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...Old-school pioneers and Native Tongues Posse founders Afrika Bambaataa turn the shiny Teutonic synthesizer lines from Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” into the electro funk-rap beauty of “Planet Rock...
...only do old-school duo and fellow TV fans 3rd Bass sample dialogue from comedian Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd’s Saturday Night Live routine “Wild And Crazy Guys” on their song “Brooklyn-Queens,” but their peers in EPMD have a whole song called “The Steve Martin,” all about his funky dance in “The Jerk.” Talk about an unlikely hip-hop icon...
...Wipes. Every one of the movies features old-school Hollywood “wipes” of the screen between several shots. No movies besides the prequels have had the balls to do something so wildly anachronistic in the past decade...
...This leaves only the eerily manufactured choir of “aah-aah-aahs.” Then the whole thing descends into breakcore entropy while the lady gets slaughtered.Underground robot heroes 8-Bit take “Hell Yes” to its logical conclusion, replacing the idiotic old-school backing track of the original with a huge, pixilated synth attack. They even give Christina Ricci’s ridiculous sushi waitress voice-samples a counterpart robo-voice companion. Electronic highlanders Boards of Canada make “Broken Drum” genuinely wistful and anguished...
...this normally type-A personality. But I also wonder if my complete inability to lead coupled with a demand for competent male dance partners points out a hypocrisy at the heart of my dancing dilemma. Are we girls contradicting ourselves by asking for both modern equality in life and old-school masculinity on the dance floor? Have most boys forgotten how to lead because society keeps telling men not to assume an upper hand? Then perhaps “bumping and grinding” is the answer, however ironic, to this new-aged gender trouble. If you?...