This clip of 1940s "rapping" with a modern soundtrack is great

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Maestro Fresh Wes’s “Let your Backbone Slide” came on the radio when I was driving. My daughter said it sounded like “What old people think rap sounds like.”

I will have to think about linking this to her.

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Reminds me of the sampling that Recoil did… Alan Wilder’s project…

It also includes some vocal overlays of Diamanda Galas…

The singing is the Golden Gate Quartet…

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Fun Fact® for the youngs: Zappa performed that song during the first season of SNL, sharing the proto-rap duties with Don Pardo, and they even pumped slime out of the studio monitors! Witness:

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Anybody else here Moby’s Run On when listening to Noah?

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I really like remixing older songs like that, giving them a modern beat.

In the case of Caravan Palace, they mix multiple elements: snippets of vocals, beats, horn stings,etc, with new elements and syths to create something that is both new, but feels older.

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Predating “I’m The Slime” is a more decidedly proto-rap Zappa song, from 1966

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I’m a huge fan of electroswing, and for a couple of albums, Caravan Palace was producing some of the best in the business. Sadly, they’ve shifted away from it quite a bit in their recent work.

Parov Stelar has produced some amazing electroswing tracks, as well:

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I’ve heard of Parov Stelar before. I should maybe explore him more.

I am a casual fan of nu-swing and electroswing - I have a few albums of both, but Panic and <|°_°|> are fantastic albums. Clash was the first song I’ve heard of theirs, but Lone Digger is probably my favorite. Wonderful stuff. Great videos too!

Their new album has a tonal shift with it being a little more poppy… I agree I’d rather they go back, but maybe they feel like they did what they needed to and want to explore more. That said, I still really like Miracle, Moonshine, and Supersonics were still really good!

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<|°_°|> was pure, mad genius.

I was lukewarm on Moonshine, but the sly wink towards the Lone Digger video at the end of the Moonshine video made me grin so big.

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Moonshine grew on me - but yes, I got a big goofy grin when it entered the Lone Digger video.

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The effect of Gilbert and Sullivan patter songs on modern rap music has been woefully ignored.

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