Tuesday, April 22, 2008

BUT UH... SHOULDN'T THERE BE SOME KIND OF STRUCTURE?


Totally Funked Up: TRP Dirty Disco Classics, V. 3 of 10

A cornerstone of early 80s NYC punkfunk, Material laid down some murderous disco before turning to production a few years later; they produced a ton of influential traks, including Herbie Hancock's "Rockit"! Check out THIS awesome article by Robert Palmer from the 1981 NY Times for a cool look at Material in their early days.

Ciguri is a completely bouncing affair, cowbells popping off, rumbling tapeloops, gof4ish abstracty guitar smashes, and finally some weird brassy keyboard demonsounds on the break. And the bassline was definitely sampled by Mylo for that Motherfuckers Under the Pressure song a couple years back. The first one I heard, its prolly still my favorite Material track.

Material - Ciguri
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