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| 1. THE ELECTRIC BANANA - STREET GIRL (INSTRUMENTAL) |
| 2. LUDOVIC DECOSNE & PIERRE DAUBRESSE - GLOAMING |
| 3. THE LEMONDIPS - WHO'S GONNA BUY (INSTRUMENTAL) |
| 4. NICK INGMAN - DOWN HOME |
| 5. BARRY STOLLER - FUNKY SPIDER |
| 6. ALAN PARKER - CRATER |
| 7. PETER RENO - SILVER THRUST |
| 8. SIMON HASELEY - PRECINCT |
| 9. KEITH PAPWORTH - HAIR RAISER |
| 10. REG TILSLEY - WARLOCK |
| 11. JOHNNY HAWKSWORTH - SANDY BEACH |
| 12. JACK TROMBEY - UNDERLAY NO3 |
| 13. SIMON PARK - MOTIVES 1 |
| 14. PIERRE ARVAY - SKYWAY |
| 15. PETER RENO - RENEGADE |
| 16. SIMON PARK - OOZE |
| 17. JOHN SAUNDERS - MYRIAD |
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Review
Two reasons, broadly speaking. Firstly, this stuff is through the roof obscurity-wise, as only people working in the biz would have normally encountered it on wax. Secondly, a lot of it’s actually damn fine, especially if funky breakbeats light your fire. Take Bite Harder, for example. It all comes from the archives of De Wolfe, a London-based music library which is a century old, although compilers Warren De Wolfe and Joel Martin have honed in on the late 1960s and early 1970s here. The sequel to 1998 compilation Bite Hard, whose selections were sampled on Jay-Z and Ja Rule tracks, this CD features 19 tasty numbers, some of which have already been strip-mined for Rihanna, M.O.P. and Cam’ron beats.
So what does Bite Harder offer the non-cratedigger, then? A fair bit, actually. Granted, the cheese levels may sometimes be in the red, but so was plenty of authentic funk and psychedelia from the era and, hey, considering these guys were just clocking in and doing their day job, there’s a commendable level of crazy sonics sneaked into these brews. Some performers are actually musicians of note under pseudonyms: Peter Reno’s Street Girl is snappily funked hard rock that is in fact performed by psychedelic garage rockers The Pretty Things, while other De Wolfe session men included Stéphane Grappelli and Jimmy Page.
Sometimes it might remind you of the theme to Grandstand (Precinct by Simon Haseley), sometimes Sesame Street incidental music. And then you may well bug out to these wah-wah explosions, percussive feasts and glutinous prog/funk oddness, and wonder how the composers could be content to give them up to the suits. --Noel Gardner
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I was rewarded for my efforts with an albums worth of the most mind-bending, eclectic and honestly funky music I have ever heard. To go through this record giving a track-by-track breakdown of events it would be impossible to convey this records complexity and perversity. I would cite the fact that is the only record that I have ever heard to use a steel drum that doesn't conjure up images of TV ads for tropical flavoured fizzy drinks. It also features moogs, big-band funk, liberal use of flutes and possibly every combination of musical instrument in the funk canon. There's even the Simon Park track not featured on the recent Trunk Records/Music De Wolfe "Dawn of the Dead" soundtrack, the opening bars of which signal the first brush with Zombies in the mall.
Excitingly, De Wolfe are now promising us a number of themed compilations over the next year, including one on the Shaw Brothers Kung Fu soundtracks and I'm really hoping there'll be some kind of Simon Park retrospective. You would have to not have ears for this record not to reach you in some way.
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