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One Down
Music CD CoverPerformer: Material Edition: Music CD Format: Import CD Release Date: 1997-10-21 Music Label: Bcd Soundtracks: - Take a Chance
- I'm the One
- Time Out
- Let Me Have It All
- Come Down
- Holding On
- Memories
- Don't Lose Control
- Bustin' Out
Free Music Notes for One DownFree Music Review: Pop Will Eat Its Experiments.... Hit: 5 Stars
....subtitled "Meet the Original Material Girls"This is Laswell and Bienhorn's foray into funky-pop, and synthet dance moves. 'Course Material has been much more experimental in it's day...taking it's cue form the 80's East Coast avant-punk, intellectual electronica and performance art as culture era. Look up Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass, Blondie and David Byrne w/ Talking Heads, Art of Noise, etc, etc, etc..... This is as funky as it wantsa be with the rendition of Sly Stone's "Let Me Have It All" featuring vocals by funk-rocktress-goddess Nona Hendryx. Listen to Laswell on that bass-line. He and Stone shoulda done something together. What makes this album historic is that this is probably the first vocal solo effort from pop-RandBee artiste Whitney Houston on the dance ditty "Memories". As such, however, don't kick down any doors trying to get this because she's featured on it. This is Laswell and Bienhorn's party and they can cry if they want to... jam if they want to. And they do. From "Take a Chance" to "Holding On" co-written by the great Brian Eno. It worth a mention or two primarily because of the deluge of turntablists and ambient/electronica/trance/triphop/acid jazz folks who need more of an idea of how these 'new sounds' originated and evolved.
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