― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 19 May 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
My fave Chicken Lips tracks are on the mix they did for DJ Magazine 4 years ago.
― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
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)
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
TonySenghore "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.
TonySenghore 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.)
TonySenghore "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.
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link
FUCK!
I had mp3s done.. No WONDER they took so long to upload :(
FUCKITY FUCK FUCK.
I'll have to try again tonight.
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
This absolutely wonderful.
― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 29 September 2005 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Can't decide which one I like more! I'll just have to listen to them one after another on repeat!!!
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Dan, this song is not mentioned upthread!
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 October 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― blueski, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― haitch, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― blueski, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Kish Kash:
OMG IT IS *STILL* SO FUCKING GOOD!
― Matt DC, Sunday, 29 July 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Damn you! I thought maybe there was a new Basement Jaxx
― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
i know, right
― s1ocki, Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
well there was the 'nifty' ep.
― haitch, Sunday, 29 July 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, I never even heard of that.
― I know, right?, Monday, 30 July 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
producing a song on the new cyndi lauper album???
― t_g, Monday, 21 April 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
That actually makes a strange kind of sense.
― chap, Monday, 21 April 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, but the All Seeing I produced a track on Britney's first album.
Then were never seen again! all that dosh, prob.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 April 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
also working with kele from bloc party if the track they played out in manchester recently is to go on.
― pisces, Monday, 21 April 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
No, they mailed over the backing track for a song that had already been on their own album.
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 02:55 (sixteen years ago) link