James Bratton and Joel Washington are probably best known for their garage and New Jersey scene house of the late eighties, but thats sort of outside of my wheelhouse and I haven't really heard much of what they did later in their careers. I know them for their first project, Illusion Of A Band, an electro funk act that put out a couple of records in 1985, which had a definite proto house sound.
'Work Me' is the one Illusion Of A Band cut that I own, and I don't own the 12" with the club mix on, but the 7" I have does have an instrumental, which the 12" doesn't. So I tell myself its better.
Illusion Of A Band - Work Me (Vocal)
Illusion Of A Band - Work Me (Instrumental)
A very agressive noise filter or a transcoded mp3?
ReplyDeleteThere is a sub 20hz filter, due to rumble caused by the shape of the record, but you shouldn't be able to hear it. No transcoding. I think the fidelity is more likely due to it being a fucked up old 45 that spent 30 years squashed vertically.
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