As hip-hop heads know, the habit of producers and DJs saying their name, usually the year, and various ‘uh’ and ‘uh yeah’s, throughout a track has been as longstanding a tradition in the genre as date rape is in college fraternities. 

On one end of the spectrum is the DJ Clue approach which, for those that aren’t familiar, involves yelling shout-outs over the entire track with an echo effect apparently designed by black business-owners to keep white people from loitering outside. At the other end, Pete Rock takes a less invasive approach, and as far as I know invented the practice, with stoned and subtle flourishes that tend to add more than they subtract. Saying that, when asked to remix the new, Beatlesesque Yo La Tengo single, you’d think he could have taken the cue from producers like Brian Wilson or Martin Hannett and left the mic off on this one.

Yo La Tengo – Here to Fall (Pete Rock Remix) (right click to download) 6:11 mins/ 160 kbps/ 7.08MB