Moodymann - J.A.N.

Possibly Kenny's best single, JAN is a certified dancefloor killer. The samples are from Detroit funk radio DJ Electrifyin Mojo's interview with Prince circa the Purple Rain tour. Kenny edited it up to make it sound like he was talking about him instead, which makes for a brilliant epic feeling for the track.

"j.a.n." stands for Just Another Niggah, with reference to a track orginally recorded by Marvin Gaye, with whom kenny seems to source for many of his releases, both musical and for lable artwork. Other strong leanings towards the daddy of soul are "Sunday Morning" (when marvin was shot by his father), "Joy ptII" (from the orginal track by marvin), "Tribute" (samples "inner city blues"), and the list goes on. buy any Marvin album and spot the samples, its clear to see how a talent like Gaye can be such a huge influence and source of inspiration. respect, for without him what would us kdj heads have?

In regard to the other comments: My copy does not even have a catalog# and I wonder why it's called "Jan" when there is no title on the label? Is "Jan" a nick name that somebody made up and what about the catalog#, I reckon it got released after KDJ 29 and that's why it got the catalog# KDJ 30. Anybody can clear this up?

Messy release history on this one - first slated to be KDJ 16 (and probably released on whites at the time, although I can't verify that), this record was pulled after the "controversy" over KDJ 15. It then appeared on a 200-copy white label, JAN 001, and got serious word of mouth that was encouraging enough to convince Kenny to press it here. It doesn't actually say "KDJ 30" in the matrices, but rather had that number invented for it by long-suffering Moodymann distributors.

maybe the best moodyman release so far, begins with moodyman typical dissonant "deephouse" style and after 2/3 of the record twists into a more jazzy groove, comparable withe his remix for carl craig's "people make the world go round". hammmer!