Two Sisters – B-Boys B-Ware (Club Mix)
Bboys had best b-ware when this joint drops! It’s an all time classic East Coast electro jam produced by Raul A. Rodriguez (who also shared a studio with Man Parrish and Planet Rock producer Arthur Baker) with additional production by Mark Berry plus featuring a guest verse from MC G.L.O.B.E from Afrika Bambaataa’s Soul Sonic Force crew. Released in 1983, it’s a dope party track and also one of the all time classic 808 jams — boooming kicks and and some ruuude cowbell action.
Two Sisters had some other classic tracks like Destiny, Scratch This, and the Man Parrish produced High Noon. The girls put it best themselves — Hot damn, when the sisters jam, we gonna rock every boy girl women and man, we can rap rhyme mix and cut, bboys we’re gonna fuck you up!.
As well as several vinyl pressings, it was also featured on Street Sounds Electro 2. For the unaware, Street Sound Electro was THE compilation for old school electro.
Fancy rocking a little bboy stance yourself? Why not follow these easy instructions!! They are apparently scans from a breakdance record released in the early 80s, I don’t know shit about the record itself but came across these scans online. Pretty entertaining shit, if anyone knows what’s going on in the wardrobe department please be sure to advise in a comment!
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Novamen Live at Stubnitz 3/6/2005
Mr. Pauli In The Mix, the sleazy electro funk mix we posted last week has been so popular that we dug up another old set out the archives — This time Mr. Pauli & Dj Overdose playing live as the Novamen! That’s right baby, everybody’s favorite electro duo from The Hague playing some of their best tracks completely live from the MPC and synthesizers, plus Overdose rocking some serious vocoder raps on the M-I-C.
This set kicked everybody’s ass back when it first dropped, since at that time all of these tracks (except for Murdercapital Mentality) were unreleased and completely new, which naturally sent the electro freaks into a frenzy. We are glad to say that 5 years on, all the tracks in the set have been released on vinyl where they belong and are now finding their place into more banging electro funk sets.
The Novamen let us all know that they rule the fucking planet. A bold call — but you know what? At Cold Crush, we’re not going to argue! This set is straight fire baby!
Novamen Live at Stubnitz tracklisting
1. Novamen – Murdercapital Mentality
2. Los Hombres Nova – El Corredor De Las Dunas
3. Los Hombres Nova – Hijos Del E
4. Novamen – Freak Of The Week
5. Los Hombres Nova – Regresso Con Tralla
6. Novamen – THC2
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Old school West Coast electro funk legend Egyptian Lover speaks on rap and Chilly B:
It is 2010 and rap has been with us since 1979 but the pioneers are getting older. We lost Chilly B from Newcleus may he rest in peace. — Egyptian Lover
Well said, and sad but true. We just heard some more bad news, that Guru from Gang Starr is in a coma after suffering a heart attack. Very uncool, our thoughts are with you Guru.
We hope that will be the last shit news for a long while, there has been too much lately.
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Left to right: Chilly B, Nique D, Lady E & Cosmo D, circa 1983
Newcleus – Computer Age (Push The Button)
We received some sad news today; Bob Crafton, who we all know as Chilly B from Brooklyn electro funk / old school rap crew Newcleus passed away yesterday at only 47 years old. He suffered a massive stroke over the weekend which left him in a coma, and Doctors said that even if he was to miraculously recover, he would be left unable to function. Yesterday, February 24 his family made the decision to turn off the life-support and he passed on shortly after. Rest in peace.
He is survived by his wife Valerie and his sons Justin, Jason, Joshua and Isaiah, and of course his old crew Newcleus, to all of whom we wish all the best.
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I just found the video clip for Space – Magic Fly which we posted yesterday…I’d never seen it before, and though I should post it up since it’s pretty cool! I also wasn’t aware that not only was Magic Fly a worldwide number one hit back in ‘77 when it was released, but Space also sold over 10 million albums before they split up in 1983! Crazy shit!
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RETALI8 is going to be playing some funk and disco tracks in Kings Cross this weekend at Blanco Bar & Restaurant on Roslyn Street. He’ll be there both Friday and Saturday night, and the joint is open till 12 so come have a few chilled out drinks, or warm up for your night out in the Cross. For all you ladies — You can get Cava Rosé Bellinis for $10 if you mention the flyer at the bar.
And the track — Magic Fly by Marseilles disco trio Space, from their first record, also called Magic Fly which was released way back in 1977. Nice spaced out French disco which fits in nicely with the Italo disco sound too.
The venue:
Blanco Bar & Restaurant
5-9 Roslyn Street Kings Cross
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Richie Rich vs. Trouble Funk – Richie Rich In Trouble
So by now you’ve listened to Trouble Funk – Good To Go, and if you weren’t already a Trouble Funk fan, it’s safe to say you are probably hungry for more! Well here at Cold Crush we don’t hold out on the goods, so uhh…voila!
Trouble Funk are a RnB band from Washington DC, who helped to pioneer DC’s own funk sound called go go. While they weren’t the first go go band (we’ll tell you about them some other time), they are definitely one of the most well known outside of DC, with an array of hits like Pump Me Up, Drop The Bomb, Trouble Funk Express (a live funk cover of Kraftwerk’s Trans Europe Express), Hey Fellas and RETALI8’s personal favourite, Don’t Touch That Stereo.
Trouble Funk’s sound is super funky and very danceable. They made use of 2 drummers, combining funk drums with latin percussion rhythms backing a mix of horns and sax, guitar, bass, and funked synthesizer bass and sci-fi noises, with chanted vocals both sung and rapped, and they were well known for singing back and forth with the crowd — something that definitely caught on in hip hop.
