Going through a stack of records which I bought last sum­mer but haven’t really played or lis­tened at all. The track Any­way I Gotta Swing It got my atten­tion. It appears on Night­mare On Elm Street 5: Dream War­riors sound­track and is pro­duced by Full Force. Nice, lively new jack swing groove and nat­u­rally the musicvideo uses the same setup as the movie. We need more videos that fea­ture Fred­die Krueger jam­ming!

Col­lab­o­ra­tion between DJ Flash & King MC as Future MC’s. Known for numer­ous “mock­ery” rap-versions of famous songs such as State of Shock (Jack­sons), Bev­erly Hills Cop theme and Erotic City. They also worked together before in the Rap­pers Rapp Group.

And yeah, gonna try to get some tick­ets for Prince con­cert (Helsinki 15.10). Let’s see if it’s really gonna happen.

Young MC with a clas­sic (and happy) funky rap hit for these (and those) nasty hot sum­mer days:

“…1989 sin­gle by the rap­per Young MC. It won the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Rap Per­for­mance. It appeared on his album Stone Cold Rhymin’ and was his biggest hit, reach­ing #7 on the Bill­board Hot 100 and top­ping the charts in Aus­tralia. The song fea­tured guest vocals by Crys­tal Blake and bass gui­tar by Red Hot Chili Pep­pers bassist Flea, both of who also appeared in the video. The song has been fea­tured in count­less tele­vi­sion pro­grams and films.” –Wikipedia

One of my favourites. Bust a move and enjoy!

Sly & Rob­bie — Yes We Can Can (320k)

This could maybe be described as a cover ver­sion of a cover ver­sion. The Pointer Sis­ters made a cover of Yes We Can which is a song by Allen Tou­s­saint with Lee Dorsey on vocals. Then Sly & Rob­bie got also down with it.

I bought the Sly & Rob­bie LP “Rhythm Killers” in sum­mer 2006. It’s the album that has “Yes We Can Can” in it. I was expect­ing some reg­gae or dance­hall stuff when I bought the LP. Boy, was I dis­ap­pointed at the time. Any­ways this tune I was feel­ing already then since it’s been used in the open­ing sequence of a Finnish com­i­cal tele­vi­sion show Pult­ti­bois. Now­days I find “Rhythm Killers” being a solid album fus­ing funk, new wave, hip-hop, and even some rock stuff with hip-hop and Jamaican styled vocals. Peo­ple like Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Wor­rell were part of the crew mak­ing the album.

A review in Rolling Stone mag­a­zine puts it like this:

Rhythm Killers is a thirty-five-minute dance party full of sur­prises and strange noises — you never know when Dun­bar will start play­ing heavy-metal drums or some­one will whis­tle the theme to Mas­ter­piece The­atre. Bridg­ing clas­sic funk and early hip-hop, Rhythm Killers sounds like the Great Miss­ing DJ Set — albeit one played by live musi­cians with per­fect telepathy.

Who­dini — Rap Machine (320) (medi­afire)
Been enjoy­ing the new Mesak LP which is out now on Har­mö­nia. Lis­ten to the teaser here. Buy the vinyl and you’ll get 320 kbps mp3 down­load for free. That’s the way to do it, I like it.

Who­dini is surely one of my favorite rap-groups of the eight­ies. Here’s a track which could be filed under “proto skweee”. Or per­haps we should ask what the pio­neers think of that.