Playtime

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 63:10

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Totally funky grooves!

hrrrmo

If you like your electronic music dirty, groovy, funky & sexy you need to get this album and check out The Strike Boys in general! Awesome. Constantly on my playlists.

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OddballDance

Tommy Yamaha and Martin Kaisa definitely know how to groove. This record is devilish funky. The instrumental “Playtime Theme” works well as funky overture. “I Am A Witness” is an outstanding electronic funk number, but the rest isn't bad either. “Find My Way” sung by Cyrena Dunbar explores trip-hopping territories. “Everybody” is electronic raggamuffin. “It's On U” updates P-Funk with Detroit techno flavour. “Outer Space”, the second track sung by Cyrena Dunbar, is cool electronic soul. The bonus track of the album called “No Music” was written and performed together with Malente. It's a weird distorted alien funk track.

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Tommy Yamaha and Martin Kaiser first joined forces in 1990 in Nuremberg, where they quickly gained a solid reputation as DJs and purveyors of all-around quirky breakbeat and downtempo electronica. On Playtime, their third full-length album, the overarching influence is reggae with a healthy dollop of hip-hop thrown into the mix as well. Not every track is perfect — Playtime opens awkwardly with the funky but strangely monotonous “Playtime Theme,” and “It’s on U” features unexceptional vocals by one Eddie Greene — but most of them come very close. The highlights are those songs that feature MC Blaze, a young female rapper who is equally at home riding the rhythm old-school style and chatting in a more modern, aggressive vein. Then there’s the pumping mid-tempo strut of “Outer Space,” which showcases the smooth vocal talents of Cyrena Dunbar and manages simultaneously to sound spacy, earthy, funky, and soothing. On “Deeper One” the duo delivers a swinging, subtly dubwise instrumental of beguiling complexity. Very, very nice. – Rick Anderson

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