved the original Big Al G track, i reckon it had a way funkier bassline with wicked vocal sampling that made it smooth. ive got it dubbed on tape from the radio (real old school i know!).