Once you get past the speed and buzzing little bass textures, a lot of Moonshine's compilations are as faceless as bad disco. But this has to be one of label prez Stephen Levy's best collections. Heavy on a lot of names no one ever saw on his Moonshine Over America tour rosters, it closes out with Sagat's "Why Is It (Funk Dat)" (from the 1996 Max Mix USA compilation), where a clown who could be Godfrey Cambridge hangs his gripes from a sax riff as bent as a used paper clip. He carps about people who give too much (flyers), ...
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Once you get past the speed and buzzing little bass textures, a lot of Moonshine's compilations are as faceless as bad disco. But this has to be one of label prez Stephen Levy's best collections. Heavy on a lot of names no one ever saw on his Moonshine Over America tour rosters, it closes out with Sagat's "Why Is It (Funk Dat)" (from the 1996 Max Mix USA compilation), where a clown who could be Godfrey Cambridge hangs his gripes from a sax riff as bent as a used paper clip. He carps about people who give too much (flyers), people who take too much (handouts), people who eyeball (neighbors), and last but not least people who call to talk about nothing. And why shouldn't they talk about nothing? The words don't matter. They were long outraced by the truly fine dance rhythms strung together in Levy's remix. X-Press' opening cut is just a good ol' disco anthem: Once "London X-Press"' traditional disco bass and drums get up to full gallop, the string synthesizer hits one chord and holds it for who knows how many bars, periodically relieved by a brief second note and some fake bells. From there, every track shoots for Tomorrowland, applying a little Icy Hot to formulas traceable to the older, colder, harder New Order. And, in violation of the faceless-compilation rule, there are two chart-topping groups represented here: Snap! is featured with "Do You See the Light?" (called "See the Light" on 1993's The Madman Returns album) and Prodigy, an official public entity after The Fat of the Land, contributes "Out of Space" (fromExperience). The latter is a catchy item, though it's odd that Liam Howlett's clever reggae-into-hyperspeed sounds a little dated now. But though the words don't matter, the songs that use romantic demands for catch phrases are more memorable than the instrumentals (cf. Alison Price's "I Need I Want"). ~ John Young, Rovi
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