The Latin Rascals Mastermix Those Number One Tunes
This music, while incredibly modern, direct from that state of mind called the future, sounds like MOR electro and saccharine pop have been beamed to the Rascals on their urban moonbase in the 23rd century who’ve then beamed it back to eighties New York. They’ve twisted those knobs labelled Spangle, Contrast, and Drama clockwise and the (possibly indistinguished, but fruitily tacky) pop is stretched across digital canyons and peaks, sometimes the pop is completely lost in an abstract desert of huge drums.”
On these mixes Rockwell, Hall and Oates, “The Monster Mash,” Shannon, “Owner Of A Lonely Heart,” Run-DMC, and so many other classic and/or cheesy gems get turned into robot rock, find themselves caught in the eye of a drum machine hurricane, or are looped like a dozen simultaneous nervous tics until you feel downright dizzy, songs everyone knows sometimes violently smashed up against alien electro beats. I also feel like I should note that, despite the retro appeal of the booming 808s and keyboard stabs and out-of-control vocoders and cartoon samples, the music is still funky as hell in a stuttery, pop-and-lock kind of way. And if you want more campy clips of young dudes with pencil-thin mustaches and girls gone wild with the crimper who can barely hang onto their own tunes–the spotty, awkward, adolescent human face of the Rascals’ post-human cyborg rhythms–then there’s always the YouTube collection of user “freestylemusicvideos”, whose haul will certainly make Maura happy.
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