Re: Help to ID Mantronix
Shoji Sadoi (Shoji@at-beam.com)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:04:17 -0400
>From: iep95jsa@student1.lu.se (Johan Sagnert)
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>This has been buggin me for ages now and I hope you can help me figure out
>what it is. It's an old track (probably late 80s) and it starts out with
>some big sirens (like a highpitched bombraid warning) and then the beat
>kicks in. It (the beat) sounds pretty similar to the one NWA used on their
>"Straight outta Compton" track. Anything else...hmm...TouchE from the
>Wiseguys always has this tune in his box.
>
>Does this make any sense? Know which track I'm talking about? I'm sorry I
>can't give you more details cause I haven't even got it on tape!
The song you are talking about is the song called "The King of the
Beats", by Mantronix. it's one of the hard-to-find 12 inch singles, so
good luck...
-SDI-