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Eurominds-themalerapper/female Of Hiphoprisy leader Michael Franti's SINGLES singer, youknow-it's OK-ed. ALBUMS latest project, or have we dug up an old album from Gil Scott -Heron out of the 2W0 THIRD3 G. LOVE &SPECIAL SAUCE NAOMICAMPBELL '70s? It's hard to tell, but what really mat- I Want The World - Epic EHR/D Cold Beverage - Okeh R/A Babywoman - Epic EHR/D/A ters is that rap's got soul here plus its origi- PRODUCER: Other Thirdz PRODUCER: StiffJohnson PRODUCER: T. Simenon/G. Friday/Youth/J. nalpoliticalload.Insteadof gangsta Early '80s synth pop a la Human League Cool coke becomes boiling hot with this Strauss/B. Roberts/PM Dawn macho, Franti tackles really important sub- and Depeche Mode resurfaces in a contem- innovating trio, who mix the unmixable, Not justa pretty face! A lot of "real jectslikeAIDS(Positive)orracial porary pop dance framework. Don't reward namely blues and rap. With a nervous num- singers" will be green with envy when they hypocrisy by whites(DreamTeam). A their greed for the world, give them EHR ber like this they'll drive waitresses nuts, hear the sophisticated single Love & Tears. milestone album. instead. but you're active in radio... Okay, super models have friends in high places; with so many top dance producers SWING OUT SISTER BOMB THE BASS THE PROCLAIMERS it couldn't have gone wrong. Covers are The Living Return - Mercury ACE/EHR These Arms Of Mine - ChrysalisACE/C/EHR well-chosen all-time trendy songs (T-Rex's PRODUCER: Ray Hayden/Swing Out Sister PRODUCER: Pete Wingfield Ride A White Swanand Zoe's Sunshine On Layingdown by the pool with a tropical The Scottish twins show how small the gap A Rainy Day). New material (Picnic In The cocktail, nobody can portray a mundane between original soul music and "white Rain) is, of course, hip by nature. setting like S.O.S.. When the jazzy soft man's soul" actually is, by turning the Otis soul sister sings Ordinary People, it almost Redding ballad in a sulky wet country ICE MC clashes with the jet set character. The sin- tearjerker. Ice 'N' Green -DWA D/EHR gle La La (Means I Love You) isthe PRODUCER: Robyx Delfonics ('68) song in a world of wealth. REEL 2 REAL FEAT. THE MAD STUNTMAN Ice Cube, Ice T. and Ice MC. Despite their If you prefer it less polished, try the bonus Can You Feel It? - Positive D/EHR obsession with ice, they've found three dif- six -track CDLive At The Jazz Cafe. PRODUCER: Erick "More" Morillo ferent ways to defrost the airwaves. Italy's Stunting in the chart ring, this lot has two contender, the MC thatis,is the Euro THESE ANIMAL MEN aces up its sleeve. If it's not the Euro set-up dance kind as we've seen from the hits (Come On, Join) The High Society - RiseR/A Bug Powder Dust - 4th & Broadway D/A/EHR that hits you K.O., then the ragga angle Think About The Way andIt'sA Rainy Day. PRODUCER: Dave Erringa PRODUCER: Tim Simenon will work as the definitive uppercut. But he's much more than just vintage conti- Not everybody with a Brentford-shopping- Long time, no hear. Kamikaze Simenon nental, and is branching out into ragga as centre-haircutisa punk per defmition. and co-pilot Justin Warfield firetheir REBECCA DE RUVO well (Labba Ling). Short -haired, oh yes they are, but musically rocked -up dance missile into Rage Against I Caught You Out -Arista D/EHR they're too complex too be caught in the The Machine-ry. PRODUCER: David Anthony THE LOVED ONES media's latest "new wave of punk" trap. Is it an epidemic? Not really. Unlike MTV Better Do Right - Hightone R/A/ACE Sonically and lyrically they're as "in yer JOCELYN BROWN & KYM MAZELLE Europe VI colleagues Steve Blame and PRODUCER: Scott Matthews/BruceBromberg face" as the '70s upstarts were, that's true. Gimme All Your Lovin' - Bell D/EHR Ray Cokes, whirl girl Rebecca used to be a Wouldn't it sometimes be nice to have a With a producer like Erringa who learned PRODUCER: Stock & Aitken/Dean Murphy vocalist and she's picking up her singing warning sign with a capital B to alert music his craft on a job for the Manic Street Producers Stock & Aitken know as much career again. lovers of the approaching dreaded trio: Preachers,they'veconfidentlysailed about sequencers as misters Gibbons, Hill blues, beer and boredom? But you can take around Cape Nostalgia, as Sitting Tenant- and Beard. Besides ZZ Top songs always THE SEPTEMBER WHEN it away for Oakland's sensational Loved punk, pop, reggae in one-aptly shows. fare better with chicks around, don't they? Cries Like A Baby -WEA EHR/ACEA Ones! They're young rascals who play da PRODUCER: Steve Lovell blues with the punch of a garage rock band. THE TRAGICALLY HIP ANDREAS CARLSON Right on time, the Norwegian pop band Their second album (within one year) is Those Were The Best Days -Soul Food/RCA ACE/EHR delivers the first single off its new album less bluesy, adding Stax-infused soul and (0.0 PRODUCER: Bag Hugger Mugger, the kind of big