Featuring such as Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Herbie Hancock, Grandmixer DST, Shinehead, Half Pint and Rammellzee, the fascinating 0-102⅔bpm P’funky bassline weaver is just one edited part of the Jamaican rhythm team’s imminent marathon LP exploration of the Ohio Players’ old ‘Fire’...
. . . Island have promoed a great sleazily pattering jiggly slow 90bpm radical US remake of Animal Nightlife ‘Love Is Just The Great Pretender‘ . . . The Style Council, notwithstanding my criticism of their need to appear on ‘6.20 Soul Train’, sound quite soulful on...
NORMAN COOK’s excellent funkily cohesive 106-108½-106-107-105-107-109-105⅔bpm James Brown ‘She’s The One (Funky Drummer Remix)‘ (Urban URBA 13) cleverly incorporates the drum riff from ‘Funky Drummer’ with drop-ins from Bobby Byrd and other JB-type stuff (Norman, incidentally...
Total Contrast return, rapping briefly, in an amazing samples woven jiggly tugging 108⅝bpm running synch between the James Brown ‘Funky Drummer’ break beat and bass jogged Cheryl Lynn classic, ‘Encore’ (as big an enduring underground “sleeper” from 1984 as ...
) — the funky drummer “rhythm” behind the hauntingly familiar melody from Vangelis’ ‘Chung Kuo‘ (you might not previously have known its name although you’ll recognise the tune immediately), flipped by the ’70s snippets-plundering tranquil tinkly trotting ‘Bless The Funk‘ (115bpm)....
JAMES BROWN ‘Payback (The Final Mixdown)’ (Urban URBA 17) Norman Cook and Streets Ahead’s brilliant totally new 0-110⅙-0bpm megamix is even more compulsively danceable, ironing out the rough spots as it smoothly integrates all that it uses to a continuous ‘Funky Drummer’ beat — ...
(ie: James Brown?) … Urban’s next James Brown EP will feature ‘She’s The One’, ‘Funky President’, ‘Funky Drummer’ and ‘Funky Drummer Bonus Beats’, all the basis of many recent rap ‘n’ scratch releases … 1988’s Technics UK DJ Mixing Championships area heats will be (...
Instantaneously powerful Rodney Brown-prod/penned remorseless jiggly snapping 109½bpm chugger in the Jenny Burton/Jocelyn Brown class (inst flip), destined to be huge. ADVANCE: ‘Take Me To The Top (Remix)’ (Belgian BMC BMC-3528)
118-118¾bpm ‘If You Don’t Work, You Can’t Eat‘, the 113-112bpm ‘Hot Pants…I’m Coming, Coming, I’m Coming‘, and an instrumental 112⅔-112bpmBonus Beatsof the latter specially created by Timmy Rogers so that UK mixers could have a new ‘Funky ...
Marshall Jefferson programmed the drums for a house-cum-rare groove smash that trendily cuts in James Brown yells, as on the original ‘JB Traxx’, on the 121bpm ‘JB In Heat’ and ‘JB Traxx II’, 118¼bpm ‘Lowdown ‘N’ Funky’ and 118½bpm ‘At The Organ’ variations.Continu...