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#86
Jun.
‘06
RockDownBaby evolved
from
one woman in the studio for an afternoon of experimental fun into a
musical force too hot
to stop. Subsequent studio time finally gave forth Love
& Sex & Rock & Roll. Containing every
influence RockDownBaby has held
dear to her heart since
music found its way into her blood stream, this CD gains its love from
Mid 60s soul and
funk, its sex from vocals too enticing to turn away from, its rock from
the late 70s New
Wave/early electronica movement, and its roll from the mid 70s disco
dance tracks. Throw
in a hefty dose of garage rock, a dash of Phil Spector girl groups, and
a slice of CBGBs,
and then just maybe you might understand, but you don’t need
to understand it to get
it, just continue listening and your body and soul will take control.
Opening with a rockin’ beat, an
ultra New Wavy distorted guitar, and a Talking
Heads African style rhythm funk, Test Drive
beckons us to “Take me for a test
drive…I’m your kind of ride.” RockDownBaby’s
vocals draw us in to the disjointed, but beautiful dance-silly beat to
which we can’t
say no. It’s our kind of ride all right. We are hooked, bring
it on, the libido is
intrigued with this groovin’ dance floor rock.
TV
Dog
brings Devo back with a vengeance - inviting a Kate Bush/Lene Lovich
aire, it transcends
early techno by going ultra-retro, causing us to re-fall in love with
that scene.
It’s the B-52’s meet Gary Numan and the Tubeway
Army. Baby, Baby
(I’m Wondering) slows it down with a
sultry flame smoking up the get down mid
70’s funk. It’s like Blondie forced through a
Supremes record at ½ speed, and
making Prince oogle. This time it’s RockDownBaby’s
sexually magnetic vocals that steal the show from the techno beat bliss
as we shuffle our
feet to this subtle hot overture of lust.
But when RockDownBaby’s
theme song, I Am Your RockDownBaby,
bursts forth from
the middle of this disc, watch out, because it blows away every real
disco riff that was
worth it’s weight in funk gold – before corporate
meddling created disco as a
marketable commodity – before respectable funk was watered
down and sold to the
masses – before good funk/disco artists were swallowed whole
by every one-off,
wannabe, has-been the record labels could sign, throw in the studio,
and squeeze just
enough life out of them to turn a profit – quality of the
music be damned, we can
sell this – I
Am Your RockDownBaby has already taken
it’s place along side of The Commodores Brick House as one of
this reviewer’s
favorite Ultimate Disco tunes, and that comes from someone who hates
disco with a passion,
but can and will recognize and enjoy a damn fine piece of musical
bliss. OK, OK, OK.
Riding atop this mesh of uncontrollable
musical synthesis is the root of RockDownBaby,
taken straight from the title and
every generation who has proclaimed Rock & Roll as their
savior. It’s the Sex of
the Love & Sex that gives Love
& Sex &
Rock & Roll its purity. Whether it’s the
beboppin sex of Soul
Connection’s homage to true love,
“I’m not jealous of any other
girls / Because they ain’t got what I’ve
got…no,” or the Peter
Gunn inspired film noir style backbeat and soundscapes of Spy On You
that brings out the Bad/Good Girl in all of us, it is the innuendo
dripping so deep within
the F/X board work that boggles the mind (hard to remember this is one
woman behind the
boards, hell, behind everything here), as it slides into your head and
doesn’t let up
until…
I
Feel
My Sex. Here RockDownBaby
takes what Berlin
did with Sex (I’m A…) and does it even better 25
years later. Yes, Love & Sex
& Rock & Roll. Say it
loud, say it proud. RockDownBaby blows
the
doors off music in the 21st century. Using her
vocals in a puerile style too
intense to ignore, RockDownBaby’s
manifestation of the innocence lost and the paradise found within the
Shangri-la of the
studio and the manipulation of multiple musical genres of the past 3
decades sets a new
standard for many to contemplate while those in the know realize that
the king is
dead…
Long live the Queen.
All hail Queen RockDownBaby.
OK, OK, OK.
Love
& Sex & Rock & Roll by
RockDownBaby
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