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Death Comet Crew returns into the middle of an African street taxi jam.??Shimmering traffic moves slowly ahead, shadows replacing shadows across the asphalt. ?There is smoke in the sky and in the street.?Basslines pulse and weave through the jam.??[Waves of heat through crack in window seen through infrared heat-vision from overhead.]??Running down the left field of view, chrome flickers in slo-mo.?License numbers crawl.?A persistent scratching takes hold of the car’s horn, indicators on perpetual loop. ?Through the haze, lightning… Galacticoast Mosi. ??Up the well, the half dark space station hangs in lower orbit.? Hybridized chimes ricochet past the main hall’s shuttered shop fronts.?Ricochets turn to echoes, like misplaced dimensions.?7-4-3-1.? The call and response of radio comms.?Acrophonics re-interpreted by a hieroglyphic being. ??Re-membered trajectories.??Re-entry. Death Comet Crew history:? ?1984 — started as Arena Sex Death, then Death Star Crew, ultimately Death Comet Crew. Went on to record ‘Exterior Street’ and ‘At the Marble Bar’ for the Beggars Banquet EP. The group was joined by MC The Rammellzee.?2003 — Death Comet Crew reissued DCC America on Troubleman.?2005 — group reforms and begins playing out again: Venice Bienalle, Serralves Foundation Porto, Berlin, The Worm Rotterdam, Ghent, Toulouse, Tokyo Club Unit, Osaka, CMJ.?2013 — EP of new material on Citinite, followed by an album on Diagonal Records. Members:??Stuart Argabright — also in Ike Yard and Black Rain?Michael Diekmann — also in Ike Yard?Shinichi Shimokawa — also in Black Rain?DJ High Priest aka Nick Taylor — from Gray (the band which included Michael Holman and Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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Give It To Me Hot is a 4-track EP that pays tribute to one of the hottest, raunchiest (but sadly short-lived) funk/punk groups from the early 80s, Sexual Harrassment. Sexual Harrassment was started by radio DJ Lynn Tolliver whilst he was working at MCA Records, and the Cleveland-based group had a gold single on the Heat/Montage label. Their rarer 6-track album from 1983 has become a collector’s item. To do their tracks justice, we asked modern day artists who are synonymous with a sex-driven funk attitude to either cover or reinterpret the originals. LA-based vocalist Lil’ Kenny starts us off with a sweat-inducing rendition of ‘You Are My Sexual Connection’. Backed by limit-pushing production from modern funketeer Dâm-Funk, the powerful bassline, searing rides and deep-throated vocals are as honest and uncompromising as we could have hoped for. Sweat.X’s interpretation of Sexual Harrassment’s most famous track, ‘I Need A Freak’, follows. Spoek Mathambo and Markus Wormstorm’s compulsively dark vision, with its broody, frustrated funk sound, riffs on themes of unsated desire and pleasure-pain. Jimmy Edgar contributes a backing track unlike anything he has ever done before for little known gem, ‘Exercise Your Ass Off’. Combined with the energising vocals from G.Rizo, the track reminds us of the 70s New York alt music scene whilst simultaneously feeling like the beginning of the next wave. Finally Robert O’Dell rides in with his unique style for ‘If I Gave You A Party’. Co-produced by Jeppe Loverman, this version is by turns unsettling and thrilling and has proved to be the most popular on the EP amongst DJs we promoed the tracks to. It’s a fine way to close an EP that we hope stays true to the candid, fun and untempered spirit of the originals.

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WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: gpsr@wordandsound.net