MC TUNES - THE RESULTS

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15. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (ZERO GRAVITY MIX) (1990) [636 points, 39 votes, 2 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5J2Dfi_0no

(Original video unavailable on Youtube, unfortunately)

j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link

Certainly splitting the vote lol amirite?

Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link

ZTT loved a few money-spinning remixes.

j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:52 (twelve years ago) link

Can you imagine an Art of noise tracks poll?

Mark G, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:53 (twelve years ago) link

Just digging out some of the blurbs.

I'm sorry, I have nothing, I justed wanted to look like a big man on one of the Hip Hop polls, prove I'm not a one trick pony, y'know? Just make something up about tørrfisk and I'll get back to you.

j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link

Hope he's gonna stick around to enjoy some melodic Candyflip beats.

cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:20 (twelve years ago) link

14. SECOND CLASS RETURN TO DOTTINGHAM PLEASE (1983) [675 points, 50 votes, 8 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhnKjR0ESPs&feature=related

Think some of you were wrong about this, he looks almost unrecognisable without the beard, but who am I to argue with the poll system?

j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:24 (twelve years ago) link

^ would have been my number one, but I didn't vote in case somebody said that it was unnecessary

Food Processors Are Grebt (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link

Tunes Helps You Breathe More Easily Remix.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:52 (twelve years ago) link

Essentially, for me, music is a metaphor, a tool for reflection. We need to think of music as information, not simply as rhythms, but as codes for aesthetic translation between blurred categories that have slowly become more and more obsolete. For me, the Dj metaphor is about thinking around the concept of collage and its place in the everyday world of information, computational modelling, and conceptual art. All of them offer exits from the tired realms of Euro-centric philosophy into some kind of pan humanism. That’s why I like Deleuze and Guattari’s work. Other figures from the European aesthetic realm like Ludwig Feuerbach (who promoted the idea of “humanism” in his works of the mid 19th century), Spinoza, and Giordano Bruno’s exploration of Semiotics are also influences, but the basic sense of “rhizomatic” thought - thinking in meshworks, in nets that extend to other nets - it’s the driving force of my music and art. It's about making multiple rhythms work together, synchronized, cut, pasted, and collaged. That’s the real “abstract machine” - cross reference that with James Brown, think Garrett A. Morgan (the African American inventor of the street light - the choreography on every street corner of the global megalopolis), think Duke Ellington with his “Afro-Eurasian Eclipse” jazz modernity, think Albert Murray’s essay “Spyglass Tree”, think Detroit’s underground forerunners, stuff like Drexciya, but most of all MC Tunes' "Second Class Return To Dottingham Please"

Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link

Dottingham IN DA HOUSE

Actual LOL Tolhurst (Doran), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:47 (twelve years ago) link

13. THIS AIN'T NO FANTASY (1990) [712 points, 47 votes, 3 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYanc6FJZRI

(Video not available on Youtube, unfortunately)

j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link

great to see the chill beats represented

blueski, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link

Only twelve to go. Trying to work out what's missing. If I've called the bankers right, by my reckoning either 'The Only Rhyme That Bites' or 'Tunes Splits The Atom' isn't going to make it.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:53 (twelve years ago) link

hang on in there, i'm working on some more jokes

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link

nothing from his 1999 album "Manconia" so far, v disappointing

blueski, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link

Think "Bombs Over Bolton" is in with a shout tbh

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 10:34 (twelve years ago) link

RIP

Dear Projectionist (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link

ANCOATlians

Actual LOL Tolhurst (Doran), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

Our Kid n'Play

Actual LOL Tolhurst (Doran), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link

This 'Noodle Vague' fellow sure knows how to work a crowd. Must have been taking lessons from the one, the only ...

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

Results so far

20. DUB AT ITS HEIGHTS (1990) [532 points, 20 votes, 1 number one]
19. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (CREAMATOMIC RAP) (1990) [564 points, 31 votes]
18. CONNECTED (1992) [588 points, 21 votes, 3 first places]
17. THE ONLY RHYME THAT BITES '99 (1999) [603 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]
16. PRIMARY RHYMING (1990) [604 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]
15. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (ZERO GRAVITY MIX) (1990) [636 points, 39 votes, 2 first places]
14. SECOND CLASS RETURN TO DOTTINGHAM PLEASE (1983) [675 points, 50 votes, 8 first places]
13. THIS AIN'T NO FANTASY (1990) [712 points, 47 votes, 3 first places]

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

I think he's letting the Beatles have a crack at the big time first, what with that poll kicking off.

xp oops maybe I was wrong

brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link

here we go

Dear Projectionist (blueski), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

What is 'beatles'?

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

i'm reliably told they can fuck right off

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

Ah, Jump Grave Slacks, my favourite!

Rebekah Brooks Ate My Country (Doran), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

12. DANCE YOURSELF TO DEATH (MARLEY MIX) (1990) [721 points, 39 votes, 1 first place]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tSlgJoWPw

It's the actual fucking record! What are the odds eh???

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link

So did Jump Grave Slacks not make it?

There is power in an onion (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link

dammit i got so excited i missed off the bold tags

12. DANCE YOURSELF TO DEATH (MARLEY MIX) (1990) [721 points, 39 votes, 1 first place]

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link

That bloke looks nothing like Bob Marley

brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link

He didn't have a dog for starters.

brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link

That was possibly the least racist GIS for 'bob marley dog'

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link

Just a bit of fun, let's be cool

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link

Still time for Jump Grave Slacks (DJ Top Buzz Mix) to make the top five.

Rebekah Brooks Ate My Country (Doran), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link

I think you'll find that single was credited to the Soup Dragons and the rumours that Tunes was behind it were apocryphal

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link

History is written by the winners.

Rebekah Brooks Ate My Country (Doran), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link

GH: It was very pleasing to see Tunes release this heartfelt warning on the dangers of engaging in dancing to rhythm-dominated musics rather than contemplatively smoking a Petterøe's and gazing off into the Northern Lights to the sound of SUB: INSERT NAME OF CLASSICAL MUSICS MAN IN HERE.Why he chose to remix it with a bunch of samples from The Muppet's Christmas Carol I am at a loss to explain for.

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

Psych Spice Ant Legs?

Rebekah Brooks Ate My Country (Doran), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link

Featuring Junior Reid on "toasting".

Rebekah Brooks Ate My Country (Doran), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link

11. THEM GIRLS THEM GIRLS (1994) [791 points, 56 votes, 6 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQ8-U4UmOE

SB OK (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link


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