Strafe - Set It Off
2006-11-06 by Kevvy K
A classic slice of low-slung electro-funk from 1984, which is also noted for being the last production work from Walter “do, do, do the funky” Gibbons before his untimely death. This was the perfect cross over record that cut across the two different NY scenes at the time, the older, gayer crowd dancing to Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage, aswell as Jellybean playing out to the Bridge & Tunnel kids at the Fun House.
For what’s basically the sort of song that’s an impassioned exhortation to get the party started and why is everybody sitting down when they could be dancing, it has a slightly sinister edge, something about the beats that are actually a bit dark and scary, coated in a layer of slick, subterranean funk.
I’ve been having probs finding somewhere where you can still buy this, but it seems like Juno still has a few in stock.
BTW, please think twice before going to see brit flick du jour, Scenes of a Sexual nature, which I had the misfortune to endure on Friday night. Surely the steamingest pile of smug, self-indulgent… I’m not even going to flatter it by calling it shite…. nonsense I have seen in a long time, and £8.50 that I will bitterly regret spending till the day I die. You have been warned. (and an incredibly offensive, patriarchal opening scene in which it is shown that sexy young women actually, secretly get off on being perved over by middle aged men).
EDIT: Was just called to task for adding an image that wasn’t relevant to the post, so I thought I would just add, the Pope, what an evil old scumbag. Nicaragua, following on from a concerted campaign by the evil empire that is the Catholic Church, recently illegalised any form of abortion, including when a woman’s life is imperilled by the pregnancy.
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And oh my gosh- this whole track was ripped to make the original tori alamaze version of "don't cha"- there's me thinking it was all cutting edge new electro and it's all taken wholesale from 1984!
S'true… I was actually turned on to this track by when I posted the Todd Terje edit of the aforementioned Tori Alamaze tune in the first month or so of Dilated Choonz.. it was one of the first comments we ever received.. someone writing in to say if you like this, then checck out Strafe.
great track!