| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/rhino | | UPC: 00081227676728 | | Release Date: 3/20/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60464012 | | Item#: MHJTK5 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Bonafied Funk - (featuring Main Source) ~ The Brand New Heavies |  | | 2. It's Gettin Hectic - (featuring Gang Starr) ~ The Brand New Heavies | | | 3. Who Makes The Loot? - (featuring Grand Puba) ~ The Brand New Heavies | | | 4. Wake Me When I'm Dead - (featuring Wake Me When I'm Dead) ~ The Brand New Heavies | | | 5. Jump N' Move - (featuring Jamal-Ski) ~ The Brand New Heavies | | | 6. Death Threat - (featuring Kool G. Rap) ~ The Brand New Heavies | | | 7. State Of Yo - (featuring Black Sheep) ~ The Brand New Heavies | | | 8. Do Whatta I Gotta Do - (featuring Ed O.G.) ~ The Brand New Heavies | | | 9. Whatgabouthat - (featuring Tiger) ~ The Brand New Heavies | | | 10. Soul Flower - (featuring The Pharcyde) ~ The Brand New Heavies | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | The Brand New Heavies: Simon Bartholomew (guitar); Andrew Levy (bass); Jan Kincaid (drums). | | Additional personnel includes: Gang Starr, Main Source, Grand Puba, Masta Ace, Ed O.G., Black Sheep, Kool G. Rap, Tiger, Pharcyde, Jamalski (vocals); Mike Smith (saxophone); Martin Shaw (trumpet); Paul Daley (percussion). | | Producers include: The Brand New Heavies, Orlando Aguillen. | | Engineers include: Tim Orford, Joe Primeau, Jay Lean. | | Includes liner notes by James Bernard. | | The Brand New Heavies collaborate with a stylistic assortment of rappers on their second album, but the jazzy soul sound of HEAVY RHYME EXPERIENCE, which is live rather than sampled, is all their own. The Heavy trio of Simon Bartholomew, Andrew Levy and Jan Kincaid, who came up through London's acid-jazz underground, is a rock-solid core with a natural affinity for rhythms that twist and turn. The Heavies move easily from the rubbery, pogoing dancehall of "Jump N' Move," which features Jamalski, to a mellow vibe over which Guru throws down looser rhymes on "It's Gettin Hectic." Main Source rides a slow groove deep into the pocket of "Bonafide Funk," on which horns lazily fade out at the end of every other measure. The Heavies are equally capable of laying down a noir-ish groove, as they do to match Kool G. Rap's menacing rhymes on "Death Threat." We eagerly await Volume 2. |
| | Artist Overview | | Formed in the late 1980s, London-based collective the Brand New Heavies introduced a revolutionary new style of funk and dance music when they broke onto the British club scene. Mixing classic funk, jazz licks and chord structures, and dancefloor rhythms, the Brand New Heavies were credited as being one of the very first acid jazz acts, and charted high in both England and the U.S. The group also parlayed serious love from the hip-hop community into the sensational collaborative album HEAVY RHYME EXPERIENCE, VOL. 1. Though acid jazz faded by the late '90s, the Heavies continued to record and perform, releasing the well-received GET USED TO IT in 2006. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/20/2001 | | Original Release Date : 1992 | | Catalog ID : 76767 | | Label : Delicious Vinyl (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 35m : 33s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227676728 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (8/28/92, p.65)
- "...a jumping hip hop album....proves that rap played by live musicians can slam nearly as hard as anything out of Compton..." - Rating: BVibe (Fall/92, p.29)
- "...aspires to greatness..." The Source (9/92, p.55)
- 3.5 Stars (out of 5)
- "...the Brand New Heavies bring a bold mixture of funk, acid and jazz to the sphere of rap....the Heavies prove that hip hop can survive without samples....A must for your collection....consistently entertaining..." Option (Nov.-Dec./92, p.101)
- "...the Brand New Heavies have decided to take what Sugar Hill did with live instruments and make it more street credible by injecting it with legit scratching and sampling..." Musician (10/92, p.100)
- "...delivers a few superior jams....generally engaging results..." |
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