Music Madness
LABEL: 10
SERIES: Mantronix Album Megamixes
GROUPING: Single Artist Megamixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1986
CATALOGUE NO: DIX 50
RUNOUT GROOVES: DIX50A-3U-1-2- TOWNHOUSE DMM D (Side A) DIX50B-1U-1-3- (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in December 1986 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
MANTRONIX ‘Music Madness’ LP (10 Records DIX 50)
Hot hip hop without anything screaming out to be a single, liveliest being the rapid-fire rapped and whistled 99-0bpm ‘Electronic Energy Of…’, tunefully unison chanted go go hip hop 0-101⅓bpm ‘Scream’, and ‘Stone Fox Chase’-harmonica-ed 0-98bpm ‘Listen To The Bass Of Get Stupid Fresh Part II’, this latter repeated as the early basis of a 0-98⅓-101⅔-99⅔-0bpm ‘Mega Mix’. Their reported Forties big band foray finds echoes of ‘Sing Sing Sing’ in the 105¼bpm ‘Big Band B-Boy’, the 99bpm ‘Who Is It’, 103bpm ‘We Control The Dice’ and 92bpm title track completing a set whose initial sales have been on import.
SIDE B MIX: MEGA MIX
MIXED BY: Omar Santana
LENGTH: 05:03
GENRE: Hip Hop
COMMENTS: Despite the mixes having the same name on both albums, this is different to the version of the Mega Mix on the U.S. released version of the album which is listed here
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 - Listen To The Bass Of Get Stupid Fresh Part II (1986); Mantronix - Who Is It? (1986); Mantronix - Music Madness (1986); Mantronix - Scream (1986); Mantronix - Electronic Energy Of... (1986)
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a megamix.
SIDE A:
WHO IS IT? - Mantronix
WE CONTROL THE DICE - Mantronix
LISTEN TO THE BASS OF GET STUPID FRESH Part II - Mantronix
BIG BAND B-BOY - Mantronix
SIDE B:
MUSIC MADNESS - Mantronix
ELECTRONIC ENERGY OF... - Mantronix
SCREAM - Mantronix
