Re: Re: BTB?

Mark Conklin (mbconkli@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu)
Fri, 17 May 1996 09:17:14 -0500


At 02:05 PM 5/17/96 GMT, you wrote:
>If my shoddy memory serves me correctly, BTB really made it big on the club
>scene in the mid-80's with their remix of Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid in Full"
>which includes that legendary Ofra Haza vocal sample. After that classic
>track, I'd sorta lost track of them...probably owing to a lapse in an equally
>phat follow-up product by BTB -- until now?? I haven't heard the new album.
>Is it any good?

That was actually Coldcut, not BTB. BTB biggest hit in the days was "Beat
Dis" off of Enter The Dragon (Japanese release that had a cover that looked
like the comic book "The Watchmen". They (or rather he - Tim Simeon) have
put out a couple of albums since that time. I think "Clear" is his first US
domestic release. They have all been outstanding releases.

Both Coldcut and BTB got kinda big around the same time and were often
lumped in the same category as S'Express, World Domination Enterprises,
Westworld, and even PWEI (Box Frenzy era).

MC