With their super funky drums it’s no suprise that hip hop has sampled the shit out of Trouble Funk — right back from old school guys like Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mell and the Furious Five and T-La Rock to more new school rap, The Liks, Dr. Dre, Public Enemy, 2 Live Crew, and er…Will Smith. Their song Pump Me Up was famously sampled for Dimples D – Sucker Dj, which was a number 1 hit in Australia, and graffiti lovers take note; it also appeared on the Style Wars DVD!
Trouble Funk were also infamous for some of the bands that used to open for their shows — hardcore DC punk bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat and The Big Boys. Pretty safe to say they were the only funk band to be touring with cats like that.
Trouble Funk’s original keyboard player Robert “Syke Dyke” Reed died of cancer in 2008, but in spite of this the boys are still doing shows and rocking crowds to this day. Alas I doubt we will see them out on this end of the world anytime soon, but you can still catch them live in DC!
This track is a wild megamix by Jamaican born turntablist Dj Richie Rich, one of the original cats in the turntablism scene, who despite not staying in the forefront of the scene was considered to be one of the best in the world. He was a member of New York crew 3rd Bass, also known as 3 The Hard Way as well as the Supermen Dj Crew along with Clark Kent, Supreme, Scratch, Mix and Alladin, and he was involved in the movie Juice, which he also provided the cuts for. The mix is banging, it’s not hard to hear why Richie was considered one of the best! Enjoy
Richie Rich vs. Trouble Funk – Richie Rich In Trouble
Ps, minimal wave fans go over and check out Xeno & Oaklander – Blue Flower live at Wierd in New York, over at the new RETALI8 site. Martial Canterel of X&O mentioned recently in an interview that he loves go go music, although the influence is probably not so obvious in his own sound!
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I know all you crate diggers out there can relate to this. Out for a little breakfast on a Saturday morning afternoon, a delicious proscuitto and brie panini and a spicy pot of chai from Clipper Cafe in Glebe, and thought hey, why not take a quick look at the markets around the corner. There are usually a few guys there selling second hand vinyl, and although it’s mostly the same guys, it’s worth trawling through each week because even though you KNOW you are gonna be digging through the same shit over and over, they occasionally add new bits and pieces.
A quick peek naturally ended up being a good hour trawling through about 7 or 8 boxes of records in the hot hot sun, but you know how it goes — once you’ve taken a peek there’s no turning back…you never know what you’re going to miss if you don’t go through EVERY SINGLE BOX!
Well, all of those boxes later and I didn’t come up with much. The Australian pressing of Trouble Funk’s 1986 go go jam Good To Go, plus gothic rock band Sisters of Mercy’s 12″ single of This Corrosion, with the pair cashing in at the hefty price of $7. Was it still worth every second spent? You know it!
Vinyl forever baby!
PS, try and get hold of Droppin’ Bombs (The Definitive Trouble Funk) on CD or Vinyl for more Trouble Funk! It’s deleted of course, but was released in ‘98 and isn’t too hard to come across.
A classic mix of classic hits by our homeboy from The Hague, Mr. Pauli! Infamous for driving the crowd notoriously wild with his live sets at Fabric club in London as well as being one half of electro freaks the Novamen, funkiest white guys out Bumper and of course Den Haag groovy thugs Matzo & Pauli, this mix is an oldie but a goodie from 2006 that has probably crept under the radar for most of you until now.
With a tracklist covering styles from from classic bboy electro funk, to industrial, EBM and italo disco, Mr. Pauli manages to add his own super-sleazy touch to everything with masterful track-selection and the slickest of slick mixes. You should know by now how they roll in The Hague baby!
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Nancy Fortune – Fun With My Doctor
Today’s track is a selection from French electro Goddess, songstress/seductress Nancy Fortune – best known for her amazing EP The Secret Life Of… on Viewlexx, and her disco collaborations with I-F & Intergalactic Gary’s project The Parallax Corporation, Alden Tyrell, S-Y-D, a guest appearance on Luke Eargoggle’s album Pawns of the Field, and most recently a track with the Novamen’s Mr. Pauli where she jammed back and forth on vocals with Italo disco legend Fred Ventura plus some haunting vocals for Beta Evers on all girl minimal electro label Venus Noir.
This track is lots of fun…new style dancefloor electro funk with cuts of a lot of classic samples thrown in for good measure. It’s from her recent album Crystallised — a rare album in that every track on it is outstanding! With a mix of styles from disco to electro and experimental tracks, and featuring production from Nancy herself along with I-F, Parallax Corporation and S-Y-D, it is basically the jam. But you know what, even though you should trust our taste in music by now, don’t even listen to us — listen to old school hip hop and electro legend, motherfucking MAN PARRISH!
“Nancy Fortune’s album is one of the best modern Electro based records I’ve heard this year! Her choice of synthesizers, programming and sounds is far superior to anything currently available. In addition her knowledge of BOTH old school and modern electro styles is simply amazing. She seamlessly blends old skool electro beats and synth lines with new skool sounds and ideas in truly a unique way. This album may just set a new standard for today’s music. I love it.” — Man Parrish
Yeah, that’s right, you should go and cop Crystallised immediately – it’s only available as a digital download for the time being, let’s just hope that it makes it to vinyl HINT HINT, YES WE ARE TALKING TO YOU VIEWLEXX AND OR CLONE RECORDS!!
Ps, by pure coincedence, it’s Mademoiselle Fortune’s birthday today…Happy birthday from Cold Crush! We love you Nancy!
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