Title: Straight from the streets of SF..release news from Smash Hit Music Co
Date Added: 09 May 2005

Disco Dimensions Vol. 1 CD - Various Artists - Smash Hit Music Co.

For those of you who may venture a little deeper into the disco funk realm this compilation from San Francisco's new Smash Hit Music Co.
will be right up your alley. The selection of tracks is top notch, and includes some brand new gems as well as sought after obscurities from leading names in the game. Genre blockbusters Chicken Lips kick things off with their laid back "Three Soaps In One" setting the tone for more bulging basslines and delectable grooves to come.
Other highlights definitely include Ray Mang's party jump-starting remix of "I'm Just a Sucka for a Pretty Face," red-hot cool band Chk Chk Chk's "Pardon My Freedom" brilliantly reworked for the dancefloor by the ever creative Maurice Fulton, Manheads infectious new anthem "Birth, School Work Death," perhaps the Greenskeepers most daring cut off their new Pleetch album, "Lotion," and two heaping slabs of head-nodding funkadelia from THE man of the moment, Hans-Peter Lindstrom.
" A Hundred Birds, Stranger, Gommagang, Putsch '79 and DJ Harry all also make the roll call making this a modern-day must have for anyone on board the funk train. If this is any indication of what's to come from Smash Hit Music Co. they are looking at a bright future indeed.

Cymande - Renegades of Funk EP 12"- Smash Hit Music Co.

This is the second release from the new San Francisco music collective.
How they got their green little hands on the rights to remix one of the funkiest bands of all time will maybe remain a mystery forever.
Regardless, we're glad they did as no kinder justice could have been done to these two classics from the 70's funk era. First off, to own "Brothers on the Slide" and "Fug" in their original studio form on a 12" is pretty dope indeed.
Not to mention the varied and extra chunky remix action courtesy of the Greenskeepers and Ruffy & Tuffy. On the A-side R&T stay true to the original "Brothers On the Slide", upping the tempo for the dance floor and laying some some seriously smacking beats.
They head into a nice disco dub section towards the end before bringing it back to the rumpshaking breakbeats underneath Cymande's powerful scat vocals. On the flip the Greenskeepers completely rework "Fug" into a contemporary style and arrangement few in the business could pull off with such elegance and oomph within the same 6 minutes. Another winner from Smash Hit. This one won't last on shelves long at all.

-- Smash Hit Music Co.
776 Stanyan St. #4
San Francisco, CA 94117
ph/fx: +1 (415) 379-6137
www.smashhitmusicco.com

Aine