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Mantronix - King Of The Beats aka The Power [CLIP]


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Break name: The Power

 

Artist: Mantronix

Track name: King Of The Beats

Original release: Join Me Please... (Home Boys - Make Some Noise) 12"

Label: Capitol

Cat number: V-15386

Year: 1988

Drummer:

 

Also available on:

 

Example:

DJ SS - Like A Bird (Revamp)

Bay B Kane - Hello Darkness

 

Notes:

Obviously well known as the beat behind Snap!'s "The Power" it is in fact taken from the multi-chaptered sample masterclass that is Mantronix's "King Of The Beats"

 

Clip: HERE

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Suad used it first, by a whole year i reckon.

 

I know the Princess Ivori is up there listed as 1990 on discogs, but I'm pretty certain I have it on tape of Tim Westwood playing it from late (maybe Oct) 1989

 

The UK release has a Mantronix Remix and says "licenced from Popular Records", yet the US release has a "Wanted (Original UK Radio Mix)" on it! That points to this being the original release:

https://www.discogs....release/2380413

 

I know it was before The Power, which was quite early 1990 (maybe April or May)

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For your enjoyment... (not seen this before!)

 

 

Which also says 1989

 

Ah cool, not seen the video either, nice one! I had the track on a pirate tape from 1990, was unaware of it being 89.

 

The reason i thought SUAD was first, is that the French release of SUAD 3 is stamped for release on 2/4/89 and i thought 5678 came out before that, making it really early 89 at least. Unfortunately 5678 doesn't have a standard "SUAD XX" catalogue number. But i can't find a SUAD 2 release...

 

I dunno, it's all Mantronix's fault!!

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Ahhh! I wonder if that cat no. represents a date

 

Trying to think of the first track I ever heard of Shut Up & Dance... I'm thinking I once heard one of theirs on Max & Dave on Kiss FM once, not sure what. I remember seeing the fly-posters about for their album, which I always found a bit intimidating and off-putting. That was probably after Raving I'm Raving hit the top of the charts.

 

Be interested in hearing about this pirate tape you got and what's on it. Also, found out where the hat & cane motif came from!

http://www.discogs.com/release/893415-Tennents-Puppet-Capers/images

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Haha, DJ Hype looking well DnB..! Great spot!

 

The tape is long gone, 25 years ago! Sadly recycled to make way for new stuff, wish i had some foresight! But the tape has always stuck with me, I don't know the station but the DJ was sending shout outs to Ritchie Malone, because he was ill or something. Some of the tracks were:

 

Unique 3 - Weight for the Bass (Digi House Mix)

Paradise X - 2 Much

Paradox - Jailbreak

Oxygen - Planet Dance (Preferred this to Unique 3's original, sorry!)

Princess Ivori - Wanted

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Doug Lazy - Let It Roll

 

is one I've just discovered uses also! Although a slightly different segment (no bass synth as The Manipulator described)

says on discogs 'Feb 1989'

 

Here's a cool recent article all about the origins of hip house I came across

http://daily.redbull...se-oral-history

 

Still wondering about this 'freestyle' term you mentioned in the other thread - can you go into any more detail about that? :)

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Dunno if i'm right, but i heard the term Freestyle when i was a teenager. Always thought it was just Electro, as it uses the same type of beats. Maybe just with some added latin influence. But that's just an educated guess from the tunes that people played to me.
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Still wondering about this 'freestyle' term you mentioned in the other thread - can you go into any more detail about that? :)

 

It was just a term i heard people say in London, nowhere else that i can remember. It may have been a short lived interim name given to what became 'ardcore. A bit like "Sublow" and "8 bar" being names for what became Dubstep/Grime.

 

I never heard it alot or for a long period, but it was definitely referring to this new breakbeat led style of music, and somehow Hip-House was different. But it was along time ago now, the haze has set in...

 

Internet searches have turned nothing apart from some genre in America that isn't related.

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The American genre is kinda related as it was New York music and connected to the house producers there like Todd Terry, Omar Santana, Carlos Berrios, Chep Nunez etc. some of whom made mad house records with cut up tape edited breakbeats. A lot of freestyle is just latin pop music that sounds a bit like Madonna or something, but there is definitely a connection with house music and then hardcore in turn. Some of the records were sampled in hardcore tunes e.g. Tony G - Tony's Song, which makes an appearance at the start of Edge *1:

 

https://www.discogs.com/Tony-G-Tonys-Song/master/79239

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