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Andre Cymone
Survivin' In The 80's - Expanded Edition
CD $13.99
Release Date:
January 2012
Nº of Discs:
1
Catalogue Nº
FTG-274
Label:
Funkytowngrooves USA
Tracklisting
| 1. Survivin' In The 80's | |
| 2. M.O.T.F. | |
| 3. Make Me Wanna Dance | |
| 4. Lovedog | |
| 5. Body Thang | |
| 6. Stay | |
| 7. What Are We Doing Here | |
| 8. Don't Let The Future (Come Down On You) | |
| 9. Survivin' In the 80's - 12" Version | |
| 10. Survivin' in The 80's - Instrumental Version | |
| 11. Make Me Wanna Dance - Instrumental Version | |
| 12. Make Me Wanna Dance - Special Version |
Item Description
IN STOCK
We are delighted to announce the first ever expanded CD of Andre Cymone's 1983 album Survivin' In The 80's.
Expanded with 4 bonus tracks and the release will be remastered from the original tapes.
Andre Cymone’s sophomore album for Columbia Records in 1983, “Survivin’ In The 80’s”, pretty much picked up where his 1982 debut, the excellent “Livin’ In The New Wave” left off. That would be the new wave textures, punk rockish vibes, and more futuristic venturing into the cosmic spheres of our funkentelechy minds, that had us dancing it up at the Ritz Club. The various KORG Polyphonic Synthesizers, Simmons Electronic SDS8 Drum Kits, Oberheim DMX Drum Machines, Mini-Moog’s, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Polyphonic synths, Yamaha’s CS-80 synths, Oberheim OB-xa Polyphonic synths, I’m sure played a whole, or some part in the making of this record. You can’t help but to entrench yourself in this pre-techno, mind bending Space Funk excursion, as directed by Andre Cymone.
Of course, the new emerging MIDI technology of the day played it’s enormous part in the creation of this extremely pre-Pro Tools recorded album. I’m talking 2 inch analog Ampex tape, Studer 2 inch master recorder, 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch mixdown ATR’s, and metal editing splicing blocks, metronomes, and Yamaha NS-10 near field monitoring systems, you name it, it’s in here. You cannot “Survive” in the recording world in 1983 without those bare essentials. Let’s explore some of the Ronald Reagan, Cold War, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, A Team, Rocky III era sounds that made up the “New Wave”, short lived, phenom.
