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Various - Mc Edits - 28-Mar-08 03:43 PM
Nice selection of slo-jams redone as house tracks by unknown producer. While "Reasons" may have been done before, this is a nice take on it. "Sensuality" is cool too, but the real standout is "Guess You Didn't Know", which has been killin it in Chicago, and I love the filter mix which has nice little tweaks to it all the way through.

These are all steppers CLASSICS here in cow-town, and these house versions are nice updates.

Naked Raygun - Throb Throb - 13-Dec-07 03:17 PM
The 2nd LP from Chicago punk superstars is the one that nicely threads the needle between the more willfully obscure sound of Basement Screams, and the more populist woah-woahs of their later output. The political sentiments are well put (pretty pretty boys... onward to Minagua) and Surf Combat features one of my fave Raygun lines... "Muscle Beach is now Porkshop Hill" (which was penned by my friend and former bandmate, Camilo Gonzalez) over a fairly obtuse riff.

Stirring stuff.

Kool Keith - Sex Style - 26-Jul-06 03:08 AM
So over-the-top nasty, you might want to handle it with surgical gloves.

Expect some very scratchy, woofer-shaking funk thats got so much skank that you might be too embarrassed to blow the nasty vocal drip out your jeep.

Bush Tetras - 13-Jun-06 12:33 AM
Chugga chugga.

Great first single only adds to the credibility of 99 Records as a vehicle and Ed B as a visionary. Snakey white boy punk-funk that doesn't try to be black, but has a good time getting sweaty.

I saw them in a little gallery in Seattle around 1980 and they were the real deal. They were fun and funky, and all cool NYC and standoffish at the same time. Laura Kennedy was hot, Pat Place was cool, and Dee Pop laid down the jerky new-wave funk beat.

I still have the 99 single and I rate "You Taste Like The Tropics" right up there with "Contort Yourself" as an example of what this scene was all about.

Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Strange Strings - 09-May-06 07:24 AM
This is one crazy-ass record!

Besides being one of the rarer Ra outings is very string-heavy, which is very unusual for Ra, with every single member of the ensemble joining in the attack.

On top of that there is this weird gargling vocal thing going on. Seriously, it sounds like the man has a throat full of Listerine.

This is also the first Sun Ra record I ever heard. I bought it at a 2nd hand shop around 1972-73 after hearing my high school math teacher tell me about a Ra gig he saw at the Stanford University planetarium.

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