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Looking back now, it’s interesting to find two different video versions floating on YouTube. …and then, a tune I heard from a stranger who was using his own tape to test boom-boxes on sale at a Lechmere department store back in ’83 or ‘84 – it was the Art of Noise’s “Beat Box” (1983). The video offered a great satire of domestic frames and corporate wardrobes, all with an existential edge (along with the figure of HH, jamming from the screen within the screen…) just perfect for the culture of the early 80s… Herbie Hancock, “Rockit” (1983) – A song that seemed both smooth and funky at the same time, grabbed a new edge in the synthesized sound (while, unlike much other synthesized sound of the 80s, maintaining that edge).
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Tunes that your Newcleus post has brought me back to. The early 80s were quite a moment – funk melding with punk (I won’t get started on this again) together with European electronica of the 70s and some of the jazz masters hopping in with their own stuff. to Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock” from ’82).
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Chilly B died of a stroke in 2010.Wow! I remember this tune well and it’s inspired some serious flashbacks this morning (esp. Without a single as noteworthy as "Jam On Revenge" or "Computer Age," and with the advent of Run-D.M.C.'s organic, rock-influenced approach to rap music, Newcleus faded quickly, though the group sporadically recorded and performed, and compilations such as Destination: Earth - The Definitive Newcleus Recordings kept their output in circulation. The first Newcleus LP, Jam on Revenge, was a bit of a disappointment, and their second album, Space Is the Place, did even more poorly upon release in 1984. "Computer Age (Push the Button)" was a more mature single, with accomplished rapping and better synthesizer effects, and it also hit the R&B Top 40. The single hit Top 40 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1983, and its follow-up, the more popular "Jam on It," reached the Top Ten and crossed into the Hot 100, where it peaked at number 56. A huge street success, the track became known unofficially as "the Wikki-Wikki song" (after the refrain) when it was re-released later that year on Sunnyview, it had become "Jam On Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)." The track, "Jam-On Revenge," impressed producer Joe Webb more than the other Newcleus material, and it became the group's first single, released in 1983 on Mayhew Records. With several minutes left at the end of the tape, Newcleus recorded a favorite from their block parties, with each member's vocals sped up to resemble the Chipmunks.
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The foursome named their group Newcleus as a result of the coming together of their families.īy this time, Cenac had begun to accumulate a collection of electronic recording equipment, and the quartet recorded a demo tape of material. Many members - MCs as well as DJs - came and went as the group played block parties all over the borough, and by 1979, the group centered around Cenac, his future wife Yvette "Lady E" Cook, Monique Angevin, and her future husband, Bob "Chilly B" Crafton. The origins of the group lay in a 1977 Brooklyn DJ collective known as Jam-On Productions, which included Ben "Cozmo D" Cenac, his cousin Monique Angevin, and her brother Pete (all of whom were teenagers and still in high school). Newcleus contributed a true electro classic in "Jam on It," a Top Ten R&B hit that has been immortalized on hundreds of hip-hop mixtapes and often included in even techno DJs' sets.