In
70's there was a small bunch of truly talented jazz musicians in Finland that
made a few total classic LPs. Keyboard player Olli Ahvenlahti was one of them
and his band consists of the cutting edge of the Finnish jazz musicians of that
decade. Early 70's groovy dancefloor jazz made a splash on the little Finnish
jazz scene and "Grandma's Rocking Chair" can be seen as a highlight of that
era. "Grandma's Rocking Chair" was originally released on Olli Ahvenlahti's
"The Poet"-album (Love Records LRLP 168, 1976) and re-released as a single on
Jazzpuu in 2001.
In 2000 a US house producer Kenny Dope made a bootleg
for his own Dopewax label from "Grandma's Rocking Chair" that he called "The
Illout". He probably did the remix without knowing what the track was. Most
likely the track was taken from a "Finnish Jazz 66-75"-bootleg album. That
conclusion comes from "The Illout" drum fill which is sampled from another track
from the same bootleg (Matti Oiling's "Oiling Boiling", from "Happy Jazz
Band"-album, Finnlevy SFLP 9508, 1970). "Boiling Oiling" is Dope's re-worked
beat track.