Handsome Boy Modeling School.

So, uhm, about ten years or so i heard a song with such a fantastic melody that it’s been stuck in my head since then. And i don’t make it any better by constantly listen to the song in question, which is, The Truth by Handsome Boy Modeling School. It’s just something about the sampled piano and the way it’s been modified to make it sound more like a beat rather than a piano piece. The sample comes from the song called Coffee Cold by Grant MacDermot, and the original is absolutley bonkers aswell – the raw talent and skill that MacDermot shows is extremely impressive.

Handsome Boy Modeling School’s The Truth is on the album called So…How’s Your Girl? and was released in 1999. It’s an album full of featuring artists that together with the mastermind producers behind the Handsome Boy Modeling School, Prince Paul and Dan the Automator. Prince Paul has worked with acts such as: Gravediggaz, De La Soul and Stetasonic. Dan the Automator has worked with acts such as: Deltron 3030, Gorillaz and Dr. Octagon.

I have this sweetspot for genres and songs that take old sounds and older genres and gives them new life by sampling them or just change up the whole genre by electrifying it. A great example of this is the Austrian musician called Parov Stelar, who is one of the biggest in the renewed genre called electro-swing, which takes the 1920s swing sound and makes it with a type of electronic sound instead. It sounds like a mix between swing and house i’d say.

Unfortunately for us, the listeners, Handsome Boy Modeling School has just released two albums, but if you like the sound you can always check out other projects that Dan the Automator has produced and the same goes for Prince Paul.

Hopefully from now on, you’ll like me, have The Truth stuck in your head.

Until next time, take care.

SLQT.