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tery beats driven enthusiastic 0-109 5/61Dpm ter- chart long before that, this anti-drugs (0+ rific Gail 'Sky' King remix of the Maze quoting 123 4/5-124-124 /14 bpm "street - rap IFEENILICCES

insistent infectious "bass - beat boosting rap, by MC Nisih (pronounced Na -see) scurries and with a brilliant percussion breakdown halfway scrubs along like an express train through its POZITIV NOIZE 'I Feel Fine (Magic — better by far than 'Get On The Dance Get Hip Or Get Lost version, scratching in Juan Mix)' (Urban URBA 30), really (rather than sampling) the Reddings' "get funky Floor' — flipped by the much less bright good thuddingly bounding far more 109 2/3bpm Album Version and new 109 /12 bpm get down -,Kay Gees' "move, right yea -,and solid and convincing 124-0bpm Dub Version, plus the LP's Teddy Riley Clair Hicks & Love Exchange's "are you ready -style remix with mumbling male arranged 0- I10 /12 bpm 'Check This Out', a for this", which usefully make aSampella follow- murkily jerking hip house scrubber sampling ing the short instrumental comments, EPMD 'I'm Housin' Marshall Jefferson's 'Move Your Body'. (0-)123 /12 bpm M-D-Emm Provide The Beat, (Simon Harris Remix)' (Sleeping flipped by the bassier bubbling urgent 123 /12 - Bag Records SBUKR 7T), densely CORPORATION OF ONE 123 4/sbpm Get Hip DJ and more sparsely slithering and scrubbing (0-) 'The Real Life' bounding 123 /12 -124bpm Get Hip Homeboy 1062/3ispen revamped droning mumb- (Desire WANT x 16) versions. Sheena Easton ler: THE FOUR TOPS 'Indestructible Now rightly credited as composed also by Sim- (Infinity Dance Mix)' (Arista 612 tracks, the inoffensively worded (unless you ple Minds and Freddie Mercury, this Freddy INNER CITY 160), dreadful ponderoulsy thudding count "screwing" and "ding-a-ling" as dirty) Bastone created jittery bass bumped (0-)120 1/3- 'Ain't Nobody Better (Duane and jiggling 106-0bpm largely in- slow jolting 79 /12 bpm 'I Ain't Tha l• (as in "I 0bpm old fashioned Man Parrish-type freestyle/ Bradley "Detroit's Burning" ain't the one") is a cynical conversation be- Latin hip hop electro instrumental not only Mix)' strumental tedious remix of the currently tween an adoring if mercenary plaintive girl and scratches in its "is this the real life" title line (10 Records TEN x252) ha rted reissue rapper Ice Cube, best summed up by the clos- from Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' but also (as Powerfully acappella introed then eventually ing exchange: "But you said you loved me. - "I several readers have pointed out) uses the Paris Grey wailed smakcing 0-119bpm techno of them end up preaching and wailing about the don't see no rings on this finger. - "Why you synth track from 'Theme For Great Cities' off shuffle and thump in the usual style but possibly need for money (samples washed (0-). doing me like this? 1love you." "Yeah, you love Simple Minds' 1981 album 'Sister Feelings'. Slow without so uplifting a song as before (beware • 1I7½bpm Hundred Dollar Dub and rumbling my money. Igot what Iwanted — beat it. - A to explode but now massive, this is the original the false finish!), flipped by a wrigglier 0- I18bpm Eerie Instrumental too), fascinating real grabber, it's safe for radio, the other clean- version rather than the more recently imported 119 /14 bpm "Master Reese" Mix and interes- moody stuff. Iactually mentioned it in passing ly worded tracks being the Watts 103rd Street remix (nervily lurching 124 /12 bpm 'The Prayer' tingly sparser dubwise tricks filled 119 /12 - just before Christmas, when it got lost, and Rhythm Band reviving 0-95bpm 'Express Your- flip). 