Various Artists / Blank Generation: Blank Tapes Nyc 1975-1985, The
Album: Blank Generation: Blank Tapes Nyc 1975-1985, The   Collection:General
Artist:Various Artists   Added:Mar 2010
Label:Strut  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2010-08-22 Pull Date: 2010-10-24
Week Ending: Oct 3 Sep 19 Sep 12 Sep 5 Aug 29
Airplays: 2 1 1 4 5

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 02, 2010: lost and found
Itching For Love
4. Sep 11, 2010: Lost Afternoon Delight
I Got A Big Bee
2. Sep 30, 2010: brother of sophocles
State Of Art
5. Sep 04, 2010: lost and found
Over Like A Fat Rat
3. Sep 18, 2010: lost and found
Where Pathways Meet
6. Sep 02, 2010: Abra's Airwaves
It's A Better Time Then Good Time (Walter Gibbons Rmx)

Album Review
Brick
Reviewed 2010-08-12
BLANK GENERATION TAPES

Killer disco mixtape. Unearthed tape classics from 1975-1985, a disco DJ's delight. Legitimate superfunk soulgasm. Make babies on the dancefloor, get lewd. FCC clean. Each song is some sort of sonic cousin of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life. great shtuff.

fcc clean- brick-

1- disco excess. big diva, big booty bounce, goofy syths
2- clickey clack cowbell polyrhytmic latinodiscostomp
3- plinky superfine soul funk with killer keys & horn lixx
4- sun ra does the dirty disco, this is fantastic shit
5- herky jerky new wave electro, better than devo, gary numan like
6- jazzy new york swing & wonky guitar. summertime swag.
7- straight ahead tower of power style funk music
8- disco killer track, fake jackson 5 kid talking about their big b
9- big new jack discopop w/ diva itching for loves, cool effects
10- superswank soulful piano line & cool bass
11- real driving pulse, diva & chorus hooks are real catchy, danceflooor groove & bongo outro
12- chic polyrhtymic dubby new wave electrodisco strut
13- bent out shifty echoing loungy vibraphone soul. i'd like to be this emile guy they're singing about.

Track Listing
 ArtistTrack Name
1. Debby Blackwell Once You Got Me Going
2. Charanga 76 Music Trance
3. Milton Hamilton Crystalized
4. Sun Ra Where Pathways Meet
5. Necessaries, The State Of Art
6. Lydia Lunch A Cruise To The Moon
7. James Blood Ulmer Jazz Is The Teacher, Funk Is The Preacher
8. Bumblebee Unlimited I Got A Big Bee
9. Mikki Itching For Love
10. Fonda Rae Over Like A Fat Rat
11. Gladys Knight It's A Better Time Then Good Time (Walter Gibbons Rmx)
12. Lola Wax The Van (Jon's Dub)
13. Aural Exciters Emile (Night Rate)