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Rip It Up, Issue 175, 1 February 1992, Page 29

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DIGITAL UNDERGROUND Kiss You Back (Tommy Boy) 12” Single This is great! If's pretty much a total P-Funk rip off, but who cares. If's funky as hell, totally catchy and kind of smutty, which is everything a great single should be. Actually, its not a P-Funk steal as it has a better drum sound. | played this three fimes in a row and still liked it, so | suppose that makes it this month's favourite. SUGARCUBES Hit (One Little Indian) 12” Single And it probably will be. A very poppy offering. Sort of danceable, jangly and movie theme-ish all at once. That woman singer still sounds like Siouxsie meetfs Abba though and | can't forgive anyone whose first record was heavy on the elves and fairies imagery. ; GUY , Do Me Right ' : (MCA) 12” Single JODY WATLEY | Want You (MCA) 12" Single _ Swingbeat never went away, it just hid for a while, and Guy always were the masters of the genre. This is cool on a simple, clever and funky level, I'd shake my booty to ‘Do Me Right’ and feel fine about it. Jody is a bit more adult in her demographics, she’s gone for a smooth and sophisticated feel that | find a bit foo smooth. if | had a BMW, this is the sort of thing I'd play in it while cruising at night. : MOODSWINGS Spiritual High (Arista) 12” Single Despite often sneering at British house, | do like the more perverse moments of it, particularly the Ambient stuff. Covering the likes of the Eagles was cool, but it seemed to peak with the Pink Floyd songs that were true brillance. Now someone has taken it a step further and done Jon and Vangelis! The A-side features Chrissie Hynde, but | never made it past the flip which is a huge instrumental with all the obligatory orchestral bits and Martin Luther King samples. Cheesey sure, but great all the same:

KEITH SWEAT - Keep It Comin’ (Elektra) Cassingle _ Keith takes a funky beat, a little bit of a rap along with his own smooth style, mixes it all up and out comes another one of those songs that are great for the BMW and / or jacuzzi. A very suave single indeed. JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART Visions Of You (East West) CD Single Best track from Mr Wobble's album with a real big bass mixed with a sort of

World music sound and Sinead O’Connor adding some sweetness to the vocals. The damn thing is 30-odd minutes long, so there must be a version you like somewhere and Adrian Sherwood (who is popular with your hipsters nowadays) does one mix. LL.COOL)J Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf? (Columbia) CD Single L.L. is definitely overdue for some sort of critical reappraisal, and this proves it. The fitle frack is from a compilation of Disney stuff and is

‘wacky’, but it's followed up by ‘I Need A Beat’ and ‘| Can't Live Without My Radio’ which all these years on still sound harder than chinese arithmetic and show exactly how much L.L. means to rap. ROBERT OWEN I'll Be Your Friend (Perfecto) 12” Single Supposedly one of the finest deep house records of late, according the experts, although on the first couple of listens it seems they went so deep they forgot the melody. It all becomes quite hypnotic after a while though, which is

what | suppose these records are meant to do. AEROSMITH : Sweet Emotion (Columbia) CD Single Is it still cool fo like these guys? | hope so, cause they're still cool as it gets. This rather classic slice of the original R'nß rock band is from a forthcoming 52 song box set which is more interesting than anything | could tell you about Aerosmith. | imagine it will fast become an essential item.

KIRK GEE