| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/atlantic | | UPC: 00075678290527 | | Release Date: 6/21/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60148677 | | Item#: MCCPRS | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 26588 | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Quad City DJ's: "Jayski" McGowan, JeLana "Lana" LaFleur. | | Additional personnel: The 69 Boyz. | | Producers: "Jayski" McGowan, "Thrill Da Playa." | | Recorded at Da Junk Yard, Orlando, Florida. | | The beats are slammin' and the groove jammin' as super producers Bass Mechanics--the team behind 95 South's "Whoot, There It Is"--bring us a full-length collection of phat tracks guaranteed to move yo' derriere. Leading off with the hit single "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)," the masters of bass fuse old-school lyrical delivery with innovative, new-school funk and bass rhythms to create party music that is familiar yet refreshing, and definitely danceable. The DJ's' funky sound is complemented by the jazzy vocals of JeLana LaFleur, resulting in a driving, funky, catchy bass sound that makes you want to GET ON UP AND DANCE. | | If the majority of bass music producers were even half as talented as C.C. Lemonhead and Jay Ski, the genre might have become more than a hokey cul-de-sac off hip-hop road. The Jacksonville, FL, production team of Lemonhead and Ski were responsible not only for the anthems "Whoot (There It Is)" and "Tootsie Roll" (as 95 South and 69 Boyz, respectively), but they also struck platinum with Quad City DJ's' "C'mon n' Ride It (The Train)." One of the biggest singles of 1996, the song was a relentlessly catchy workout full of witty, shoutable lyrical couplets. Just as the duo's previous triumphs had, "C'mon n' Ride It" extricated the raunch from bass music, but retained and even expanded on the booty-shaking rhythms, almost to cartoonish proportions. While "C'mon n' Ride It" was a success as a single, applying its formula to a bankable album was a trickier prospect. Lemonhead and Ski didn't necessarily succeed with Get on up and Dance -- it suffers from repetition, and nothing is as undeniably catchy as the single. But as nothing more than a party record, Get on Up is a harmless, humorous, and entertaining diversion. "Work Baby Work (The Prep)" is almost a dub plate of "C'mon n' Ride It," "Summer Jam" reinterprets the summery piano line of Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" over a rap that cops the meter of "Tootsie Roll," and "Hey DJ" steals Ready for the World's "Love You Down" (just as INOJ later would for her So So Def-affiliated single "Love You Down"). Hovering at an average of 132 beats per minute, Get on up and Dance also never makes the mistake of including a ballad or an unfunny skit. It's all about dancing, all the time. Two "C'mon n' Ride It" remixes close out the party on a familiar and fun note. ~ Johnny Loftus |
Engineer: Rob & Reem; C.C. Lemonhead |
Musical Guests | | 69 Boyz |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/25/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 82905 | | Label : Big Beat Records (Dance) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 54m : 32s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00075678290527 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (9/96, pp.151-152)
- 6 - Reasonably Good - "...Primal gin-and-juice-party frat shouts collide with sweet technotronic melodicness, speed-racing in both modes and transforming electro-keyboard planet-jams back into the lowdown deep-South do-the-locomotion whorehouse boogie-woogies they were born as."Entertainment Weekly (12/27/96-1/3/97, pp.146-148)
- Ranked #6 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the `Top 10 Albums And Singles Of 1996.' |
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