Saturday, December 30, 2023

"London Massive!" (the declensions of "Madness On The Street")



Ooh gosh this sounded so so phuturistic when I first heard it  -- all the dainty little keyboard quivers and squiggly blurts, the flickered vocal delays and twitchy hyper-syncopations.





"Respects to All Passion FM Crew" - respects plural! Each and every one gets their own personal nuff respect...  


Then -  now calling themselves the Stamp Crew, rather than Richie Boy & DJ Klasse feat. Fai -  came this revamp with the wonderful recurring shout-out to the "Lon-don Mas-sive"  



That I remember and bought at the time.

But I don't remember this version with the bubblin-criss MC doing his best Creed impersonation


 

Ah the "London massive" bit is actually on the original 4/4 bounce version  - flipside to the 2step "Madness"  - but it's not made as much of as it is on the subsequent declension


That wriggly oil-slick legato B-line is very DJ Narrows / Niche / Northern Bassline


4 comments:

Matt M said...

The missus has just handed me Ed Gillett's Party Lines as a late Xmas present. Any thoughts?

SIMON REYNOLDS said...

Not read it.

dsolyszko said...

Talking about old favorites, any chance we´ll see the old classic fave´s list (from last year in this case)?

Matt M said...

SR> It names checks you & Matthew Collins as inspirations early on.