Sure Beats 2
LABEL: Record Mirror
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1988
CATALOGUE NO: SURE 2
RUNOUT GROOVES: SURE2A1 MPO (Side A) SURE2B1X MPO (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 7" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in September 1988 (source: I have the issue of Record Mirror that it came with)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
‘Sure Beats 2’, free with next week’s rm, turns out to be the truly essential one, with a special stuttered and muttered synth frequency fluttered thumping bubbly 120½-0bpm remix of Coldcut featuring Sweet-Toothed Sonny ‘Acid Drops (Bomb The Mix)’, catchy hooting effect punctuated lurching remorseless clipped rapping (0-)92bpm Cold Crush Brothers ‘The Bronx’ and nervily jumping 0-119⅓-119¼bpm Fourth Floor All-Stars ‘(Fourth Floor) Goin’ Up’ megamix by DJ Mixmaster Tee of various Break Boys, Four Play, Masters At Work and O.N.I.T. (Oh No, It’s Them) tracks
SIDE B MIX: (FOURTH FLOOR) GOIN' UP
MIXED BY: Mixmaster Tee
LENGTH: 04:41
GENRE: House
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
Masters At Work - Alright Alright (1987); Masters At Work - Dum Dum Cry (1987); Fourplay - Make 'Em Rock (Our Way) (1988); O.N.I.T. (Oh No, It's Them) - We're Out Of Control (1988); Break Boys - And The Break Goes On (The Original Freestyle Groove) (1988); Break Boys - The Slammer (1988)
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a megamix.
SIDE A:
ACID DROPS Bomb The Mix - Coldcut featuring Sweet-Toothed Sonny
SIDE B:
THE BRONX - Cold Crush Brothers
