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- Date Released: January 1, 1986
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Electro, Hip-Hop
- Label: Sleeping Bag Records / Warlock
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They Say...
Many Mantronix fans will tell you that the group provided its best and most essential work when it was signed to the small Sleeping Bag label and MC Tee was still on board. Listening to Music Madness, it's hard to argue with that. This 1986 LP, which was Mantronix's second album and its last album before leaving Sleeping Bag for Capitol, is proof of how fresh-sounding and creative Mantronix was in the beginning. The futuristic outlook that defines "Scream," the single "Who Is It," and other tracks sets Music Madness apart from other hip-hop albums that came from New York in 1986; Tee's rapping is very much in the 1980s b-boy tradition, but the club-minded producing and mixing of Curtis "Mantronik" Khaleel is unlike anything you would have heard on a Run-D.M.C. or L.L. Cool J album back then. And that fact wasn't lost on hip-hop's hardcore, which felt that Music Madness wasn't street enough. Mantronik was fond of saying that his goal was to "take rap a step beyond the streets," and this album tended to attract dance music and electro-funk lovers and club hounds more than hardcore hip-hoppers. The Album remains Mantronix's best album, but this excellent LP runs a close second.
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Who is it |
6:10 |
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| 02. | |
We control the dice |
3:57 |
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| 03. | |
Listen to the bass of get stupid fresh part II |
4:29 |
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| 04. | |
Ladies UK remix |
3:55 |
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| 05. | |
Big band B-boy |
4:45 |
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| 06. | |
Music madness |
5:28 |
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| 07. | |
Electronic energy of… |
5:33 |
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| 08. | |
Scream |
5:27 |
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| 09. | |
Megamix |
5:06 |
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09 Total Tracks, 44:50 Total Length
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