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The Rapture
Tapes
Release Date: 2008 09 29
Label: K7
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Enjoyment of the Rapture's Tapes necessitates unfamiliarity with the majority of its contents, indifference to acute sequencing and, naturally, deep interest in what the band views as classic and fresh. The set, containing 22 tracks in 74 minutes, flits across several forms of dance music -- funk, disco, go-go, house, techno, hip-hop, disco revivalism -- often to a jarring extent, indeed sounding like it was selected by committee. The tougher transitions between ill-fitting tracks are masked with fade-outs and drastic bottom elimination through EQ'ing, and some tracks that do match up rhythmically -- Richie Havens' coarse cover of Lamont Dozier's "Going Back to My Roots" and Galaxy 2 Galaxy's gleaming "Afros, ARPs, and Minimoogs" being the prime pair -- sometimes present clashing moods and tones. Out of the newer tracks, the strongarming ardkore hip-house of Dances with White Girls' "Everybody's Got to Make a Living," released on the Rapture's own Throne of Blood label, wins out. Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Earthquake Shake	Harris, Whitfield	:32
2	Daytona 500	Smith, James, Doles, Diggs, Hill	3:01
3	Word	Smith, Strong, Harris, Baker, Powell, Watrkins, Fergenbaum	3:19
4	Holy Ghost	Thigpen, Marion, Banks	3:34
5	Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll	Mason	3:30
6	Tee's Happy	Baker, Carbone, Presto	3:04
7	I'm an Indian Too	Berlin	2:45
8	Disco Circus	Blanc, Pewzner	2:21
9	Fantasy Lines	Jesrani, Balis	2:46
10	Club Soda	Bangalter	2:36
11	Passion [Phonique Mix Down]	Saussac	4:59
12	Flowerz	Clark, VanHelden	3:37
13	Say U Will	Jones	3:03
14	Where's Jason's K	Fulton	4:42
15	Township Funk	Maswanganyi	2:57
16	Cpstyre	Abrahamsson, Donk Boys, Jaldemark	1:31
17	Everybody's Got to Make a Living	Dances With White Girls	4:53
18	Why Not?!	Flügel, Wuttke	1:29
19	Get Get Down [Extended Mix]	Johnson	4:17
20	Austin's Groove	Scaravilli	3:17
21	Going Back to My Roots	Dozier	5:02
22	Afro Arps and Minimoogs	Mitchell, Banks	6:22

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