Sooooo positive!

Good vibes.
It just comes down to that sometimes... here's some shit that just makes me happy. I mean man it just puts a smile on my face.
Hearing the shameless new hit by Armand van Helden in a car stereo with summer outside like it was all 1987 all over again or sumtin - fact is, though, that he basically samples an original which must get the official label "slept on" amid all the day-glo, jheri-curl goo and legwarmers it's been buried under. The original singer had the impossible name Siedah Garrett so it never became a REAL hit fo'sho. Although it hella deserved it! As I said, this shit just puts a smile on my face no less no more! Freestyle records, man... That's the name of the game. Siedah's "Do You Want It Right Now" is just one in a long range of records with that eternal positivity about them; Joyce Sims "All And All", Gwen Guthrie "Nothin Goin On But the Rent" Aleem's "Confusion". Gold dust... or if not, at least silver lamé.
This brings me on to a suspicion that's been growing within me recently. We all know how it's like an all-out cliché these days to claim that the 00s are the new 80s; I mean the economy is goin through the roof, we've had our own neocon/klansman/Bushman Reagan covertly blowing up towelheads behind our back, while that nagging global warming concern is sort of postponed for the future (since hey I mean it will sort itself out won't it?) We've got yuppies and 80s kids with kids of their own, body poppin with carefree abandon. The only thing we haven't got (as much of, anyway) is crack cocaine.
But there truly is a new generation out there doing shit ra-a-w like the 80s all over again, completely careless and with no sense of tradition - just like it should be. As an example of this Imma gonna take the chance to highlight and give props to all-European cats like Hudson Mohawke, Tom Trago, Smoovth & Drums, Flogsta Danshall, Kissey Asplund, Cinnaman, Paul White old boy Mark Pritchard.

This shit is as positive as all those 80s freestyle things that Armands is ticking off. It really is as if that cliché of "the 00s being like the 80s all over" is true BUT on an even deeper level. Because this aint fashion or surface, I mean its not retro at all in the sense that it would be a rehash of sounds and looks (like that Armand tune is after all) but it is a throwback to simpler happier times in spirit, which by extension generates completely neck-breaking new looks and sounds in itself. And that's something else. That's real cool for a change.

Siedah Garrett: Do You Want It Right Now
Hudson Mohawke: Star of a Story
Hudson Mohawke: Free Mo