Mantronix - never spoken about as influence on house / rave?
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The King of Pussy Gettin
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you clearly did not spend the 80s in miami or nyc, as quite a few of the folks i was around back then were utterly in awe of him
No, I grew up in mid-size southern cities where the people I knew that were into hip hop weren't near as taken by Mantronix and/or they thought it was too nerdy sometimes.
I mean, they didn't hate it, and some people like my cousins still had the records, but I never knew anyone where it was one of their favorite artists like they were for me.
william_kent
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I had a "who is it" double pack that I stupidly sold for drug money
every tune was a killer
Mantronix - Who is it? ( dance mix )
Mantronix - Who is it? ( dub )
Mantronix - Ladies ( revived )
Mantronix - Bassline ( stretched )
"I'm here to perform for the ladies tonight!"
one of my favourite moments on BBC Radio Lancashire's Sunday afternoon show, "On the Wire" was when Lee Perry was a guest and Steve Barker played a Mantronix tune and Perry went all schizo word association: "Mantronix, man electronics, man 666, number of the beast, antichrist, Rasta must bun down Vatican" etc..
every tune was a killer
Mantronix - Who is it? ( dance mix )
Mantronix - Who is it? ( dub )
Mantronix - Ladies ( revived )
Mantronix - Bassline ( stretched )
"I'm here to perform for the ladies tonight!"
one of my favourite moments on BBC Radio Lancashire's Sunday afternoon show, "On the Wire" was when Lee Perry was a guest and Steve Barker played a Mantronix tune and Perry went all schizo word association: "Mantronix, man electronics, man 666, number of the beast, antichrist, Rasta must bun down Vatican" etc..
qwerty south
no use for a witticism
read yesterday that the beat was performed live when it was recorded. not sure if true...
qwerty south
no use for a witticism
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qwerty south
no use for a witticism
the king of the beats!
mvuent
Void Dweller
"king of the beats" was unquestionably accurate at the time. i have a hunch that everyone who was really good at drum programming in the 90s studied mantronix in the 80s. the music can be headspinning, violent, disorienting, but even at its most adventurous it feels super precisly articulated and in-the-pocket. this stuff isn't exactly the start of a new aesthetic sensibility but it's the first high point.
william_kent
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ELECTRONIC ENERGY!
Mantronix - Electronic Energy of...
a banger
bass drum and snare hit so hard, a master of drum machine programming, and those toms and rim shots
I once watched a documentary featuring the "dark side" of whistling* but unforgivably it didn't feature this tune
* it's a real documentary about competitive whistling called "Pucker Up" - the "dark side" had to do with V2 rockets which "whistled" and my favourite b&w actor, Peter Lorre with his sinister trill in "M"
Mantronix - Electronic Energy of...
a banger
bass drum and snare hit so hard, a master of drum machine programming, and those toms and rim shots
I once watched a documentary featuring the "dark side" of whistling* but unforgivably it didn't feature this tune
* it's a real documentary about competitive whistling called "Pucker Up" - the "dark side" had to do with V2 rockets which "whistled" and my favourite b&w actor, Peter Lorre with his sinister trill in "M"