However, it’s not safe to assume everybody will know how to ‘Criss-Cross’ and we’ve yet to see a convincing ‘Cha-Cha’.Įven your Dad will get this one. You’d think this would be easy, but we’ve lost count of the number of backward ‘C’s we’ve witnessed.Ī real old favourite, your Mum and Auntie will love reliving their youth whilst jiving along to Chubby Checker.Īnother where the dance-moves form the lyrics of the songs. Be careful, though, when performing a pelvic thrust unattended! Yes, it gets blacker, with a Nat Turner lick.You can’t fail to get this one right – the moves are called out during the chorus. “Out of the darkness in panther skins comes doctors. Trees to branches, roots to seeds, forwards, backwards many Where you goin’, what’s your speed, what’s your pleasure, what’s your You ask what I mean, but yet the sundial shades on lights and dreams, It’s just so much more than red, black, and green, Not a bunch of sissies, but saviors braver, The pull of the trigger goes zoom not boom, I exist on a plane, where the jar is my brain, I’m livin’ to retrieveĪntenae my stick, picture bigger, made of liquor, figure, Grits and cornbread how can you act this? One nation under a groove can I get it on my good foot, get gone now!” “Ready or not here we come, get in down on the one which we believe in. Walk in the light of the moon, but I’ve never been a Batman,īrother extracts your African steps in your movements, enhance for I wear boots and beads, bags and braids, stick and scrolls, rings and I guess I’m darker than the shadow of the darkest alley, that they always Who write a couple of lines on what black is, really? They couldn’t comprehend when I brought the word,Ī stick called verb, a black steel nerve, Mourners label me as illogical, mythological, Space to exist, vibe in the midst of the chaos, Protected by the red, the black, and the green, with a key, “Freedom or death, we shall all be moved. I was always a fan of Brother J but the production (Stereo MC’s) gave it a lot of burn as samples P-Funk All Stars and Funkadelic with a key, sissssssieeeees!” The only thing I vaguely remembered from X-Clan was that they were pretty hard on the pro-black activism, which made it funnier for a white Montreal kid to be listening to that I guess.įrom Simahlak himself: “I copped this ‘Vanglorious’ piece of wax while doing the Audio Research Tour in the UK with A-Trak back in the day. I remember having an X-Clan CD when I was a kid but I definitely didn’t have that record which turns out is 1990’s “To the East, Blackwards“. The first thing every one recognized was the Funkadelic “ One Nation Under a Groove” sample, one that has been lifted so many times (46 according to Whosampled) that it might as well be called a riddim! So, after the first couple of seconds of boogieing to the beat we all recognized everyone started racking their brains to try and recognise whose track this is!? I started debating with a friend… Digital Underground? Hmmm… Maybe but my pick was X-Clan and was damn surprised and kind of proud (yes, I’m a nerd) that I was right. So in no other particular order, other than it’s still in my head, here is one by one track we discovered in Simahlak‘s set, one of our favorite Montreal DJ’s. We’re going to post the DJ sets very soon but while we wait for that we’ll do a couple of “ Forgotten Treasures” picks of memorable tracks. So many discoveries that it’s hard to remember everything but let’s just say the whole 24hrs had tons of music lovers asking DJ for track ID’s or people reaching their phones in a hurry to Shazam some tracks. Just coming off the intense (musical) high of our last edition of the 24 Hours of Vinyl event.
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