Word: uptempo
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...those are just the straight uptempo numbers. If the tune's your thing, you won't find much bigger hooks than "Daydream Believer," and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" has a breezy, lovely Carole King melody; social commentary never felt so un-preachy. They didn't play much on the early stuff, but Mickey Dolenz could really sing, and when they finally did start to play their own instruments, the difference wasn't all that noticeable...
...When Greenberg presented the idea, group leader Isiah Taylor, 50, rejected it. He thought the song was too Caribbean for the American charts. He was probably right. The original version was a soca (soulful calypso), a horn-heavy, uptempo form that is played at Caribbean carnivals across the U.S. every summer but has never really caught on. When Baha Men finally recorded "Dogs," they explored beats more familiar to American audiences - throwing in some junkanoo (Bahamian festival music) percussion to give it their signature flair. The result is the catchy rendition you've heard so often: urban, with an echo...
...bars on the Bowery, where a slumming uptown bartender has finagled a cheap P.A. and convinced some downtown bands to play. We switch to the gin I have in a hip flask. Kim, lead singer of Da Willys, throws herself to the floor in the middle of a an uptempo version of "Last Train to Clarksville". She moves out into the audience - still clutching the microphone, still singing - on her hands and knees. I look down and she?s crawling between my legs...
...Home Entertainment and Jungle Sky Records that have featured such luminaries of the New York electronic scene as DJ Soul Slinger, DJ Spooky and DJ Wally. Given this remarkable pedigree, DJ Silver's debut seems, at first, disappointing. Liquid Sky Music's first release, Don't Panic! is an uptempo concoction of four-on-the-floor beats and thick synth lines. But DJ Silver is deceptive. This is much more than a dance album. Although tracks like "B My Dog" and "Wardance (Never Trust a Hippie)" have dancefloor potential, these songs are often far too erratic and cerebral to liven...
...Breath Away" vocals. There's an edgy feeling caused by the precise pruning of the synths and vocal samples midway, and this collage effect both reinvigorates old samples (Gwen McCrae's voice on "Feeling for You") and draws you into new songs ("La Mouche"). It's not all uptempo, though. Cassius's clean, even sparse, beats shift into low gear occasionally in tunes like "Nulife". No pre-millennial tension in 1999: the French have made fun in dance music respectable again. This last tango in Paris has legs...