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Posted in Pets on 09/21/2011 06:27 pm by admin
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Horse Meat Disco II $16.98 The Horse Meat Disco crew’s second mix for the Strut label is densely packed with supercharged disco and post-disco. Once again, the focus is on the music, not the mixing, which is fluid and discreet, allowing all but one selection to play out for at least five minutes. The first selection is something of a fake-out — organic, traditionally structured, elaborately arranged disco that features Leonore O’Malley’s not-quite-feminist vocal. From there, it gets weird, highlighted by Cyclades’ barreling “Fire to Desire” (featuring a delirious, high-pitched female vocal), Scherrie Payne’s almost unrecognizable version of 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love,” and Electra and Tara Butler’s pro-fitness “Feels Good (Carrots and Beets)” (which features one of the baddest synthesized basslines). Stephanie Mills’ James Mtume/Reggie Lucas-produced “You Can Get Over” isn’t particularly bizarre on its own, but something about its context here — along with slightly adjusted pitch — makes it seem just a wee bit off-center (in a good way). The most sonically rich of the lot, Lourett Russell Grant’s feverish “Hot to Trot,” might be the ultimate Horse Meat Disco track — a horse gallops across it, from channel to channel. Unlike the first volume, there isn’t a second disc that contains the tracks in unmixed form. Instead, there’s a code that enables the download of 320-kbps MP3s. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi |
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Horse Meat Disco $10.17 Initiated in a South London basement, its name taken from a partially covered newspaper headline that read “Horse Meat Discovered in Salami,” this club night — inspired by original disco havens like the Loft, Gallery, and Paradise Garage — has grown to the point where an officially released mix is very much appropriate. Presented by its four, er, horsemen-slash-resident DJs, the mix remains strictly within the realm of disco and post-disco from 1976 through 1984, neither sidetracked by pointless re-edits nor weighed down with self-serving DJ tricks. It doesn’t pretend to be anything more than an excellently sequenced, expertly selected set. Most of the inclusions won’t be familiar to those who have been snapping up disco comps during the earlier part of the 2000s, yet most of them are far from obscure. In fact, 11 of the songs reached Billboard’s U.S. club chart, with Gino Soccio’s slinky “It’s Alright,” Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Hi-NRG classic “In the Evening,” and K.I.D.’s oddly glorious “Hupendi Muziki Wangu?!” peaking within the Top Ten. (On the other end of the spectrum, how many freaks know about Larry Levan’s instrumental mix of Smokey Robinson’s “And I Don’t Love You,” which rates with his similarly dubbed-up sides for David Joseph and Gwen Guthrie?) There’s a near-total avoidance of “purist” disco, quite possibly a happenstance one; even Tamiko Jones’ “Let It Flow,” one of the two tracks from 1976, is a deviation from the lush early disco sound perfected by Gamble & Huff, propelled by tapping electric piano and laced with wild synthesizer wriggles. Keeping with HMD’s admiration of the ’70s N.Y. clubs, some of the inclusions are lyrically tied to the scene: Laura Greene’s “Manhattan,” boasting a tremendously tight break with string sustain, could have been penned by a tourism board of sinister natives (”You can shop at Bloomie’s, let them take your dough/Even catch the Moonies, or a Broadway show”). A typically excellent package from Strut, including a second disc featuring most of the songs unmixed, and a terrific companion to Danny Krivit’s Grass Roots (Strut, 2001), where one can get a stylistically broader look at ’70s club music from a DJ who was spinning at the time. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi |
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Horse Dog Tag Necklace $8.99 Horse Dog Tag Necklace Saddle up in style with this horse necklace dog tag. This horse dog tag features a 22 inch ball chain. Unique dog tag pendant and chain. This dog tag necklace makes a great gift idea. Specifications: 22 Inch Ball Chain, 1.15″ (w) x 2″ (h) Dog Tag, Made in the USA Dog Tag Pendant Necklaces |