Kyny­Nasty Favorites #2

Trans-X, Italo-Disco from Canada. Their sin­gle “Liv­ing On Video” was released 1983 and it was a mas­sive hit world­wide at the time. Now Trans-X is “cel­e­brat­ing 25 years of liv­ing on video” and tour­ing world. The track is aus­pi­cious mate­r­ial for remix­ing and so it has spawned (unfor­tu­nately) many Euro Trance ver­sions. Maybe it wasn’t Gior­gio who invented the evil music called Trance after all?

There is one excep­tion though. Fidget’s cover is actu­ally quite nice synth-pop/indierock ver­sion. Espe­cially when com­par­ing to other ver­sions. It pre­serves the same spirit as the orig­i­nal and has Kraftwerk-esque robots!

Trans-X — Liv­ing On Video (320kbit)

Dam-Funk album promo

Dam-Funk (pro­nounced Dame) is heat­en­ing up teh inter­net. Par­tic­u­larly record collectors/djs are impressed with his dj sets that con­sists unre­leased Roger Trout­man waxes and impos­si­ble to find rare 80s electro-funk, soul and boo­gie plates. HOT!

Bur­gundy City/Galactic Fun 12″ is his first sin­gle on Stones Throw. This is what you get when you sum up the best parts of 80s funk a la Prince, Slave, Roger Trout­man. Debut album will be HOT when it hits. I hereby promise you that. Instant love. More detailed review of the 12″.

Glide (128kbit)
Baron Zen — Burn Rub­ber (Dam-Funk vocal remix) (320kbit)
I Wanna Thank You (256kbit)
Side­wayz (320kbit) Taken from “2K8 B-Ball Zom­bie War” com­pi­la­tion, sound­track to the videogame NBA 2K8.

Dam-Funk — Boo­gie Funk Mix (128kbit) (Stones Throw pod­cast)
Track­list:
1.THE ANTILLES — “I’ve Got To Have You” :: Cre­ole / ‘83
2.GODMOMA — “God­moma Here” :: Elek­tra / ‘81
3.CIRCLE CITY BAND — “Magic” (instr ver.) :: Cir­cle City / ‘83
4.UNO — “Boo­gie Beat” :: Tryon Park / ‘80
5.RAH BAND — “Mes­sages From The Stars” :: TMT / ‘83
6.SIDE ON — “Magic” :: Beg­gars Ban­quet / ‘83
7.SAVANNA — “Never Let You Go” :: R&B / ‘82
8.ZALMAC — “I Get Down” :: TSOB / ‘82
9.VAUGHAN MASON fea­tur­ing BUTCH DAYO — “You Can Do It” (instr. ver.) :: Sal­soul / ‘83
10.WIZARD — “It’s On” :: Choco­late Cholly’s / ‘82
11.GASTON — “Every­where a Funk, Funk” :: Choco­late Cholly’s / ‘81
12.CAROL CHINNETE w/ The Con­crete Band — “Cyanide Love” :: Zilco / ‘84
13.AARON BROOMFIELD — “Polyphase (Instru­men­tal Poly Rythums) :: Moun­tain / ‘83
14.*WYND CHYMES — “Baby You’re The One” :: Shakin’ / ‘80 (*’D-F’; The 1st selec­tor on the west-coast, maybe all of the U.S., to play this par­tic­u­lar ‘orig­i­nal press’ rare 45″ out!)
15.INDEX — “Starlight (The Break)” :: Record Shack of Lon­don / ‘81
16.FIREFLY — “Show Me Tonight” :: Emer­gency / ‘82
17.NEXUS — “Stand Up” (instr. ver) :: Mr. Disc / ‘83
18.JAMES PANTS — “Ka$h” (instr. ver.) :: Stones Throw / ‘07
19.THE VERDICT — “That’s Where I Come In” :: Nuance / ‘8?
20.PEE WEE — “Be My Girl” :: Street­wise / ‘82
21.BARON ZEN — “Burn Rub­ber” (dãm-funk Remix / instr. ver.) :: Stones Throw / ‘07

More hot­ness at Dam-Funk myspace.

Source: arab-music.com

June Chiki Chikuma or Jun Chikuma has cre­ated orig­i­nal music for Bomber­man games since the first one came out in 1985. The one that holds spe­cial place in my heart is Japan-only release of Super Bomber­man 5 released in 1997 for SNES. It has many mem­o­rable melodies and cheer­ful tunes. All in all, fab­u­lous stuff.

Whole sound­track is avail­able e.g. at Zophar’s Domain in .spc for­mat. I’m using SNE­Samp input plug-in for Winamp. Any other player will do as well.

Kyny­Nasty Super Bomber­man 5 top picks (160kbit):
Zone 2
Zone 3
Zone 5A-Electro
Zone 5D-Magnets

SPC Play­ers & SNES music

Couldn’t rec­om­mend this mix enough. This is house at it’s best. Period.

Daft Punk — Essen­tial Mix (BBC Radio 1, 02.03.1997)

Via Masala

Track­list­ing
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There’s lot of new elec­tronic music terms/genres/themes over the past few years. Dub­step is quite self-evident and jus­ti­fied, Skweee is ulti­mately just dis­tin­guish­able style of elec­tro, Bal­ti­more is solely par­ty­mu­sic and “blog house” just futile term (imo New House would be bet­ter). This sum­mer we have yet another theme for music that have existed pretty long time.

Mar­tin Clark calls it “Wonky”, Sasha Frere-Jones “lazer bass”, Mega­soid calls the music “psy­che­delic robo crunk remix action” , Ghis­lain Poirier uses the phrase “bas­tard bass”, edIT offered the phrase “dig­i­tal crunk shit.” and the list goes on. This music has been going on since EL-P  and Def Jux (which strangely no one men­tions when talk­ing about this new gen­er­a­tion of futur­is­tic hip hop shit), Dabrye and Prefuse 73.

I’ve been refer­ring this music just “off-beat” hip hop or lately “Elec­tronic Beats” (which refers closely to Eliot Lipp’s blog of the same name). All I know that I’ve liked it all the time never mind the term. If it’s good. So this is loosely the theme for this months Kyny­Nasty party. Off-beats, Skweee, New House and yes, some Chip­tunes too. The Return of the Boom Bap? Perhaps.

More about “Wonky”:
Mar­tin Clark’s Pitch­fork arti­cle
“Lazer-guided” arti­cle at The New Yorker
“Wonk Fonk”, free mix for down­load
Hud­son Mohawke — Hudson’s Heeters, beat tape (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Off-topic:
What is Wonky techno? Phew, you could spend hours and hours research­ing all the gen­res and styles.