KynyNasty

Entertaining “pre-Darren Emerson era” Underworld tune.  Sonny & Rico approved!

Forgotten synth-pop group from Finland. They released only one album. Vocalist Jari Karjalainen gained succes in the 90′s, with his “humoristic” eurodancegroup Hausmylly.

Modern times caught up with KynyNasty after slight break from blogging game. No downloadable tunes right now. Uh uh anyways, Shep Pettibone assortment @ Spotify. That’s that modern, eh? Edits. Remixes. Re-mixes. Re-edits. Re-mix-edits. One of the most prolific club DJ’s of the 1980s. Whatever?! Do listen. Toppen.

Selected remixing credits at Wikipedia for king Pettibone. Pretty impressive if u know your 80s & 90s pop stuff.

Bonus: ole Kyny post ->
Bros – Drop The Boy (The Shep Pettibone Dub Mix)

Marcel King – Reach For Love (320k)

This is what happened yesterday. I was walking home, mi belly full after late lunch, my thoughts deeply on difficulties of life. And there it was, near the sidewalk, down this little bank. Something round and black sticking out of the snow. Had to get down immediately, and within few steps there I was: kneedeep in snow with this 12″ in my hands. Quickly to home and some trusty ole AM Record Cleaner consumed. So here we go.

This song appears to have been a definite floorfiller at the legendary Hacienda club in Manchester, Great Britain – hence – a party banger? I’m starting to get fixated on extending the meaning of this bit pointless term. Current view seems to be too limited. Anyways few of the producers involved with this song would be some dudes called Donald Johnson (known from A Certain Ratio) and Bernard Sumner (of New Order). Below some juicy details on how this song came onto being.

Rumour has it that New Order’s manager, Rob Gretton (a huge northern soul fan himself), found his hero Marcel sleeping homeless in the back of a car. Enthusiastically, Marcel was asked to make the record which was produced by the Bernard Sumner/ Donald Johnson, Be Music/ Dojo music axis, giving it an electronic based powerful rhythm and bass line riff possibly influenced by Giorgio Moroder with its repetitive and demanding sequencing. The song is certainly a precursor to the rock/dance crossover genre.

The vocal range and control on ‘Reach For Love’ was exceptionally high level, both from a technical and emotional stand. The record was perhaps too intense for daytime airplay but was certainly one of the great lost hits of the 1980s. It’s incredibly baffling how nobody has ever covered the song since.
- http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1851

The b-side Dub Version is also nice. No kick drum at all, some synthbass flourishes, guitar and synth licks here and there. Snare and claps plus conga/bongo percussion running through the whole 7 minutes and 39 seconds. And the vocals of course, in style of dub mixes familiar from lots of 80s songs, cut up from time to time, delayed and reverbed. Definitely a Dj tool – to be so worked out like a m*****f***ker.

Whoever it was, being maybe bit frustrated, maybe even a frustrated dj, thinking: “F**k it, to hell with this 12″, NOBODY LISTENS TO THIS 80S SHIT!” – my sincere thanks go there. Made my day, especially as Marcel King’s advice is mostly the sorta everyone likes to hear from family & friends sometimes. Or from a vinyl record.

“Stormtrooper in Drag” by the late Paul Gardiner is often credited to Gary Numan. Maybe because Numan contributed not only the production and co-composing but also played, sang the lead vocals and released it on his label.

After this release the pair drifted away because of Gardiners escalating drug use. This alienated Numan, who himself claimed absistence of drugs. The lyrics of Stormtroopers in Drag and the death of Paul Gardiner both had something to do with drugs.

Paul Gardiner – Stormtroopers in Drag (320 kbps)