Enzed Grooves

Rip It Up, Issue 149, 1 December 1989, Page 39

Enzed Grooves

KNIGHTSHADE : Last Night in the City : This late night, highway groove number from NZ's premier hard rockers has been built for radio by imported producer Jim Faraci. Agood job he has done too, this record should be massive on the airwaves. But the guys win the Don’t Give Anything Away Award for most light weight B-side, though the competition is tough this month with Ryan Monga weighingin - . with sampled home appliances on ‘Time Door’, Chicago Smokeshop brushing off a fast blues standard and Double J and Twice rattle and hum their flip. But let us getback to the A-Sides while singles are still on vinyl and music has two sides. . ' CHICAGO SMOKESHOP Another Man (Pagan) To review singles | string them together on atape and this month the tape is great pop radio programming. This neat song ‘Another Man'is the co-highlight (with Ardijah), it's cool, Darren Watson's singing is smooth and like classic English R&B (Spencer Davis) ittranscends its roots and Papa ends up with a brand new bag — his very own bag. A giant step for Chicago Smokeshop and great for summer radio. DOUBLEJ & TWICETHET. Seven Days (Definitiv) The lads have found another Kiwi pop song and made another rap sandwich. This one was written by Cactus singer Stanley Manthyng when he was in Big Explosion. The Double J and Twice the T B-sides tell you more about the guys than their club sandwich singles— there you get the nitty gritty energy, improvisation, the human beat box and that's all, folks.

ARDUJAH Take Me (WEA) Betty-Anne could sing the Neighbourstheme and I'd think it was corker. Take Me'is a sleeper groove buta nice one. Cool production, though I'dlove to hear Ardijah produced by a heavy weight dance floor dude who can make a song jump out and hit the listener a decisive blow. Then Ardijah will conquer the world. FANCLUB INeed Love (CBS) ; This ditty didn’timpress at first as Jody Watley has retreaded her ‘Real Love'/ ‘New Love' line twice already. But exposure has made the groove grow stronger and this is the finext so far from Fan Club. Ace imported producer Mark

Berry hasfound an edgein Aishah’s vocal and it's spiced with sax and various percussion to make a very pleasant dance single. Export quality. MURRAY CAMMICK UPPERHUTT POSSE Do It Like This (Southside) 7“ New Zealand isn't well-known for making good dance records. There's been Ardijah and my personal favourite, Il Need Your Love’ by Golden Harvest. The Posse beat them all with this great pop song. lt sounds like pop music, the beat keeps it going on, the KC ‘Boogie Shoes' sample has the hook. And the Posse have the rap under full control, listen to the words for some enlightenment. Don‘t do it this way, no, do it like this. This should go

through the roof. : D-FACTION Motivation / Miss U (Southside) 71l Parttwo of the new Southside label, and this one has its roots firmly in funky nightclub bands of South Auckland. - Simon Lynch and Tony Nogotautama have been in a few club bands (including Ardijah) and are partial to that keyboard riff you hearin Prince records. In fact‘Motivation” when heard live sounds very Prince-like, nota bad thing. | prefer the other cut, ‘Miss U’, one of those ballads Atlantic Starr might do. It's nice. Good to see that we are going to have some good local funk coming from the Southside collection.

KERRY BUCHANAN