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There are exceptions though...

Search: La Cienda Honduras's cover of Chic's "Everybody Dance" from 2001

I just don't rate Senghore, never have. So much hype and always disappointing, for me.

I probably like Remedy best of all the records, but I am so sick of Urban Outfitters staff asking me to play Basement Jaxx that I think I will one day hate them with a fever. The sentence "This is depressing, put on Basement Jaxx" actually makes my blood boil, particularly when "depressing" seems to equal anything which pauses for breath.

"Jus One Kiss" and the more purified anonymous stuff I can still handle but the mental Jaxx type stuff just annoys me now, which is kind of sad.

I sometimes think working in a record store really makes you come face to face with your own taste in a very real way, and you kind of drop alot of stuff that fitted into a nice eclectic music view you had before in favour of ploughing down certain avenues, not necessarily all one genre either.

I dunno, I just don't like Basement Jaxx anymore really.

Was Senghore ever hyped? really?

I get blank stares from techno/house DJs everywhere in the states when I mention Senghore. The only people I have met who are fanatics as I luckily run a dance record store in Seattle.

I love Senghore.. then again, I like the weird synth noises and what not. Same with some Hakan Lidbo. To each his/her own I guess.

btw, the dialogue upthread is one reason I try to keep myself from posting about a hyped album I've only heard once or twice. I still think Kish Kash is a saggy whole, but individual tracks are masterstrokes once you find the core track underneath all the bells and whistles.

It's one thing I swore I would never do. And I never have.

And Dan, haven't you heard that Jaxx b-side? I can't believe they attacked you like that!

Implying "they're not 'with it'" then claiming he was a hype in summer 2003 (when most of his stuff was actually from 2000 and 2001) requires evidence from the contrary.

I know, the dirty bastards!

*looks around furtively* Fuck that nigger/Fuck that nigger/Dan Perry is a dick/Kick his ass/Kick his ass/Bitch-ass punk makes me sick

About Senghore, I was just kind of joking saying he's not with it, stuff like "Whaddup" on Underwater and a few high profile remixes like the Audio Bullys one got alot of hype in the British press in 2003.

As regards maybe it's not real dance music, you'd annoy me more if you stuck to doing yokel style racial stereotype impressions of people from far away countries you've never been to : )

Ronan, is that because the Daft Punk saturation has not been as copious? perhaps because of the division regarding Human After All? (which in turn has really convinced me definitively that BJ are superior overall).

I mean pre Human Afterall, I just kind of think of that as "ok". I dunno, Daft Punk style music was my favourite stuff for about 2 years!

The context for the hype, Donut, was that he sorta fitted into that "hooligan house" sub-genre which promised to emerge in the brief interval between disco-house and electro-house - think Armand Van Helden's "Little Black Spiders", "Where's Your Head At", Par-T-One's "I'm So Crazy", Green Velvet's "La La Land", Audio Bullys "We Don't Care" etc.

However, those first two EPs by Chicken Lips are stone cold classics... "Shoe Beast" (which I used to have on Mp3 but lost, and sadly don't own on wax) from 1998(?) and the "Git Back" EP from 1999... fucking genius. Best dance tracks since the initial Daft Punk, Impulsion, and Micronauts.

My fave Chicken Lips tracks are on the mix they did for DJ Magazine 4 years ago.

But they're done now, and now I have to get ready to go to work... so in a few hours, there will be five links up.. I'll also revive the senghore thread from years ago with the links as well. (and maybe Mark Sinkah's parody thread)

JoB, bless his heart, started two Tony Senghore threads. Ronan bitched on the former, and was called out then. So I'm not sure why he's asking to be called again on this thread, well after the fact, especially with TEH POWAH OF WHY-ESS-EYE!

But anyway, now that "you need to hear the music when you hear it talked about" is the new meme, I'm following through with that, and mainly triggered by Ronan's insistence on bitching about Tony..(to which he can continue to bitch if he doesn't like what he hears below. Never mind my shitty musical tastes!)

