Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub
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Top Ranking: A Diplo Dub is the first
Diplo, released on July 15, 2008.[1]
Background
Top Ranking features remixes of songs from Santogold's
Hood Nigga" and drumming by Northern Cree, were leaked to the blogosphere prior to the mixtape's release.[2][3][4][5] An alternate version of "Get It Up" featuring Esau Mwamwaya rather than Gorilla Zoe also appeared on the internet.[6] The album was released for a short period of time on the internet as a free download.[7]
The Diplo remix of "I'm a Lady", which features Amanda Blank, was later included in its entirety on Blank's 2009 album I Love You.
After taking inspiration from a Siouxsie and the Banshees song for her track "My Superman" on her debut album,[8] Santogold sampled for this mix tape another song of their Kaleidoscope, "Lunar Camel".
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
Pitchfork Media | (8.0/10.0)[12] |
| Slant Magazine |    [13] |
The mixtape has received comparisons to
Idolator labelled the disc "an entertaining listen, with most of the disparate influences that influence Santogold's debut appearing in one form or another."[18] Slant Magazine said that "Top Ranking's hotness can't—and shouldn't—be downplayed", but also that it doesn't distinguish itself from Piracy Funds Terrorism and that "Santogold's unique essence feels lost amid the clutter."[19]
Top Ranking was named one of 2008's five best mixtapes by The Guardian.[20] The publication also named the Diplo Remix of "I'm a Lady" featuring Amanda Blank one of the "singles" of the year.[21]
Track listing
- "Dub Selection Intro"
- Three 6 Mafia – "Late Night" (Unstoppable Mix)
- Santogold – "Shuv It" (Disco D Blend)
- Santogold – "I'm A Lady" (Diplo Mix feat. Amanda Blank)
- Sir Mix-a-Lot – "Posse on Broadway"
- Santogold – "Lights Out" (Diplo's Panda Bear Mix)
- Aretha Franklin – "Save Me"
- Be Stiff"
- Mesopotamia"
- Gerri and the Holograms – "Gerri and the Holograms"
- Santogold – "Anne" (Switch Mix)
- Santogold – "L.E.S. Artistes" (XXXchange Mix feat. Mavado)
- Cutty Ranks – "Dutty Six Pack"
- Santogold – "You'll Find a Way" (Grame & Switch Mix feat. Kid Cudi) / Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Lunar Camel"
- Richie Spice & Ratatat – "Marijuana"
- Desmond Dekker – "Shanty Town"
- Santogold – "Guns of Brooklyn"
- The Dixie Cups – "Iko Iko"
- Tony Matterhorn – "Big Belly Guns"
- Santogold – "Get It Up" (Radioclit Mix feat. M.I.A., Gorilla Zoe, and Northern Cree)
- Mark Ronson In Studio
- Trouble Andrew – "Run - Hide"
- Sister Nancy – "Pigeon Rock"
- Nora Dean – "Barbwire"
- Shinehead – "Know How Fe Chat"
- Ghetto Defendant"
- Skream & Warrior Queen – "Check It"
- Santogold & Benga– "Unstoppable" / "Night Dub"
- Shawty Lo & Skream – "Dey Know" / "Stagger"
- Santogold – "Creator" (Mumdance Mix feat. Jammer, Badness, Chronik Rage, Slikman and Tempz)
- Xray - "Turbulence Dubplate" (Starstruck Diplo Mix)
- Barrington Levy – "Send a Moses"
- Prince Jazzbo – "Ital Corner"
- Santogold – "Icarus"
- Diplo– "Right Brigade"
Covers and samples
- Near the end of "Dub Selection Intro" is a sound byte from Street Fighter II
- "Late Night" (Unstoppable Mix) by Three 6 Mafia samples Santogold's "Unstoppable"
- Amanda Blank's verse in "I'm a Lady" (Diplo Mix) samples LL Cool J's "I Need Love"[22]
- The end of "Shuv It" (Disco D Blend) samples Shinehead's "Billie Jean"
- Diplo's Panda Bear Mix of "Lights Out" samples "
- "Anne" (Switch Mix) samples "Das Model" and "Nummern" by Kraftwerk
- "Dutty Six Pack" opens with a sample from The Clash's "Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)" from Sandinista! and further samples "Six Pack" by Black Flag
- "You'll Find a Way" (Grame & Switch Mix) / "Lunar Camel" samples "Lunar Camel" by Siouxsie and the Banshees
- "Guns of Brooklyn" is a cover of The Clash's "The Guns of Brixton"[2] and samples "Dub be good to me" from Beats International
- "Iko Iko" by The Dixie Cups is blended with "Ching-a-Ling" by Missy Elliott and samples Clinic's "The Equaliser" from Walking with Thee
- "Big Belly Guns" opens with the intro to "Sonic Reducer" by The Dead Boys and the drums from the Dead Kennedys's "California Uber Alles", closing with its bassline and guitar riff and Street Fighter sound effects.
- "Get It Up" (Radioclit Mix feat. M.I.A. and Gorilla Zoe) samples Hood Nigga",[24] and it also contains a sound byte from Street Fighter II
- "Creator" contains a part of "Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, and "Freaky Gurl" by Gucci Mane.
- "Turbulence Duplate" (Starstruck Diplo Mix) by Xray samples Santogold's "Starstruck"
- The instrumental of "Icarus" is based around "This Is How We Walk on the Moon" by Arthur Russell
- "Right Brigade" is a cover of Bad Brains
References
- Amazon.com. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
- ^ a b c Ehren Gresehover (2008-07-18). "Santogold covers the Clash, sort of". New York. Bruce Wasserstein. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ^ Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ^ Fish Griwkowsky (2022-10-27). ""Northern Cree celebrates 40 years with new record and concert at the Arden Theatre"". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
- ^ "Esau Mwamwaya f. MIA & Santogold, "Get It Up"". The Fader. 2008-08-08. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
- IPC Media. 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
- ^ Hresko, Lisa (2008-04-28). "SANTOGOLD: All That Glitters Is Santogold". CMJ. Archived from the original on 2008-05-02. "'My Superman' is an interpolation of a Siouxsie Sioux song, 'Red Light,'" she explains. "It was inspired by that [song]."
- ^ Exclaim! review
- ^ NME review
- ^ Rolling Stone review
- ^ Pitchfork Media review Archived 2008-08-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Slant Magazine review
- ^ "Santogold vs Diplo". Fact Magazine. Vinyl Factory Publishing. 2008-07-21. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- Pitchfork Media. Archived from the originalon 2008-08-04. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
- ^ IPC Media. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ^ a b "Santogold & Diplo - Top Ranking". Exclaim!. 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ "Diplo, Santogold trip down hip-hop memory lane". Idolator. 2008-07-22. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ Ed Gonzalez (2008-07-30). "Diplo and Santogold: Top Ranking". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
- ^ "2008 in lists: Five best mixtapes out there somewhere to download". The Guardian. 2008-12-13. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ "The Guide's 13 singles of the year". The Guardian. 2008-12-13. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ J. Edward Keyes (2008-07-25). "Single Minded: The Killers, Wu-Tang Clan, Santogold and The Cure". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Archived from the original on July 26, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
- ^ Marc Hogan (2008-08-11). "Pitchfork.tv: Santogold: "Lights Out" [Video]". Retrieved 2008-08-13.
- ^ "Esau Mwamwaya f. MIA & Santogold, "Get It Up"". The Fader. 2008-08-08. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
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