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Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow - 22-Oct-07 12:20 PM
It sounds really, really tinny. Although the songs are good I find it excruciating to listen to. On the back of the album it says "Direct metal mastered from digital tapes". I can only imagine that this is the cause of the terrible, terrible sound of this album, due to crap digital technology, but then.. I don't know. I own the 'I Wanna Know If It's Good To You' 45 from the album and that sounds fine. Suffice to say, this pressing of 'Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow' sounds absolutely terrible/unbearable.

Detromental - X Amount Of Respect - 05-Oct-07 02:18 PM
I went round to their studio (in the attic room of a house in Sheffield) as a fresh-faced 15 year old. They said "check out our new tune" and played 'X Amount of Respect'. Fat sub bassline, kicking break... H-h-h-hardcore electronic ragga rave breakbeat stuff. I wasn't totally convinced by the emerging breakbeat rave tunes at the time and much prefered and still prefer their other tunes which have a more original, raw electronic sound (basically analogue drum machines and bleeps!). There is a very dark undergound vibe going on in all of their output (especially 'Doin Damage') and this is no exception, but this is a totally, totally different sound to their three other E.P's. I still find it hard to believe it's the same people. Breakbeat ragga rave. Not bad, but doesn't touch 'Doin Damage'.

Asmo - Jam The Dance - 02-Aug-07 05:41 AM
'Music Please' is the one that used to rock the dancefloors up my end in 1990/1. A real deep, dark, underground, 'rain forest' vibe. DEEP sub-toms and a crowd chant of 'replay, replay, replay, replay!'. 'Music please..... just gimmie some....... music please....'. The toms verge on clonky bleeps in the breakdowns, somewhat reminiscent of Pyschotropic. Classic underground tune.
'Jam The Dance' is an old school piano tune with a piercing string sample that many a person has had a loved-up time to. It features a sample of the singing from Blackbox's Ride on Time (actually Loleatta Holloway) which is cut up and used well enough to not turn the tune into a cheese-fest....