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 Gonorstein
The Soul Crate
Off The Hook | 2006
Somewhere between the birth of gold chains and ProTools, there was a time when soul, funk and RnB knew its Garry Glitter years. Prince and Michael Jackson brought it to the hit parades and suddenly these black genres became pop. Music passionates like to overlook these era and pledge allegiance to the seventies and early, early eighties. And we have to admit, we never really dug that period either, only remembering coppin the first soundtrack of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, and we have to admit this too, nodding along with such acts as Joe Public, Bobby Brown, Color Me Badd (really!), Tevin Campbell and Guy.
But 'The Soul Crate' shows us different. An exciting, funky and oh-yeah-I-forgot-about-that-one journey through the land of the late 80s and early 90s, is brought to you by UK’s DJ Gonorstein, known of several mix CD’s released on the Off The Hook label. Rollin drums and groovy basslines keep an up-tempo pace throughout the album, due to the hip-hop mixes by Marley Marl (Stephanie Mills’ 'Something In The Way'), Large Pro (Young Disciples’ 'Apparantly Nothing', find the original on the FPOBA soundtrack!) and DJ Spinna (Cooly’s Hot Box’s 'Make Me Happy'), or the more 'hardcore' 12” mix versions of the featured songs.
Being from the UK, Gonorstein couldn’t leave out some of Britain’s pride and glorious of that period, being Soul II Soul (of course!), The Chimes, Caron Wheeler, Mica Paris and Delegation, to name the most celebrated, provin that the genre was definitely 'big in Britain'. Besides the afore mentioned hip-hop mixes, the cousin of the featured genres, is represented also by Slum Village’s 'Fall In Love'. Not really necessary here, but we guess Gonorstein wanted to 'big up' Detroit’s blooming rap scene and give the rap fans some.
'The Soul Crate' is a welcome alternative to the thousands of seventies break compilations, putting a really underrated but fertile period of black music (that then forever found its entrance in Albion) in the spotlight, where it rather remains in the dark most of the time.
posted by: engelbert humperfunk | 07-22-2006 |
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