Mad respects to Andrew!!!!
some quickies for you all to peep re: Mantronik
http://www.apple.com/creative/bios/mantronik/
http://www.cheebadesign.com/legends/disco.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~Huggesey/Housetimeline.htm
--- andrewduke@canada.com wrote:
quoted 100 lines On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:16:39 -0700, Kevin Ryan
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:16:39 -0700, Kevin Ryan
> wrote:
>
> > What is it? A month ago folks were complaining
> about
> > how everybody was
> > ripping off Mantronix and how Mantronix wasn't
> getting
> > due credit for
> > innovating a certain sound: Can someone be more
> > specific about what this
> > Mantronix sound was that everybody was allegedly
> > biting? In other words, what
> > (on your account) set Mantronix apart from the
> general
> > electrofunk milieu of
> > the 80s, and other popular crews, such as
> Newcleus?
>
> Other than Sir Mix A Lot continuing to make tons of
> $$$
> from "Baby Got Back" (which is Mix A Lot rapping
> over
> Channel One--an early Juan Atkins project--'s
> "Technicolor") and the plethora of bands that
> chopped
> up Kraftwerk for their percussion and rhythms, and
> Schooly D's rhythms getting ripped off even to this
> day
> 17 years later (car commercials, bad dance music,
> Puff
> Daddy, etc) Mantronix would be the one whose actual
> music (and vibe) has been most ripped off, in my
> opinion, from that era. I'm a huge Newcleus fan, a
> huge Jonzun Crew fan, Man Parrish, et al fan, but
> none
> of their tracks were nothing like Mantronix. Kurtis
> Khaleel worked the hell out of his drum machines
> like
> hadn't been done before, the edits on his record by
> Chep Nunez were phenomenal. You don't hear that in
> Newcleus, Jonzun Crew, et al. They programmed the
> drum
> machines, but they didn't chop things up at all;
> they
> were all pretty "straight" rhythmically. And Kurtis
> K.
> produced and mixed and remixed others, giving them
> his
> sound, unlike the boys behind Newcleus and the
> Jonzun
> crew and Man Parrish et al. One of Beck's biggest
> songs rips off Mantronix's "Needle To The Groove" as
> do
> songs by the Chemical Brothers and many more.
> Listen
> to Autechre, Prefuse 73, Timbaland, The Neptunes,
> and
> Akufen and you know they've been influenced heavily
> by
> Mantronix. Todd Terry was influenced by Kurtis K,
> Todd
> Edwards was influenced by Kurtis K., Lil' Louis
> Vega,
> and many more. The late Chep Nunez (who died
> tragically in a house fire in the early 90s) was
> also
> extremely influential (and he worked with tons of
> others beside Mantronix), but Nunez didn't get the
> props he deserved because he was more behind the
> scenes. The first track on my Bip-Hop album is
> called
> "Hell Yeah!" as a tribute to Mantronix and Chep
> Nunez:
> "Do you like...MANTRONIX! Hell Yeah!" Incidentally
> it
> also uses the sound of my spinning a Jonzun Crew
> record
> backwards as one of its effects. Not trying to
> start a
> war or anything here, just standing up for an artist
> who meant a lot to me and others who I see continue
> to
> be denied money he is owed. Take care. Andrew Duke
>
> out now: Environmental Politics http://and-oar.org
> Take Nothing For Granted http://acidfake.tk
> Sprung http://bip-hop.com
> http://warprecords.com/mart/music/release.php?
> cat=BLEEP12&fc_type=CD
> *Canadian electronica album of the year nominee*
> More Destructive Than Organized
> http://staalplaat.com
> Highest Common Denominator http://pieheadrecords.com
> Physical and Mental Health http://dialrecords.com
> 74'02 (split with Hypo) http://tsunami-addiction.com
> Waveforms: Halifax Electronic Music Compilation
> http://techno.ca/cognition
>
>
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