Category: Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren and the World’s Famous Supreme Team – Buffalo Gals (Special Stereo Scratch Mix) (UK 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1982

“Buffalo Gals” is a 1982 hip-hop single released by Malcolm McLaren and the World’s Famous Supreme Team, from McLaren’s 1983 album Duck Rock. The song is composed of extensive scratching with calls from square dancing. The music video prominently features the Rock Steady Crew.

While in New York City looking for a support act for Bow Wow Wow, McLaren got the idea for the song when he went to an outdoor concert (known as a “Block Party”) by Afrika Bambaataa and Universal Zulu Nation. This is where he was exposed to Hip-Hop for the first time and discovered the scratching technique he would use on this song. Most of the scratching and the beat of the song were composed by Trevor Horn.

In the liner notes for Duck Rock, McLaren wrote that this track was “recorded with the World’s Famous Supreme Team and Zulu singers backing them up with the words ‘she’s looking like a hobo.’ The performance by the Supreme Team may require some explaining, but suffice to say they are DJs from New York City who have developed a technique using record players as instruments, replacing the power chord of the guitar with the needle of a gramophone, moving it manually backward and forwards across the surface of a record. We call it scratching.”

Charisma Records were not initially keen on releasing the song but releasing after a strong positive response to the first broadcast of the track by DJ Kid Jensen.

The single peaked at #9 on the UK Singles Chart and #33 on the US Billboard Dance Chart.

SIDE A:
Buffalo Gals (Scratch) 3:42
Performed By – Malcolm McLaren And The World’s Famous Supreme Team**
Written-By –  Dudley*, McLaren*, Horn*

SIDE B:
Buffalo Gals 3:42
Performed By – Malcolm McLaren And The World’s Famous Supreme Team**
Written-By –  Dudley*, McLaren*, Horn*

Buffalo Gals (Trad. Square) 3:41
Performed By – Malcolm McLaren
Written-By – McLaren*, Trad.*

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1982 Buffalo Gals U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play #33

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Charisma ‎– MALC 12
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Electro, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Design – Nick Egan
Photography By – N. Matthews*, R. Beeche*
Producer – Trevor Horn

NOTES:
Mastered at TOWN HOUSE

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION BY:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
DAC/Phono Pre-amp:
Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning:
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans:
Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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Malcolm McLaren – Double Dutch (US 12″ Promo)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1983

A. Front

New 2015 Re-Rip!
Meticulously Remastered!
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Originally posted February, 2011

“Double Dutch” is a 1983 single by Malcolm McLaren. It is taken from his debut album Duck Rock. “Double Dutch” is the follow-up to his successful debut single, “Buffalo Gals”, and reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart, making it his highest-charting single release. The album version is a slight re-edit of the single, with part of the original middle eight moved to the end of the track.

Mbaqanga group The Boyoyo Boys took legal action against Mclaren over the similarity of “Double Dutch” with their own hit “Puleng”. After a lengthy legal battle in the UK the matter was settled out of court, with payment made to the South African copyright holders, songwriter Petrus Maneli and publisher Gallo Music, but Horn and Mclaren retained their songwriting credits.

SIDE A:
Double Dutch (Long Version) 8:23
Engineer – Gary Langan

SIDE B:
Hobo Scratch (She’s Looking Like A Hobo) 9:06

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1983 Double Dutch U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play #47

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Island Records – DMD 641
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Electro

CREDITS:
Producer –Producer – Trevor Horn
Written By – Malcolm McLaren , Trevor Horn

NOTES:
Special thanks to Jumpers Personified & D.D. Dynamites Double Dutch Teams.

Find the 12″ on DISCOGS

B. Back

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck 
Phono Pre-amp:
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Tube:
Tung-Sol 12AX7ECC803-S Gold Electron Tube
Soundcard:
ESI Juli@
Record Cleaning:
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans:
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi