#no wave funk

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David Byrne, Ohio 1983 foto por Peter Anderson

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The Clash in a New York taxicab , 1982 . 

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David Bowie – Modern Love

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(via James Chance, No Wave and Punk-Funk Pioneer, Dies at 71 - The New York Times)

James Chance, the singer, saxophonist and composer who melded punk, funk and free jazz into bristling dance music as the leader of the Contortions, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 71.

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Johnny Rotten and Siouxsie Sioux

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Tracklist:

Guns In The Sky • New Sensation • Devil Inside • Need You Tonight • Mediate • The Loved One • Wild Life • Never Tear Us Apart • Mystify • Kick • Calling All Nations • Tiny Daggers

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Few bands can claim a place in five different musical histories - hip hop, new wave, house music, funk & punk. ESG, here captured at Tier 3, NYC in 1980, definitely hold such a unique place.

“When Mrs Scroggins bought her teenage daughters – Renee, Valerie, Deborah and Marie – musical instruments in the mid-’70s, all she was doing was trying to keep them off the streets of the South Bronx. She had no idea she’d just created one of the most exciting and influential bands to come out of the music scene of ’80s New York. ESG -short for Emerald, Sapphire and Gold- distilled the black and Hispanic sounds of the city into a tight, stripped-down new genre that some people called ‘punk-funk’.”

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The sisters, after the addition of their friend Tito on percussion, the band started taking part in talent shows in 1978, supported The Clash & Grandmaster Flash, played at NYC’s hottest venues, like Danceteria or Paradise Garage and ended up in Manchester, where they played the opening night of the fabled Hacienda after signing with Tony Wilson’s Factory Records, who caught them performing at Hurrah in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1981.

Their debut EP under the same name was recorded 3 days after they flew over from NY, produced by the legendary Mancunian producer Martin Hannett (whose portfolio included Joy Division, the Durutti Column, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, New Order, OMD & Happy Mondays). Hannett had three minutes left on the master tape, so he had the band record "UFO”, which eventually became one of the most sampled songs in hip-hop history, since it has been sampled over 500 times by just about every hip hop producer going.

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Lizzy Mercier Descloux

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Waves – Waves (1980)

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David Byrne, Ohio 1983 foto por Peter Anderson

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The Clash performing live at the Vorst Nationaal , Forest , Brussels-Capital Region , Belgium , 1979 .

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David Byrne in Musician, September 1983. Photo by Deborah Feingold.

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Just finished Love In The Big City and I don’t know, it’s a sad story but I don’t feel crushed by it nor wanted a pretty little bow in the form of a “happy ending” for it.

I didn’t read the book so I’m basing on the show only: the ending was fitting. Though they could’ve explored a few things better, some nice ideas that were not fully fleshed out in the final episodes.

Now, the production value here? Whew, it leaves an impression, and so does the acting, role of a lifetime for Yoonsu — threw himself in this role, his Young feels authentic, real, he brings his A game and uses it to the max.

Personally, an important part of the story was jarring for the wrong reasons (to me). Everything surrounding Young’s status as HIV-positive left me shocked by the way they deal with it in South Korea (assuming the show portrays accurately), because from where I’m from it’s not handled that way at all, with patients having access to meds that lower the viral load to undetectable levels and alternative for the partners to prevent infection through sex, all of that for free, I was surprised seeing them dealing with his condition that way. Cultural difference that really made a difference for me here. Young and Gyu ho would hardly have the problems they did in the show with the right medical counseling.

Other than that I thought it was lovely show, albeit melancholic and moody — it’s like the sad gay cousin of Sex and the City. It’s witty, sexy, well acted and barely avoiding depression.

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Siouxsie sioux at Blondie's party, at Notre Dame Hall in 1977. Credit to Ray Stevenson