Choon of the Day, redux

william_kent

william_kent

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Pretty Tony - Fix It in the mix [0]

ELECTRO FUNK!

808 ( or OBX? ) beats / Smashing glass / laser beams / caped wizard pitch bends

VOCODER COMMANDS TO DANCE!

Lay down some cardboard and spin on your back. [1]
When you're doing a break you can't give up your slack
Okay everybody you heard what he said
If you're real good then spin on your head

*breaking glass*



[1] I have a cardboard box story:

One day I was opening up the UK's first Internet cafe and the proprietor of the local free newspaper was there, standing at the door, and he machine gunned fast fired questions at me "What's your philosophy?" - "what to you hope to achieve?" - "Do you have a MISSION STATEMENT!?" and I looked at his face and it was pretty ASHEN for a POC and I looked down and there were pools of blood and the femur of his right leg was poking through his jeans and I could SEE THE MARROW and I said to him "maybe you should sit down, you're bleeding" ( an understatement, there was POOLS of blood"...

to be continued at the next GREAT NORTHERN DISSENSUS MEETUP

[0] another strand in my research into the tangled web of Henry Stone exploitation labels / cocaine smuggling and distribution with KC of the GANG as a Lieutenant / crack smoke fogged birth of Miami bass
 
william_kent

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here's another PRETTY TONY production

I've been obsessed with this tune for the last few months


FREESTYLE - DON"T STOP THE ROCK

I went to a party and what did I see
The girls were wearing leather skirts and see-through jeans
I asked the deejay to tell me what was going on
He said Freestyle's having a freak-a-thon
Freestyle's kickin' in the house tonight
Move your body from left to right
To all you freaks, don't stop the rock
A freak-a-thon
 
william_kent

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All you ladies interested in the words I speak
We will be rockin' like this every night of the week
And all you fellows tell the ladies "Don't stop the rock"
Because you know that we'll be jammin' all around the clock

#dissensus
 
william_kent

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Hortense Ellis - Hell and Sorrow ( Fe-Me-Time )

I love songs featuring strong women telling men to the get the fuck out of their life:

After I give you all my tenderness
look what you gave to me baby

HELL AND SORROW

After you gain all my sympathy
Look what you made for me

TOIL AND TROUBLE
AND MISERY

GET OUT OF MY LIFE I TELL YOU BABY
YOU DON"T KNOW HOW TO TREAT ME RIGHT

etc

Jimmy Radway productions on Fe-Me-Time label are my holy grails, almost a 100% hit rate but there is one duff tune which I won't mention, but I was going to start a thread of my favourite labels and this one would have featured, drunken rant follows...with maybe an anecdote about the closing down sale at the Manchester Jazz record store with a secret upstairs section where me, DJ Manners, and BREDDA JOSEPH fought hand and tooth over marked down dub albums

( edit: recently reissued on the 333 label if you care )

edit: Jammy, when he was still a "prince" ( before he ordered the hit on Tubby and claimed the crown, allegedly ) had a go at reworking the tune, but it is weak and lacking compared to the Jimmy Radway original, I'll let you be the judge


Hortense Ellis - Hell and Sorrow ( Jammys )

nice dub on the b side I have to admit but doesn't compare to Jimmy Radway's dub version:


JIMMY RADWAY & THE FE ME TIME ALL STARS - HELL AND SORROW

edit: the 333 reissue has a DJ version by Big Youth on the B side unlike the OG press I lust after


Big Youth - Tribulation

"not quite what I was hoping for"

I don't understand the fuss over Big Youth

drunken word association: BIG YOUTH / BIG UNITED

when I lived in Scotland the local gang was "BUNDY" = "BIG UNITED NEVER DIE YOUNG" but that's probably because they ran like pussy when the FEGS from Ferguslie Park came running with at them with their swords swinging, etc
 
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