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and Gomma claimed they "tried to get permission" on the sleeve of Anti-NY, no? That doesn't make bootlegging okay, folks!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

oh i never caught that part, which makes the cheekiness of the full length repressing extra cheeky! (and commisioning remixes too!) (and licensing those remixes to other comps!) oh lordy, this goes deep....maybe Dale can shed some light / knowledge....

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

hi LP.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Hello GALKIN,
Lynn Tolliver has the rights to the material. He created the group.
If there are any copyright issues to deal with it's up to Lynn to resolve them. Kinda sucks thought although we worked in the studio to create the EP most of us didn't have writing credits.

― Dale Jackson, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

i actually gave gomma tolliver's website info, but i don't know if they did anything.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Sexual Harassment is pretty good. I'm going to be playing their music on my answering machine. Call me and tell me what you think.

-(713)553-1256

― Wet and sexified, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

hi lauren! (ya hogmanay traitor). hi jg!

naughty gomma.

i just played in modena (somewhere in italy) tonight and 'i need a freak' was the only record that got a reaction. can i just take this opportunity to say ITALY SUCKS! nice food though.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 22 December 2005 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't Lynn Tolliver was actually involved in "My Humps." I think BEP just sampled the "I Need A Freak" synth line, and Lynn collects royalties.

Sexual Harrassment is a great band, and I love hearing those songs played out on a big system.i just had a house party, and i sent out a homemade "if i gave you a party" remix with the invitations. everybody liked it, and everyone came.

― theghostrobot (theghostrobot), Thursday, 22 December 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I gotta love this thread. Never heard of these dudes and now there's an instant resource!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 December 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

hi, twitch! (i know, it's terrible.)

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

What a heartwarming thread!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"if i gave you a party" is amazing, but i must admit that i think it's the only SH song i (think i) know

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

"I Need a Freak" is brilliant. I didn't even know there was a full-length, I though SH had just put out the two singles...

― telephone thing, Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

IIGYAP sorta Suicide meets a Del La Soul

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I actually just got Gomma to send me a few more of those repressed promo EP's...they must still have some. My brother gave me an original EP for xmas last year, with cover art, great gift! KISSING is a really great 12" too. The remixes they got were kind of crappy and not really needed. There is a Syrup remix of If I Gave You A Party on the Anti NY comp on Gomma and a John Selway remix of I Need A Freak as well (on a Kenny Glasgow mix CD, not sure where else it is available...) I always thought trax like I Need A Freak were as famous as Egyptian Lover-type tunes, but I guess I am wrong!

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the selway remix came out as a boot 12" at some point.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm FIENDING for this shit. OK, I've got original vinyl of I Need A Freak and the AntiNY comp w/ Gave You a Party. But I just presently learned of the other tracks and I need to hear 'em real real bad. Somebody please YSI. Leave it on my voicemail. Courier me an 8-Track. Something.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha! I first heard this track a year or so ago being played by Magda, and it fitted perfectly into her set of modern minimal house. I didn't realise it was quite so old until today! Great tune guys.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I've heard "I Need A Freak" played by Weatherall, Dan Bell, Falco Brocksieper, Jay Haze and a bunch of minimal techno DJs. It seems to be experiencing a resurgence lately. It's a classic along with "If I Gave You A Party," but I didn't know there was an album too.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

It's definitely a classic by now, anyone who's been listening to electrohouse pretty much is guaranteed to know this tune.

This version is quite good too, it was on Ivan Smagghe's How to Kill The DJ mix.

http://www.discogs.com/release/301816

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

WOWZERS! i just found the mp3s of the I Need a Freak EP and it's easily one of the best things i've heard in years.

are there even mp3s circulating of the infamous We Want Prince?

― STRAIGHT FERN GULLY (jaxon), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

was playing 'I need a freak' at work, and the receptionist came up to me and was all, "hahaha black eyed peas!" :(

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

i met a hot girl from san francisco. she told me to check this band out.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

"hahaha black eyed peas!"

hahaha! double-pwned.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn, this is where I miss the YSI threads... Any idea where I can hear some of this off-site? (The IIGYAP is the only thing I know from them...)

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

hey jaxon, you should uh, email me.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

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My mommy sang in this!

― admrl, Friday, 26 June 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link

six months pass...

What I love is how simple the album is but how much song writing skill went into it. I mean the various vocal pitch levels so that one voice stands out without being louder, the modulation in "Exercise Your Ass Off", and just having solid song parts from simple repeated phrases. It's inspirational. Solid live drums that aren't busy - sh*t I could go on.

― Grifo, Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I remember when Sexual Harrassmentput out the "I Need A Freak" LP. I remember Lynn Tolliver being a radio DJ on WZAK 93.1 in Cleveland and adding in the "Oh You Know...I Need a Freak" man and it was the jam. We played it night and day. But if there is anyone out there that knows how to get a copy of Jeffrey Charles' "Tonight At Nine" let me know. He was a radio personality too and may have had some help with Sexual Harrassment, not sure on that, but he used to date my sister Connie and I would like to get a copy of that jam "Tonight at Nine". email me at dawgl✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧

― Dawglb12, Sunday, 5 September 2010 09:49 (thirteen years ago) link

six months pass...

"My ‘Sexual Harrassment’ was the first good use of the name, and I didn’t have to market the name, or make the name a household word – it was already a household word!"

― lacan't (haitch), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Julia Wertz has some thoughts: http://www.juliawertz.com/2015/10/05/on-sexual-harassment-and-public-discussion/

I was bummed when I saw the initial exchange on her twitter feed and didn't know what to say besides maybe apologizing on behalf of my gender but ugh

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link

this is not the thread you are looking for

― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link

hahaha um

right

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link

where would be better, the sexism thread?

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link

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