Heavy Friends
Saturday December 7th, 2019 with Chris Ikonomopoulos
A segment where you guess the theme | A look at the decline of tempo in rap music | More
| Segment 1: Guess That Theme! Something connects all these tracks. How long will it take for Heavy Listeners to call it out?! |
| Fever Grass Dub The Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub - Clocktower |
| Atmosphere Mirageman - Thunder & Lightning - Irma La Douce - 01972 |
| Dimension 5ive 5th Dimension - 7" - Bell - 01970 |
| The Long Hair Of Death Stereolab - Aluminum Tunes - Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks - 01997 |
| Funk Rings Urszula Dudziak - 7" - Arista - 01975 |
| ? Mice Parade - The True Meaning Of Boodleybaye - Bubble Core Records - 01998 |
| Cha Tatch Ka Bernard Estardy - Space Oddities 1970-1982 - Born Bad Records - 02018 |
| Main Theme (version 2) Dennis Coffey & Luchi de Jesus - Black Belt Jones - Weintraub-Heller Production - 01972 |
| Fugue In D The Les Swingle Singers - 7" - Philips - 01963 |
| Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters - - Josie - 01970 |
| Segment 2: The Decline of BPM in Rap Music
From Disco Rap in the late 70s and early 80s to beginning of raps Golden era in the late 80s and early 90s, the tempo of rap music steadily slowed. By late 90s it had its "formula" down with some notable exceptions. The 2000s til now see it crossover is all sorts of [tempo] ways but slow ever more with trap and other related halftime rhythms. |
| Lookin' Good [120 bpm] Eddie Cheeba - 12" - Tree Line - 01979 |
| Super Wolf Can Do It [115 bpm] Super Wolf - 12" - Quality - 01980 |
| US Girls [109 bpm] Sharon Green [aka Sha Rock], Lisa COunts & Debbie D - Beat Street - Atlantic - 01984 |
| I Know You Got Soul [104 bpm] Eric B. & Rakim - 12" - 4th & Broadway - 01987 |
| Pick Up On This [100 bpm] Cookie Crew - 12" - FFRR Records - 01989 |
| Check The Rhyme [96 bpm] A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory - Jive - 01991 |
| Runnin' [94 bpm] The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia - Delicious Vinyl - 01995 |
| One Of A Kind [97 bpm] Blackalicious - Quanuum Spectrum - Quanuum Projects - 01999 |
| As expected, always exceptions |
| Ain't No Party [73 bpm] Lil' Flip - U Gotta Feel Me - Screwed & Chopped - Columbia - 02004 |
| Let It Roll [115 bpm] Groove B Chill - Starting From Zero - A&M - 01991 |
| B.O.B [155 bpm] OutKast - 12" - LaFace - 02000 |
| Are You Experienced? [alternate version instrumental!] Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy - Experience Hendrix |
| Calling All The Devil's Children Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy - Experience Hendrix |
| Memories Can't Wait Living Colour - Vivid - Epic - 01988 |
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Good evening to all. If you have any guesses on the mystery theme, this is the place to weigh in!
8:23 PM, December 7th, 2019