Kool and the Gang / Summer Madness
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From: Barimore, Carl J [mailto:cbarim@essex.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:38 PM
To: 'acid-jazz@ucsd.edu'
Subject: Who knows it?
Could anyone identify a track for me? I know so little about this track that
it is unlikely that anyone will recognise the one I'm talking about, but
I'll give it a go.
I heard the track first on a cassette of a soul radio show my sister
recorded in the mid-eighties. The track itself sounds like it might be early
eighties or late seventies.
All I can do to pinpoint the track is to say that 'Gone are the Days' (of
summer madness) by the Ganja Kru (DJ Hype, Zinc, True Playaz etc. released
in 1997) was based on it. Although it didn't use the break, there are lots
of sounds on the Ganja Kru record that were lifted from the tune I'm after.
You can actually hear the Ganja Kru record at
http://hjem.get2net.dk/indajungle/list/gkru_gonedays.htm. Its very good.
Most notably the record I'm after ends with a very distinctive note that
rises very quickly in pitch. It is very unusual indeed. It featured at the
start of the Ganja Kru record. I've also heard this sound in the background
of a tune on the Badu album 'Baduizm' but I don't know if it was sampled
from the record I'm after or is just a similar noise.
The only other thing I can say is that the track is an instrumental (or the
version I heard was) and has got a very chill sound. It's basically the
groove and a synthesiser playing over the top. The synthesiser sounds a
little bit like the ones heard on 'Everybody loves the Sunshine' by Roy
Ayers (though only a little bit like it). The tune certainly has that kind
of slow groove.
Does it ring any bells? Probably not. But thanks for thinking about it.
Carl
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