Charts

Rip It Up, Issue 213, 1 May 1995, Page 28

Charts

TRUETONE RECORDS. St Lukes

Top 20 Hip Hop 12” 1 Naughty By Nature The Craziest (Tommy Boy)

2 Notorious Big Big Poppa (Bad Boy) 3 D& D All Stars I 2 Pass It (Buck Wild) 4 Dark Skinned Assassin Lock Shit Down (Eternity) 5 Slick Rick Sittin' In My Car (Def Jam) 6 Channel Live Mad Izm (Capitol) 7 Heather B All Glocks Down (Pendulum) 8 Dredfoxx Gettin' Down (Pow Wow) 9 Roots Silent Treatment (Geffen) 10 Punishers Run (Nexx Level) 11 Milkbone Keep It On The Real (Capitol) 12 Masta Ace Inc Ride (Capitol) 13 Redman Can't Wait (Def Jam) 14 Method Man Release Yo Se/f (Def Jam) 15 Total Can't You See (Tommy Boy) 16 Soundtrack New Jersey Drive #2 EP (Tommy Boy) 17 Da Brat & Notorious Big Da B Side (Crib) 18 Brand Nubian Hold On (Elektra) 19 Peter Presta Unreel Record Part II (Max'n) 20 DJ Quik Safe & Sound (Profile)

Top 10 Dance/Swing 12” 1 Montel Jordan This Is How We Do It (Def Jam) 2 Big Shrug Treat You Better (Chrysalis) 3 Andru Donalds Mishale (Capitol) > 4 . Blackstreet Joy (Interscope) 5 Otara Millionaires Club We R The OMC (Volition) 6 Sounds Of Blackness I’m Going All The Way (Perspective) 7 Miss Jones Where I Wanna Be Boy (Step Sun) " ' ” 8 Adina Howard Freak Like Me (East West) 9 Rappin 4 Tay I'll Be Around (Capitol) - ?. 10 Diana King Shy Guy (Sony) ~ Truetone Records, St Lukes (09) 846 1555 95bFM BEATS PER MINUTE Thursdays 9pm-ll 1 DJ Sneak The Polyester (US Henry Street 12") •’ ■ ' Disco sampling madness from Chicago on the label that brought you ‘The Bomb'. 2 Towa Tei- Technova (Wink Mix) (US Elektra 12”) ' ~ Former Deee-Lite member goes jazzy and deep. 3 The Bladed Posse EP (US Freeze 12 ) Roc’n’Kato’s funky sample-house with attitude. , x 4 The Pasadenas Round & Round (UK Solor 12’) . ■ ' . ' Sweet soul given the classic Masters At Work jazz-house edge • .' • ' 5 African Dream Young & Free (US Eightball 12”) . Sexy, grinding, but very deep extended house grooves . • - ■ 6 Lou2 Freaky (US Strictly Rhythm 12") Dark, acidic and pure genius from Little Louie Vega and Lil’ Louis. ; - \ ' 7 200 Sheep The Hard Times March (UK Hard Times 12’) Vega and Gonzalez develop ‘The Bomb’. concept, this time with no Chicago samples. ; 8 Jon Cuttier &DJ Romain The Hard & \ Dark EP (US Emotive 12”) - Four tracks of the coolest, moodiest, darkest house. . , ' . ' . . •

9 800 Williams EP (US Relief 12") Creeping and unpredictable techno for purists, from Chicago’s #1 label. 10 Kenlou Hillbily Song/Moonshine (US MAW 12”) Masters At Work on a missionwith the first release on their own label, the sound they’re now calling avant-soul. 11 Incognito Everyday (UK Talking Loud 12”) Doublepack of mixes from Roger Sanchez in a mellow and very funky groove. 12 Various Future Sound Of New York (US Emotive LP/CD) Essential and hard to get trax from Junior Vasquez’s legendary Sound Factory, mixed on CD by Junior himself. 13 Ashley Beedle Roots Revolution EP (UK Narcotic 12”) Four amazing retro tracks in a disco-philly-house merge from one of the men of the

moment. 14 Mae 1 Sweet Feeling (US Mo’ Hop 12”) Deep deep deep and funky grooves from this hard to get label. 15 Barry White Come On (Remixes) (US A&M 12”) The remixes from this album have been bloody amazing, this time from NYCs Bobby D’Ambrosio.