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Title: Bicycle Day Boogaloo
Release date: 21 February, 2006
Record label: It's Bananas
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Tracklisting
1. Floating Devils Are The Ones To Look Out For
2. Song For Hank
3. Mmm Hmm
4. Whatever You Say
5. The Art of Moving
6. Bassism
7. Establishing The Precedent
8. It’s a Thin Line
9. Soundcheck
10. A Certain Way With Things
11. What’s Come Over Me
12. Don’t Stop Now
13. Looking Ahead
14. As I Was Saying
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When my peoples in Snap! said “rhythm is a dancer”, my boy Shakeyface was clearly listening from deep inside Shakey Manor, below the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York, USA. How do I know he was listening? I’m assuming, based on the fact that the kid’s rhythms are bad (meaning good).
Beat-makers are a-dime-a-dozen, so when one taps into that universal marrow flow of rhythm and melody, it’s cause for celebration. Bicycle Day Boogaloo has the distinct sound of a celebration, but as is the case with most celebrations, someone’s girlfriend is usually crying in the bathroom and some guy is usually trying to work up the nerve to ask the pretty girl in the middle of the room out. You can hear all of this.
“The Art Of Moving” is the sound of people getting drunk to the tune of a freaky electro vamp. “Mmm Hmm” is all tweaked flamenco and contemplative stomp. “Establishing The Precedent” is a rainy-day Cadillac crawl. “Don’t Stop Now” is restrained New Orleans bounce balladry. That’s not even half the album, so what do you call it?
The man behind the program is a hunk of young hustle who not only tweaks the knobs, plays the instruments and remixes other peoples jewels (like UNKLE), or being remixed (by Frosty + Daedelus as Adventure Time), but has also worked with political action group Downtown For Democracy to work against the re-election of your favorite shrubbery-surnamed commander-in-chief. See the two anti-war tracks included on this album “A Certain Way With Things” and “What’s Come Over Me” for a better idea of where Shakeyface’s heart is at.
When he’s not pounding the American landscape fighting the good fight, he’s pounding it playing the good records. A seasoned DJ with the right seasonings to spice up the party, you can find Shakey in the booth on the ones and twos, and perhaps you have found him, DJing alongside the likes of Dangermouse, Prefuse 73, Hollertronix, Funkstorung and others.
What does Bicycle Day Boogaloo mean anyway? Have a listen and find out.
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