Go ahead and try to "Beat Dis." You can't
Thursdays before a Friday off work are special.I marked the occasion of today's such Thursday by listening to some classic DANCE MUSIC when I arrived home from work, highlighted by the towering 1987 single "BEAT DIS" by BOMB THE BASS.
Brixton-born TIM SIMENON was his name, and blazing a trail for British dance DJs was his game.
I loved "Beat Dis" when I first heard the song in college.
Sampling was relatively new at the time, and Simenon added sounds like a magpie.
What do Kurtis Blow, Fiorello LaGuardia, Jayne Mansfield, Prince and the "Thunderbirds" puppet television series have in common? Samples of their sounds were included in "Beat Dis."
I'm going to settle down to watch MY BELOVED OREGON DUCKS on television tonight, but my long weekend kicked off with dance music of the classic kind.
posted by erik hogstrom at 7:44 PM
1 Comments:
I definitely enjoy dance music in any of its forms but I have to accept that Tom Simenon was an icon, he really knew what he was doing. Last year I travelled to Argentina and I thought they did not listen to this kind of music. I had a buenos aires apartment in the neighbourhood of Puerto Madero and it turns out that the upper classes listen to this. There was a night club called "Asia de Cuba" which used to put dance music on all night long, loved it!
Mel
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