The Funky Worm – Hustle! (To The Music…) (US 2 x 12″ Promo)
Posted by DjPaulT on 29th September 2010
BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1988
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The Funky Worm was a British dance music studio project, assembled by a record producer, Mark Brydon. The group took its name from the hit Ohio Players song, “Funky Worm”.
The group also contained saxophonist Sim Lister. Their track “Hustle! (To the Music…)” went to #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1988. Original band founders DJs Parrot and Ping Pong (Carl Munson), were joined by the singer (now actress) Julie Stewart and were signed by WEA, before reaching #13 in the UK Singles Chart with “Hustle! (To the Music)…”
VINYL GRADE:
Cover: Near Mint
Vinyl: Near Mint
SIDE A:
Hustle! (To The Music…) (Postdora Mix) 7:32
Hustle! (To The Music…) (The Beat Is The Lawn) 2:57
SIDE B:
Hustle! (To The Music…) (Predora Mix – Club Mix) 5:08
Hustle! (To The Music…) (Freestyle Sax Mix) 4:16
SIDE C:
Hustle! (To The Music…) (T-Coy Mix – Manchester) 6:18
Remix – T-Coy
Hustle! (To The Music…) (Funky Fon Force Mix – Sheffield) 4:42
Remix – Fon Force
SIDE D:
Hustle! (To The Music…) (Graeme Park Mix – Nottingham) 5:00
RELEASE/PRODUCTION INFORMATION:
Label: Atlantic
Catalog#: DMD 1251
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12″, Promo
Country: US
Released: 1988
Genre: Electronic
Style: Acid House, House
Artwork By [Sleeve Design & Artworm] – Designers Republic, The
Edited By, Mixed By, Producer – Mark Brydon
Saxophone – Sim Lister
Written By – Carl Munson , Julie Stewart , Mark Brydon , Parrot , Thomas
NOTES:
Produced for the Fon Force
Recorded at Fon Studios, Sheffield 1988
This record is dedicated to the Brothers & Sisters of The Jive Turkey Sheffield. “Without you none of this would have been possible…KICK IT!”
EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super 20
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner
SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator
RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 16bit 44kHz using Adobe batch processing
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi PNG format, resized to JPEG format for posting.
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