Overweight Beats
LABEL: In Effect
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: 80's U.K. Bootleg Mixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1988
CATALOGUE NO: ELI1
RUNOUT GROOVES: ELI1A/1420T
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: This is a one sided record. Released in January 1988 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
THE FRAUD SQUAD ‘Overweight Beats’ (In Effect Records ELI-1)
Although this single-sided jiggly 0-104-106⅔-104bpm scratch-up by Maurice ‘The Wildcat’ Bird of Heavy D & The Boyz’ beats (plus some ‘Bring The Noise’) is made to look like an import bootleg, its obviously English inner sleeve and matrix number soon established it to be a scam masterminded by MCA’s UK product manager, Eli Hourd. Don’t be fooled!
MAURICE BIRD, known as ‘The Wildcat’ when scratching the Fraud Squad’s ‘Overweight Beats’, turns out to be MCA Records’ post boy!
SIDE A: OVERWEIGHT BEATS
MIXED BY: The Fraud Squad
LENGTH: 06:37