La Cienda Honduras & Håkan Lidbo "Everybody Dance (Håkan's Original Mix)" [2001]:
La Cienda Honduras = Tony Senghore + Martin Venetjoki. So, this is a collaboration with a collaboration featuring another Swedish dance producer, Hâkan Lidbo. And yeah, it's a "cover" of the Chic song of the same name.. moreso than Sascha Funke's "cover" of Bros' "When Will I Be Famous?", mind you. Actually, this cover sounds like a fucked up dance mix of a SWEDISH POP GROUP's cover of the Chic original, if that makes sense.

Tony
Senghore "This Is It" [2000]:
One of the earliest singles from the original Horehaus label.. "This Is It/Feisty". This showcases the more lucid, noisy side of Senghore.

Tony
Senghore Feat. 7K "Herbalize Me" [2002?]:
First off, WARNING! Don't d/l if you can't deal with insane, indiscernable screaming guest ragga-men! There, now for all you sane people still reading, this is a good example of Senghore staying great even relatively recently, though 7K definitely helps :) ..(although I can't tell if this is a reissue of an older single or not, but I doubt it.)

Wackdaddies
"Would You" [2001]:
Wackdaddies = Tony Senghore + Peter Woolford. This is from their first full release Fear Of A Wack Planet from 2001. I'm not sure "Would You" is really the title, as discogs.com lists this track as some other title off the vinyl (from whence this came), and the CD has both "Would You" and this other track title listed. My vinyl copy lists "Would You" here, so either the Under The Counter label fucked up on the sleeves, or the discogs.com member fucked up transcribing the track listing. In any case, this is a slight poppy departure on an otherwise great outlet for Senghore as far as pumpin' clicky sampling basics. The best peer album to this is The Soft Pink Truth's Do You Party?. I'm not sure Drew knows who Tony Senghore or Wackdaddies are or not. But I see a lot of similarities here, and I mean that in a good way, as both albums are extremely fun and party-worthy (excluding -- or including -- the very possibility that "Party" in Do You Party? is a reference to a far less innocent colloquialism.)

Tony
Senghore "Whaddup" [2003]:
This is the track that apparently most everyone in the UK & Ireland first heard when they first heard of the name Tony Senghore. The lyrics are ridiculous indeed (although they're not surprising, given the lyrics on Wackdaddies' "Pay Up" from 2001 from the Pay Up EP, though the lyrics there were far funnier.) The lyrics effects are still great. Otherwise, this is quite a musical departure, in that it retains nothing that is uniquely "Senghore" form the preceding years. "Whaddup", after another listen, is still quite redeemable IMHO. At least, it's better than, say, Black Strobe's "Nazi Trance Fuck Off" (IMHO, once again.) But this definitely does have that Electric Six sensibility of "I AM THE GIORGIO MORODER!/WITH A HUGE FUCKING DICK (YEAH, I SHOWED HER!)" This song could easily fit on a mix CD with the likes of Thugfucker, Heavy Rock, and Electric Six's "Danger! High Voltage!", "Synthesizer", and perhaps stuff from the latest album. But despite the good qualities of this song, it's true that I used to buy ANYTHING with Senghore's name on it without previewing until I bought "Whaddup". Then I stopped. Then apparently Senghore stopped. *shrug*

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I'll be posting more maybe on this thread and the former thread.. including Senghore stuff from 1999.

FUCK!

I had mp3s done.. No WONDER they took so long to upload :(

FUCKITY FUCK FUCK.

I'll have to try again tonight.

La Cienda Honduras & Håkan Lidbo "Everybody Dance (Håkan's Original Mix)" [2001] … MP3

Tony Senghore "This Is It" [2000] … MP3

Tony Senghore Feat. 7K "Herbalize Me" [2002?] … MP3

Wackdaddies "Would You" [2001] … MP3

Tony Senghore "Whaddup" [2003] … MP3