In Full Effect
LABEL: 10
SERIES: Mantronix Album Megamixes
GROUPING: Single Artist Megamixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1988
CATALOGUE NO: DIX 74
RUNOUT GROOVES: DIX74A-3U-1-1 POUNDA TAPE (Side A) DIX74B-1U-1-1 (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in March 1988 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
MANTRONIX ‘In Full Effect’ (US Capitol CI-48336)
An initially disappointing album although its good points grow on one, this has the fast talking (to the tune of Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybelline’) jiggly 96⅔bpm ‘Gangster Boogie’, frenetically jittery juddering 95½bpm ‘In Full Effect‘, juddery scratching instrumental 0-99⅙bpm ‘Do You Like…Mantronik (?)‘, scratch technique crammed (0-)99-101⅔-97-99⅓-97⅓-100½-95bpm ‘Mega-Mix (’88)‘, crowd noises accompanied wriggly jogging 95-0bpm ‘Join Me Please (Home Boys-Make Some Noise)‘, bass boomed strolling 0-87bpm ‘Get Stupid (Part III)‘, romantically talking piano tinkled lurching slow 76bpm ‘Love Letter (Dear Tracy)’, guitar splurged jittery thudding 100bpm ‘Simple Simon (You Gotta Regard)’, and violently scratched urgently lurching (0-)98⅔-0bpm ‘Sing A Song (Break It Down)’ (sounding stronger now than it did in isolation on 12 inch).
SIDE B MIX: MEGA-MIX '88
MIXED BY: Kurtis Mantronik
LENGTH: 04:51
GENRE: Hip Hop
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:
Mantronix - Get Stupid Part III (1988); Mantronix - Sing A Song (Break It Down) (1987); Mantronix - In Full Effect (1988); Mantronix - Do You Like... Mantronik? (1988); Mantronix - Gangster Boogie (Walk Like Sex... Talk Like Sex) (1988); Mantronix - Simple Simon (You Gotta Regard) (1988); Mantronix - Join Me Please... (Home Boys-Make Some Noise) (1988)
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a megamix.
SIDE A:
JOIN ME PLEASE... Home Boys Make Some Noise - Mantronix
LOVE LETTER Dear Tracy - Mantronix
GANGSTER BOOGIE Walk Like Sex... Talk Like Sex - Mantronix
IN FULL EFFECT In Full Effect - Mantronix
GET STUPID Part III - Mantronix
SIDE B:
SIMPLE SIMON You Gotta Regard - Mantronix
SING A SONG Break It Down - Mantronix
DO YOU LIKE... MANTRONIK? - Mantronix
