Tapes

by The Rapture

Overview

Enjoyment of the Rapture's Tapes necessitates unfamiliarity with the majority of its contents, indifference to acute sequencing and, naturally, deep interest in what the band views as classic and fresh. The set, containing 22 tracks in 74 minutes, flits across several forms of dance music -- funk, disco, go-go, house, techno, hip-hop, disco revivalism -- often to a jarring extent, indeed sounding like it was selected by committee. The tougher transitions between ill-fitting tracks are masked with fade-outs and drastic bottom elimination through EQ'ing, and some tracks that do match up rhythmically -- Richie Havens' coarse cover of Lamont Dozier's "Going Back to My Roots" and Galaxy 2 Galaxy's gleaming "Afros, ARPs, and Minimoogs" being the prime pair -- sometimes present clashing moods and tones. Out of the newer tracks, the strongarming ardkore hip-house of Dances with White Girls' "Everybody's Got to Make a Living," released on the Rapture's own Throne of Blood label, wins out.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/24/2008
Label:	K7
UPC:	0730003722929
catalogNumber:	37229
Rank:	188166

Tracks

1. Earthquake Shake
2. Daytona 500
3. The Word
4. Holy Ghost
5. Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll
6. Tee's Happy
7. I'm an Indian Too
8. Disco Circus
9. Fantasy Lines
10. Club Soda
11. The Passion
12. Flowerz
13. Say U Will
14. Where's Jason's K
15. Township Funk
16. Cpstyre
17. Everybody's Got to Make a Living
18. Why Not?!
19. Get Get Down
20. Austin's Groove
21. Going Back to My Roots
22. Afro Arps and Minimoogs

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Rapture   Primary Artist,DJ

Technical Credits

Irving Berlin   Composer
Vaughan Mason   Composer
James Banks   Composer
Lamont Dozier   Composer
Norman Whitfield   Composer
Eddie Marion   Composer
Armand Van Helden   Composer
Roland Clark   Composer
Thomas Bangalter   Composer
Maurice Fulton   Composer
Henderson Thigpen   Composer
Gregory Bufford   Composer
Darshan Jesrani   Composer
Danny Balis   Composer
Donk Boys   Composer
Jerome Bell   Composer