Downtown 81 [Soundtrack] [Import] [PR]

Various Artists （Recall）

CD
発売日：2007年11月6日(火)

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『DOWNTOWN 81』 (1981)

曲目リスト ※試聴はAmazonでどうぞ。

So Far So Real
K Pasa Pop I
Desire
Cavern
Blonde Redhead
Sax Maniac
I'm a Doggy
Contort Yourself
Drum Mode
The Closet
Palabras Coin Ritmo
Bob the Bob
Tangita
Mr. Softee
Cheree
Detached
15 Minutes
Copy
New Day
81
Beat Bop

レビュー (Amazon)
What a fantastic trip down memory lane this is! As its title suggests, Downtown 81 is mostly set in New York's East Village and Lower East Side in the early '80s; the movie follows Jean (played by then-unknown painter Jean-Michel Basquiat) through blasted streets looking like war zones and in clubs pulsing with ear-melting music. The CD careers from post-punk abrasion (DNA's "Blonde Redhead" and "Detached"), to proto-electronics (Suicide's "Cheree," Plastics' "Copy"), to Latin- and disco-tinged danceathons that make contemporary would-be funksters sound downright pallid (Kid Creole & the Coconuts with Coati Mundi's "K Pasa-Pop I"). And then there's James Chance's "Sax Maniac," which bring both approaches together in a skronky, funky explosion. The most famous melody here may well be the bass line from Liquid Liquid's "Cavern," which was famously sampled on Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines." The intensity is often furthered by the fact that some of these are live versions, and the quality level is really high throughout. A great collection for fans of inventive, hard-to-classify music, and a worthy complement to Soul Jazz's New York Noisecompilations. --Elisabeth Vincentelli