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3 years ago
April 27, 2009
April 25, 2009
Juicy (Fruit)
I’m sure you know where this is going:
Juicy Fruit - Mtume, Juicy Fruit (1983)
I just want to note that Juicy Fruit apparently originally referred to the gum flavor. And that the song is basically a ‘sweets’ themed love song.
I also want to highlight that Mtume and his band really had it going on. Juicy wasn’t just Puffy scoring a randomly dug sample. Check another:
Hip Dip Skippedabeat - Mtume, Juicy Fruit (1983)
3 years ago
April 23, 2009
Acid or Base?
Could this be the kind of place where such solid nothing-but-funk emulsions as this one were created?
Phil Hurtt - Ph Factor Boogie (1979)
Somehow everything in this smooth jam comes together - the voices ride right on top of the bassline to leave no one confused about how to walk across the room (step, dip
step, dip).
I suppose this sort of funk has to be a base. A face melting drain-o. A rotten milk. A mmonia.
3 years ago
April 21, 2009
This is what the Tom Tom Club means when they shout “Bohannon”.
He has many faces and always always makes you move.
Listen to Listen to the Children Play - Hamilton Bohannon, Summertime Groove (1978).
April 17, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Way Area.
Cisco also goes by Don Cisco and Ci$co. Real name Francisco Soto.
Looks like:
I think this is really what hip hop is about, in this weird way. The straight ahead funk based, but clearly hip hop beat. The wide open flow and the range of topics and vocabulary. The guitar solo (?). All coming together with interspersed chanted hooks.
“cause i’m bad to the bone on the microphone”
3 years ago
March 18, 2009
Bomb to Save
Mr. Obama lamented the “stain on our souls” left by the mass death in Darfur and vowed “never again.” Mrs. Clinton called for a no-flight zone. And Susan E. Rice, a top Obama adviser, even envisioned a bombing campaign to save victims.
If only they could find the beat.
http://www.divshare.com/download/6683447-607 (reposted from I Wish You Would)
3 years ago
January 13, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Amok! by Ledernacken and Band (1984).
I got the single of this at the Flea Market 12/27/08. Its on 4th and B’Way records, a subsidiary of Island records that “specialized in street-oriented music such as hip hop”. I thought so, as I was simulateneously scooping a copy of Paid in Full on the same label. Turns out this is happy German dance funky love. Last.fm calls them Disco-Punk: what a wonderful genre.
(make it to 4:10 for the big payoff, and then start doing what they demand)
3 years ago
December 29, 2008
Nursery Rhymes: Rated Funky
People’s Choice - Nursery Rhymes (1975) - (12/20/08)
The best thing about this song, is that it is not about which fairy tale is best, or which has a lesson, or anything else. It is that there is only one lesson in life: each tale ends with the conclusion:
“…they did the boogie/
they boogie on down”
So, “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jumped over the candle stick, He did the boogie, he did the boogie on down”. Same with Humpty and Jack and Jill.
And speaking of Jack and Jill,
Raydio - Jack and Jill (1978) - (12/28/08)
This song also represents a new take on a classic tale. Apparently Jack, “needed love/ love he couldn’t get from Jill’. So he went ‘down the hill’ and ‘got down on his right knee’ and ‘got mud on his hands’. Pretty subtle Ray.
Also, it is not until 0:43 that we see the band, the first 42 seconds are taken up with shots of what look to me like audio apparatuses: radios, microphones, and so forth. What do you think they are? Kitchen appliances or something?
(also, I’ve started dating when I scoop things, and I apologize for the absence of uploads, but I don’t have the proper set up currently, in transition etc. When I get those things, someday, this will become even more qualitative)
3 years ago
December 24, 2008
Nightclubbing
A tale of bass through three versions.
1. 1981, Iggy Pop
2. 1981, Grace Jones
3. 2000, Shyne (he called it Bad Boys)
3 years ago
December 22, 2008
Time Marches On. Listen.
Lee “Scratch” Perry - Time Marches On
(use headphones and listen close if you can)
Seriously. I think that this song literally presents you with the passage of time. Think about it. Something about the halting pace of the drums, like they are trudging somewhere.
And when you are done thinking and listening, see if time hasn’t passed (4:21).
3 years ago