Re: Herbie Hancock's 'Blow Up'

Gerald Molumby (v-geralm@microsoft.com)
Mon, 16 Oct 95 16:50:01 PDT


Fkn. great soundtrack. I think the one that's used by Dee Lite is
called "Bring down the birds". JTQ covered Blow Upon as a 7". It's on
their Mission Impossible EP. Much more "stompier" version than
Herbie's, nice interpretation though, it screams!

Gerry
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From: Pirkka Hannunpoika Hartikainen <phartika@niksula.hut.fi>
To: Thomas Leo Wexler <tlw101@mailer.york.ac.uk>
Cc: <acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Herbie Hancock's 'Blow Up'
Date: Sunday, October 15, 1995 7:05PM

On Sun, 15 Oct 1995, Thomas Leo Wexler wrote:

> I have looked up loads of record stores, and even internet record
catalogues (sp?) but I just cant
> find it. All I know is that it is called 'Blow Up', and it was
attributed to the aforementioned Mr
> Hancock (not of the half hour fame, of course). I also know that it
has a bassline that was
> sampled on dee-lites 'groove is in the heart', if that helps anyone
remember it. Suffice to say
> that the original was considerably better.

What you're talking about is Herbie's 'Blow Up!' soundtrack.. (Remember
the film classic?)

I've heard that the original release of this album is really really
high-priced, but it has been re-issued at some point. The copy I
listened to yesterday while visiting a friend was released in some kind
of CBS Classic Soundtracks series, and included a way cool film poster.

I hope you find it (rocking choons there!)..

Cheers,
pirkka