118 /14 -118 /12 -0bpm Magic Juan Techno Trix now thankfully interest is growing. It may be self', witty 106 1/3bpm 'Quiet On Tha Set' and Mix, out fully April 3. too subtle at first for a large room, but try it! 100 1/6bpm 'If It Ain't Ruff. Otherwise parental RICHIE RICH 'Rockin' On The Go-Go Scene' VICKY MARTIN discretion is advised over the violent 0- SKYY (Gee St. Recordings GEE T121 'Not Gonna Do It (I Need A 98 /12 bpm *Gangsta Gangsta', 100 1/3-98 5/6 -- 'Start Of A Romance (Extended Tha Police' (fill in the blanks), 88bpm Samples, quotes and scratches crammed ultra Man)' Version)' •Dopeman (Remix(', (0-)103-0bpm 'Sraight jiggly jumping go-go tempoed 0-107 /12 -I 07 /14 - (MCA Records MCAT 1320) (US Atlantic 0-86444) Outta Compton', 0-95 /14 bpm 'Compton's In 107 /12 -0bpm jitterer designed to rock you Marshall Jefferson & Vicky Martin's wailing and Still produced by Randy Muller & Solomon The House (Remix(', and indeed 0-97 1/6-0bpm again & again & again & again & again & again rambling deep house import hit has for UK Roberts Jr despite their new label, New York 'Parental Discretion lz Advised'. Shocking and (hint!), likely to be the biggest thing this Lon- release (on March 28) been completely remixed Skyy's return is an abruptly jolting stuttery loathsome though most of it may be, Ihaven't don DJ's done when it's out fully on April 3, and repackaged in four brand new versions, a rumbling 0-103bpm stark basher, youthfully enjoyed an album so much for ages, and even flipped by a squidgier 107 /14 bpm alternative jerkily percussive surging (0 -) pent-up with probable -street soul - appeal taped it for my car — which is more than I edit, plus three unrelated different 99s/sbpm. 121 /12 bpm Barn Bam House Mix, 121 /12 bpm (more dub-like vocal "Instrumental" too). bothered doing with the De La Soul set! 13 4/6bpm and 116 4/s drily drummed break 7- Edit, more mellow 121 /14 bpm Marshall Jef- beat loops. ferson Radio Mix and Acappella. SHARON DEE CLARKE • The Bushy Berkley — styled stage at the 'Something Special (Magic Juan THE BEMMASTERS WITH MERLIN THERYL Royal Albert Hall for the mixing cham- Mix)' 'Who's In The House (The Hip 'Open Up Your Heart' (Urban URBX 31) House Anthem)' (US Hot Soul Records HAL 12112) pionships Penned and produced, and indeed originally cre- (Rhythm King LEFT Si) Philadelphia recorded excellent soaring and sea- dited as being performed, by Damon Rochefort Having laid down the subsequently Cookie ring throatily soulful guy sung swaying 98bpm although always wailed by Sharon, this now Crew rapped house tempo 'Rok Da House' Jogger (instrumental flip), about for a while and thunderously thumping and sizzling (0-)- back in 1986, the claim to have well worth checking — if house had never 124bpm techno canterer instantly exploded as invented "hip house - and in this Merlin rapped happened it would have been massive by now! soon as pre-release promos hit the shops, and crudely racing brash I24-0bpm churner they sounds actually stronger than Inner City's newie virtually paraphrase Tyree's 'Turn Up The Bass' KEITH, KAT & BLONDIE (I24bpm Magic Juan's Instrumental Mix and in an answering retribution (fluttery bassier less 'Gotta Get Some Money'

less emphatic 124 /14 -0bpm original album ver- brash B-side vocal 122?-/abpm After Eight Dub, (US nugreOve NG 007) sion too). A smash? which many may prefer), not due fully until Terrific subtly exciting weird atmosphere dren- April 3. ched emptily tapping bassily resonant I17 /12 - ROB BASE Ett DJ E-Z ROCK 118 1/3bpm deep house pulser, with some con- 'Joy And Pain (World To World M-D-EMM featuring NiLSIH versation between a newly arrived in New Remix)' 'Get Hip To This!' York fortune seeking girl and a cab-driving (Supreme Records SUPET 143) (RePublic Records LICT 022) hopeful singer before the guy starts mournfully Acappella introed jumpily jiggling bass and skit- Not released fully until April 25 but sure to cataloguing his hardships in song, and the two

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