ROBO LOVE!!

I keep not posting because I want to give you this pretarded Ben Sidran track but I can't find the CDR it's burned on. (My turntables are unhooked, dormant, lame.) So here's Jay Burnett's "Drum Machine." I think this may be on a compilation somewhere but fuck that collector thinking. It will do you right, this much I know.

Burnett was the musician/engineer involved with "Planet Rock," and dozens of other early hip-hop killers. This, the first version, was released on Jayco Records in 1982 and credited to Drum Machine. I am not sure who does the vocal, but there are three songwriting credits on the record, one each, I am assuming, for Burnett, the man singer and the lady singer. "Drum Machine" was bafflingly re-released in 1985 on Def Jam, modified by the addition of a vocal from MCA of the Beasties and some pixie dust from Arthur Baker, another "Planet Rock" alumnus.

My turntables don't work etc, so I haven't heard the Def Jam version in ages. I think I like the original version better.

There's not much to say—big ass pseudo toms, elephant fart bassline, killer clomp steez. Let there be bass.

Posted by Sasha at January 25, 2005 12:30 PM