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Alternative Dance Indulgence* - Lovebeat / Testify - 14-Aug-08 10:47 AM
"Lovebeat" is really kind of an embarrassing track encompassing all the worst of 1991--samples from "Moments In Love" by the Art of Noise and Divine in Polyester over the beat from "Energy Flash" by Joey Beltram, with out-of-key pianos and vocal samples over the top.
"Testify", on the other hand, is absolutely wonderful! It's a bouncy piano-and-gospel-vocals affair with a big bleep bassline and the 1991 breaks-plus-4/4-kick-drum rhythm section. One of the few tunes from 1991 that still holds up for a non-"old school" audience context. Absolutely worth hunting down...

Farley Jackmaster Funk* & Hip House Syndicate, The - Free At Last - 20-Apr-06 10:22 AM
The "Acapella" mix isn't really an acapella so much as a dub mix. There is the same drum programming, bassline, and piano as the original, and the chorus is intact, but most of the rap is replaced with more r vocal improvisations about James Brown being the Godfather of Soul.

Kendra - Helping Myself - 26-Oct-05 11:20 AM
Like many Quebecois disco 12"s of the era, the drum & synth programming on this is phenomenal, but the vocal is just appalling. There is an instrumental on the flip, but there isn't really enough going on in the song to make it stand on its own as an instrumental, so I was a little discouraged, and just kind of forgot about it. Then one day, on a whim, I actually flipped it over and LISTENED to the "instrumental" version, only to find out that it is actually a VOCODER VOCAL MIX! It's absolutely fantastic--just what the track needed in the first place.

Hananas - From Here To Eternity - 26-Oct-05 11:19 AM
This is an amazing cover of the Giorgio Moroder classic of the same name, produced by the legendary Mauro Farina. I actually prefer this to the original, as the synth programming is more interesting, and the beat is a lot harder and more driving. This is one of my favorite Farina productions, and is a great curveball to throw at people who are familiar with the Moroder version.

They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18 - 25-Oct-05 02:54 PM
The reason for the umpteen mini-tracks at the end of the album ("Fingertips") was that the concept of the album was that it would be the first CD designed to be played on shuffle. Every audiophile complains about people playing CDs on shuffle & "ruining the flow of an album", so they came up with an album whose 'flow' was meant to be randomly determined. As a result, these "Fingertips" bits are broken up and dispersed between the other tracks on the LP version.

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