Just listening to Chip E's "Time To Jack".
Wow, technically it sounds like total shit. Really lo-fi, so badly mixed and eq'd. But fucking hell, I can see how this would have blown people's heads off in '86. Totally without precedent, a functional club track with no song, feeling, or any of that other nonsense attached, simply pure pounding beats, a bassline and a dryly delivered instruction to "jack". Perhaps the problem now with dance music is that people aren't limited enough by their equipment. The emptiness of this tune blows me away. And what the fuck is with that dog barking half way through?
