Anyone heard this? I found it through the WFMU blog and it's been killing me all week:
wikipedia Wrote:
In 1971 Vangarde (Daniel Bangalter, father of Thomas Bangalter, who is best known as a member of the electronic music duo Daft Punk) and Kluger released the cult LP Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki as the Yamasuki Singers, a pseudo-Japanese concept album of pop songs, described on the sleeve of its CD reissue as "a fuzzed-out-educational-multi-cultural psych-rock-opera.... proto-psychedelic hip-hop with overweight drum beats and basslines", which much later became a highly sought-after source of bass and drum breaks. The song "Aieaoa" on the album was later recorded, as "Aie a Mwana", first by Black Blood and then by Bananarama, becoming the first UK hit for the latter group.
this song has been making my commute better all damn week:
It is by far the most energetic song on the album, but there are some nice moments throughout the rest of the album, in a fuzzy AM sunshine sort of way...
check it out
hereRIYL:
Jesus Christ Superstar, fake Japanese, 1970s Gogol Bordello