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Gritty Cassette FunkOk so when I was a kid I had this dub of Digital Underground's "Sex Packets." I played that shit a lot. If you don't know bout this album - well, naw, I KNOW everyone over 20 has heard "Humpty Dance" at least a couple times. But the album is a bonafide classic - it's incredibly out-there goofy creative sexed up madness, and also slamm-in' (that's some 90s slang for you youngins) West Coast funk. Shock G had skills on the mic and the beats, and especially the piano. But what I didn't know when listening was that several tracks on the cassette were only available on tape. Not on CD. Not even on vinyl. That's some classic West Coast, in-the-trunk era exclusiveness for you. So when shit went digital, and I became a vinyl-addict, I lost my sacred dub and suddenly was without a couple key tracks from my childhood. One of these was the cut above, "A Tribute to the Early Days." Not the most amazing cut, it was just some old school rhymes over a serious funk break. Serious funk. That shit stuck in my head for years, even after I had lost the tape. And then one day, I found the 45 with the break: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMUJeI2UilE&feature=related They just looped it up. Both the old and new - raw, gritty, obscure tracks. Not really much more to the story, except to say I just love it when good music leads you to more good music. And special shout out to whoever uploaded that shit off an old tape deck. Word up. |
Sex Packets
Not only that, the CD has a totally different track order. On the tape the sides are labeled "Safe Side" and "Sex Side" and that pretty well describes it. More care was put into the track ordering for the cassette.
Death Row Records sometimes put bonus tracks on cassette only. There are a couple good 2pac tracks that are only on the cassette version of the Above The Rim soundtrack.
Yep, it's some west coast shit.
BTW, the CAPTCHA thing makes some hard-to-read characters: it just wanted me to type the shape of the staff Indiana Jones holds up to the sunlight to find out where the Arc is buried. I don't have a keyboard with that character.