MC TUNES - THE RESULTS

Can you imagine an Art of noise tracks poll?

Just digging out some of the blurbs.

I'm sorry, I have nothing, I justed wanted to look like a big man on one of the Hip Hop polls, prove I'm not a one trick pony, y'know? Just make something up about tørrfisk and I'll get back to you.

Hope he's gonna stick around to enjoy some melodic Candyflip beats.

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14. SECOND CLASS RETURN TO DOTTINGHAM PLEASE (1983) [675 points, 50 votes, 8 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhnKjR0ESPs&feature=related

Think some of you were wrong about this, he looks almost unrecognisable without the beard, but who am I to argue with the poll system?

^ would have been my number one, but I didn't vote in case somebody said that it was unnecessary

Tunes Helps You Breathe More Easily Remix.

Essentially, for me, music is a metaphor, a tool for reflection. We need to think of music as information, not simply as rhythms, but as codes for aesthetic translation between blurred categories that have slowly become more and more obsolete. For me, the Dj metaphor is about thinking around the concept of collage and its place in the everyday world of information, computational modelling, and conceptual art. All of them offer exits from the tired realms of Euro-centric philosophy into some kind of pan humanism. That’s why I like Deleuze and Guattari’s work. Other figures from the European aesthetic realm like Ludwig Feuerbach (who promoted the idea of “humanism” in his works of the mid 19th century), Spinoza, and Giordano Bruno’s exploration of Semiotics are also influences, but the basic sense of “rhizomatic” thought - thinking in meshworks, in nets that extend to other nets - it’s the driving force of my music and art. It's about making multiple rhythms work together, synchronized, cut, pasted, and collaged. That’s the real “abstract machine” - cross reference that with James Brown, think Garrett A. Morgan (the African American inventor of the street light - the choreography on every street corner of the global megalopolis), think Duke Ellington with his “Afro-Eurasian Eclipse” jazz modernity, think Albert Murray’s essay “Spyglass Tree”, think Detroit’s underground forerunners, stuff like Drexciya, but most of all MC Tunes' "Second Class Return To Dottingham Please"

Dottingham IN DA HOUSE

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13. THIS AIN'T NO FANTASY (1990) [712 points, 47 votes, 3 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYanc6FJZRI

(Video not available on Youtube, unfortunately)

great to see the chill beats represented

Only twelve to go. Trying to work out what's missing. If I've called the bankers right, by my reckoning either 'The Only Rhyme That Bites' or 'Tunes Splits The Atom' isn't going to make it.

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hang on in there, i'm working on some more jokes

nothing from his 1999 album "Manconia" so far, v disappointing

Think "Bombs Over Bolton" is in with a shout tbh

RIP

ANCOATlians

Our Kid n'Play

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This 'Noodle Vague' fellow sure knows how to work a crowd. Must have been taking lessons from the one, the only ...

Results so far

20. DUB AT ITS HEIGHTS (1990) [532 points, 20 votes, 1 number one]
19. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (CREAMATOMIC RAP) (1990) [564 points, 31 votes]
18. CONNECTED (1992) [588 points, 21 votes, 3 first places]
17. THE ONLY RHYME THAT BITES '99 (1999) [603 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]
16. PRIMARY RHYMING (1990) [604 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]
15. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (ZERO GRAVITY MIX) (1990) [636 points, 39 votes, 2 first places]
14. SECOND CLASS RETURN TO DOTTINGHAM PLEASE (1983) [675 points, 50 votes, 8 first places]
13. THIS AIN'T NO FANTASY (1990) [712 points, 47 votes, 3 first places]

I think he's letting the Beatles have a crack at the big time first, what with that poll kicking off.

xp oops maybe I was wrong

here we go

What is 'beatles'?

i'm reliably told they can fuck right off

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Ah, Jump Grave Slacks, my favourite!

12. DANCE YOURSELF TO DEATH (MARLEY MIX) (1990) [721 points, 39 votes, 1 first place]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tSlgJoWPw

It's the actual fucking record! What are the odds eh???

So did Jump Grave Slacks not make it?

dammit i got so excited i missed off the bold tags

12. DANCE YOURSELF TO DEATH (MARLEY MIX) (1990) [721 points, 39 votes, 1 first place]

That bloke looks nothing like Bob Marley

He didn't have a dog for starters.

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That was possibly the least racist GIS for 'bob marley dog'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKnL54cBjbA

Just a bit of fun, let's be cool

Still time for Jump Grave Slacks (DJ Top Buzz Mix) to make the top five.

I think you'll find that single was credited to the Soup Dragons and the rumours that Tunes was behind it were apocryphal

History is written by the winners.

GH: It was very pleasing to see Tunes release this heartfelt warning on the dangers of engaging in dancing to rhythm-dominated musics rather than contemplatively smoking a Petterøe's and gazing off into the Northern Lights to the sound of SUB: INSERT NAME OF CLASSICAL MUSICS MAN IN HERE.Why he chose to remix it with a bunch of samples from The Muppet's Christmas Carol I am at a loss to explain for.

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Psych Spice Ant Legs?

Featuring Junior Reid on "toasting".

11. THEM GIRLS THEM GIRLS (1994) [791 points, 56 votes, 6 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQ8-U4UmOE

this is some britishes thing I can safely ignore, yes?

"These are dem word from my grandaddy! BO! These are dem word from my grandaddy! BO! Don't feel 'shamed to feel pscyh spice ant legs!"

You ingore Tunes at your peril! As a friend of mine found out to his own cost in the Ducie in Levenshulme one night in '94.

Tunes' collaboration with Ian Brown of Barron Knights tribute act The Stoned Roses caused controversy in some quarters when TV Quick's Richard Arnold pronounced it "not strictly for the headstrong". But it proved a huge hit with fans, as it poll placing proves.