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Radio THITH #2. 30 mins of Maximum Mutant Rn’B


The Hundred In The Hands – 30 Min Mixtape by thehundredinthehands
1. POM POM: #4
2. Holy Ghost!: I WIll come Back
3. Eddie Kendricks: Keep On Truckin’
4. Ike & TIna: I Wanna Jump
5. Jackson 5: Hum Along and Dance
6. Sam The Sham: Wooly Bully
7. Small Faces: C’mon Children
8. Taleb Kweli: Just To Get By
9. Soul Position: Things Go Better

1. POM POM: #4
Pom Pom is an anonymous minimal techno project presumed to be out of Berlin… ?… we think. We don’t know but we first wrote about them here: http://thehundredinthehands.com/pom-pom-32/
We were listening to this a lot when we wrote the record. And you can kind of here the influence on some of the more dark and sparse moments in Young Aren’t Young and Killing It.

2. Holy Ghost!: I WIll come Back
Holy Ghost are our neighbors and by strange twists of fate we were in and out of two studios just before and after them while making our record. Everything we heard from them got us going and we stalked them into doing an “In The Studio” feature for us.


3. Eddie Kendricks: Keep On Truckin’
Tom Moulton is the godfather of the remix. His production pushed simple songs well beyond the pop into absolute floor stompers. Avant pop for sure. Love the xylophone/bells/whatever that is on this. Massive track, just seems to grow fiercer as it goes. And… are you going to argue with a man with a buckle like that? No. No, you’re not.

4. Ike & TIna: I Wanna Jump
Yeah, Tina rules. End of story. And if you don’t know, now you know. And okay, Ike… Ike was a ginormous asshole, but he also played on arguably the first proper rock’nroll songs ever and his guitar here kills it… but, no, really it’s Tina, let’s be honest.

5. Jackson 5: Hum Along and Dance
It’s the Jacksons at their most insane and one of the legendary break beats. Title says it all.

6. Sam The Sham: Wooly Bully
Sam is more punk than you. All there is to it.

7. Small Faces: C’mon Children
Small Faces were vicious and this track their most vicious. The guitar is so huge, no wave a decade and ½ early and just nutso. It’s from ’65 and you can just about see the parents running from the room. For a generation that still had memories of the war, this sound must have been horrific. C’mon children indeed.

8. Taleb Kweli: Just To Get By
Impeccable flow and lyrics. “I let them know we missin you, the love is unconditional/Even when the condition is critical/when the livin’ is miserable/Your position is pivotal, I ain’t bullshittin you/Now, why would I lie? Just to get by?”

9. Soul Position: Things Go Better
This record was kind of slept on but every time we play it out someone asks about it. That orchestra sample is so intense and the way it builds to the end with the old soul style harmony is amazing. Plus it seems like one of the most genuine descriptions of making music for all the right reasons I can think of. Plus, what an awesome record cover.

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