ballad '60s "beat" to their repertoire. You won't If you want the definition of blue-eyed R.E.M. wouldn't be ashamed of. find another singer as snotty -but -wise as soul, then you found your man with this Bart Davenport. Crazy Gone Lover and 1)Ay cve NtoAT Swede. Furthermore, the single is a fine SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS Wishy Washy Woman are naughtily direct example of producer Anders "Bag" Bagge's I'm Going All The Way -Perspective D/EHR R&B, whereas soulful numbers like Bad work outside dance. PRODUCER: Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis/ DreamandWhat Is Love?show that even +is Gary Hines brats sometimes know how to "behave RAY COKES & THE SEX GODS Churches and clubs have a reputation of well." OPIV1111164111111_ 421,4011e* Simply Sexy - Mega EHR/D generating quite a spirit. Combine these PRODUCER: TBM 1 two, and this is what you get. The gospel R.E.M. "Shake your bum" tothissexybeat. choir swings like hell on a powerful swing - Monster - WarnerBrothers R/A/EHR/ACE Assisted by Danish rapper Al Agami, the beat. PRODUCER: Scott Litt/R.E.M. MTV Europe NU shares a few of his trade- What's next? That questionisnot the mark jokes. And no, camera man Rob-his SUEDE exclusive territory of that other blockbuster inseparable mate-is not around. The Wild Ones - Nude A/R act with an alternative background, U2. Day For Night -MCA R/A PRODUCER: Ed Buller The deliberately monotonous track King Of PRODUCER: Mark Howard/Mark Vreeken/ GLORIA ESTEFAN For the first time, the Anderson assembly Comedy is R.E.M.'sNumb.And Stipe tries The Tragically Hip Turn The Beat Around- Crescent Moon/Epic EHR/D/ACE live up to their name. Semi -acoustic with his first -ever falsetto on Tongue, like Bono ...Thereisa housein New Orleans... PRODUCER: Emilio EstefanJr./Lawrence P. Dermer violins and all, bad ass Brett recalls forgot- squeezing aLemon.Everybody seems to OwnedbywitchcraftdoctorDaniel Estefan revives her Miami Sound Machine ten heroes like Ian McCullough and Scott fuss about R.E.M. using guitars, but hasn't Lanois, it's a studio where all artists rise days of fatback disco by covering an old Walker. the Georgian quartet always been the defin- above the sun. For the second time in their Vicky Sue Robinson song. It's featured on ition of a guitar band? Really new is the career, Canadians "the Hip" have cut an both the OST The Specialist and her own KARYN WHITE Johnny Marr-patented "helicopter guitar" album in the Crescent City, and again it upcoming album. Bay Radio/St. Julian Hungah - Warner Brothers D/EHR of How Soon Is Now on various tracks, puts the alternative swamp rockers miles (Malta)head of music Clem Dalton PRODUCER:Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis including the absolutely majestic single ahead of the pack. Not many bands can remembers the original very well. "It was a White changesdirection by invading into What's The Frequency, Kenneth?. People boast an ongoing development after four US top 10 hit back in '76. I can still picture Janet Jackson -controlled territory with a who embrace the Georgians automatically albums. It's the same "teen angst on the the artwork of that single. In my opinion it swingbeat number that willstir up the shouldgetwiththeballadStrange plank" as ever, but embedded in a far more should've been covered a long time ago, dance format this autumn. Excitement has Currencies a worthy successor to loose concept of jams rather than songs. It's and Gloria has done a good job with it." alreadysurrounded The Voice/Copen- Everybody Hurts. - like they've thrown all their "drone" tricks hagen. PD Eik Frederiksen describes it as over board in favour of more openness. LOOK TWICE "A new school swingbeat record, which is SPEARHEAD Fire In The Hole and Thugs introduce a Mr. Dance & Mr. Groove -MNW D/EHR far less keyboard -dominated than the first Home - Capitol D/A breathing Mitchell Froom-esque percussion PRODUCER: Le'Cream wave of the genre. The beat is more promi- PRODUCER:Michael Franti/Joe "The Butcha" mode. For sure that Gordon Downie has In an ideal world of groovy dance records nent-more hip hop-influenced-andit Nicola chased all voodoo spirits out of Lanois's these two misters would be one and the suits White very well. A hit, if you ask Rap in a live band context returns to its temple with the suspenseful semi -acoustic same. But as schizophrenia always runs in me." place of origin. Is it ex -Disposable Heroes ballad Scared.

Singles and albums featured in New Releases are listed alphabetically. Each record is recommended for format or programme suitability. Abbreviations used include: EHR, ACE, R (Rock), D (Dance), C (Country), J (Jazz), EZ! (Easy Listening), NAC (New Adult Contemporary), A (AItemative), W(World) and M (Metal). Please send your samples to Robbed Tilli/Machgiel Bakker, Music & Media, PO Box 9027, 1006AAAmsterdam, Holland.

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