The Payback Mix
LABEL: Urban
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: Single Artist Megamixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1988
CATALOGUE NO: URBX 17
RUNOUT GROOVES: URBX-17-A1 MT. (Side A) URBX-17-B1 MT. (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in April 1988 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
JAMES BROWN ‘The Payback Mix — Keep On Doing What You’re Doing But Make It Funky’ (Urban URBX 17)
Originally titled on promo as ‘Coldcut Meets The Godfather’ but finally out commercially with all mention of Coldcut totally removed, Matt Black and Jonathan More instead being credited just on the sleeve as its mixers, this brilliant 0-110⅙(most of it)-109(final ‘Sex Machine’)-113-110½-0bpm megamix of Mr Brown and associated acts is already a massive dancefloor smash, coupled now with 1973’s sinuously jiggling 101-100½-99½-98⅓bpm ‘Stone To The Bone’, 1969’s relentlessly thrashing and screaming 117-115⅔-114-115⅔-114⅔-113⅔-116-114bpm ‘Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose’ (in a remix), and 1967’s classic brassily chugging 111⅔-113-111⅔-113-112⅓-113bpm ‘Cold Sweat‘ (which’ll always remind me of driving through the Texas desert with it blaring from the radio, as “the brand new sound of Brown in our town, mama, layin’ it down pound by pound — my, my, my!”). Norman Cook and Streets Ahead’s ‘The Final Mixdown‘ revamp of the A-side is also apparently due this week, though surely seems unlikely quite so soon?
SIDE A MIX: THE PAYBACK MIX Keep On Doing What You're Doing But Make It Funky
MIXED BY: Coldcut
LENGTH: 05:11
GENRE: Funk/Soul
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:
Otis Redding - Good To Me [Live] (1966); James Brown - It's A Man's Man's Man's World (1966); Kurtis Blow - A.J. Scratch (1984); Bobby Byrd - Hot Pants: I'm Coming, Coming, I'm Coming (1971); Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s - Introduction To The J.B.'s (1973); J.B.'s - The Grunt (1970); James Brown - Get Up I Feel Like Being Like A Sex Machine (1970); James Brown - Funky Drummer (1970); James Brown - Sex Machine Part I And Part II (1975); James Brown - Get On The Good Foot (1972); Maceo & The Macks - Cross The Track (We Better Go Back) (1974); James Brown - Make It Funky (1971); Lyn Collins - We Want To Parrty, Parrty, Parrty (1973); Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul (1971); James Brown & The Famous Flames - Cold Sweat (1967); James Brown - Talkin' Loud And Saying Nothin' (1970); Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s - I'm Payin' Taxes, What Am I Buyin'? (1974); James Brown - Soul Power (1971); James Brown - I Can't Stand It '76 (1974); Lyn Collins - Think (About It) (1972); James Brown - Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (1969)
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a megamix.
SIDE A:
STONE TO THE BONE - James Brown
SIDE B:
GIVE IT UP OR TURNIT A LOOSE Remix - James Brown
COLD SWEAT - James Brown
