It's a Bank Holiday here so I thought we'd have some tense, agitated punk-funk from 1981. There's a new compilation of Adrian Sherwood's early production work out (Sherwood at The Controls Volume 1, 1979-1984) covering Mark Stewart, The Slits, Prince Far I, The Fall, African Head Charge, Shriekback and loads more. It's wiry, dub and reggae influenced, political stuff, very 1981. Adrian Sherwood doesn't get the respect he deserves- well he does, but it's a very niche respect. He has been making essential music for so long yet is so unknown by so many. This song, Hungry So Angry by Medium Medium, was I'll admit a new one to me- I was only eleven in 1981 and wasn't listening to stuff this far into the leftfield. It has loads to commend it, even with the slap bass, like a simmeringly furious ACR. Stick this on at neighbour-worrying volume levels later and see what happens.
This is bloody great. Where did that 34 years go?
ReplyDeleteStopped me in my tracks a bit when I first heard it- like a less screechy James Chance.
ReplyDeleteThis was the one that was bugging me a couple of months ago, couldn't get it out of my head following a comment one morning about being "so hungry" ! I do still like it, although I'd only just got it out of my head and now it's back!;-)
ReplyDeleteThe comp. sounds like a good'un. I agree, Mr Sherwood deserves a lot of respect.
So Hungry So Angry is one of the stand out tracks of my youth. It's the best Fractured Funk track that ever came out of the UK. It has and anger and urgency that NYC Mutant Disco and Funk lacked, but it fits in so well with that scene and was a massive club track.
ReplyDeleteC- sooner or later the internet throws up the answers.
ReplyDeleteDislocated dance at its very best. Sounds like a great compilation album.
ReplyDeleteI used to have the first New Age Steppers 45. Wish I'd kept it
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