monkey hips and rice
mp3: dub narcotic sound system – monkey hips and rice … [buy]
i recently unearthed a mix cd that i unfortunately still remember making very late one evening in probably my sophomore or junior year of high school. i’m going to save myself the shame of recounting its contents.. but amid the various tracks expounding on the joys of illicit substances and the like was one true gem i hadn’t listened to in years…. “monkey hips and rice”. aw, spaghetti arms, name your price. it’s a calvin johnson classic.
i’m not sure why i’ve haven’t paid more attention to dub narcotic sound system over the years. the halo benders (or their back catalog at least) were busy changing everything i knew about music around the time i made that mix cd… which inevitably lead to some exploration of beat happening, dub narcotic and anything else calvin had gotten himself involved in. i obviously appreciated “monkey hips and rice” at the time and remember some flirtations with a dub narcotic meets the jon spencer blues explosion album… but i never caught the dub narcotic fever, not in the way the other projects had or would infect me.
i guess i spent several of the following years continuously stuck in a mood with which dnss’ funky/upbeat music just would not align well. that may have been it. johnson’s solo albums fit that period well, so maybe our moods were aligned at the time. either way, i’ve missed out on this indie-funk juggernaut for too long now. as unlikely as it may be, i’ll be on the lookout for boot party or out of your mind on vinyl at the record store tomorrow. and if not, k recs, i’ll be calling.
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