"Prelude To The Planet
Detroit"
Written by James McCauley
(DXJ thru a harmonizer)
Far beyond the party atmosphere, within the
Michigan Galaxy, there lies a planet whose existence is dependent on the dance,
and whose sole function is to party, and that they do...
Deep in space there is a place where the beat
was oh so fresh, the people popped and locked and did the moonwalk to rhythms
that are def,
They partied so deep that they couldn't sleep or see the danger signs, and
before they knew they slipped into it, disaster struck hard times
Light years away they heard us play the hip hop generation sound, so they took a
gamble and to Earth they ambled and proceeded to throw down.
They said "We've searched long and hard for a beat that's tough, and we
came to find it's source", but the people of Earth gave them "Pretty
Phony" stuff and blew them all off course.
But alas, due to various economic factors and
an outright reversal of creativity the rhythms that once flourished began to
fade into dance floor depression. Upon seeing this impending disaster various
members of the dance floor sector collectively known as the nation of sweat
entrusted their fate in three valiant funksters, who with the ultimate party in
mind left the planet to invade neighboring planets with the intent of finding
the good groove, the never ending dance which they would clone and bring back to
their urban homestead and distribute equally amongst the inhabitants...
With the O-B DX and the Roland Juno, they made
their message known in the studio, they said we're "Planet Detroit and
that's the joint, we came to party baby, not exploit"
And while the people of Earth fell into a daze, they jumped on the charts like
ol' Ike Hayes, but as you know there ain't no buttered soul in the world of
corruption called the radio.
And like loose lip that can sink a ship, one went off on an ego trip he said
"My chops are quick and my riffs are mean, I'm the most intrinsic guy on
the local scene".
And he keeps talking smack while they don't look back, cause they know that
they're moving on the right track, so to the beat everybody keep your ears
tuned, looking out for the raiders of the lost groove!
Even though their meager vehicle of invasion was well prepared,
they were beset by problems in marketing and distribution, and were thus choked
out by various brainwashed, break dance practitioners whose capacity for dance
floor movement is restricted to one common beat that has been mercilessly
imitated and duplicated by so-called "music specialists" , this along
with the traitorous and psychological defection of the endowed invaders, the
mission seemed doomed... But wait! An undiscovered yet succesful escape was
launched from "Planet Devoid" of true dance rhythms, and after
wandering aimlessly through the record galaxy for months without charting, they
chanced upon the Empyre small band of renegades on a similar mission, together
the formed an allegiance to vindicate the true meaning of modern dance floor
tactics, and upon their return to the Planet Detroit, they shall unveil the
master plan!
In a world far away as the moon slowly sets,
the people sit and sigh about their debts, It's been a long time since they
rocked and popped, and they do now is sit around and talk,
They talked about those upon their planet, looking for the funk as though they
never had it, And they talked about our heroes and their quest, saying they did
what they did cause they thought it was best,
And every night they raise their heads to the sky, looking for the answer or the
reason why.
They haven't lost sight of their hopes and dreams, just the way they look at
reality, and another day ends into a night, the sun lit sky reveals an eerie
sight, it's a little space ship out from the void, returning the funk to the
Planet Detroit!
"Prelude To The
Planet Detroit" - By Maggotron JR002.
Written and Produced by James McCauley
Roland Juno 106 Keyboard, Roland MSQ Sequencer, Oberheim DX Drum Machine, vocals,
voccoder and mixed: James McCauley.
Engineered and recorded by Tom Anthony at Natural Sound Recording Studios,
Hialeah Gardens, Florida. 1985.
8 -Track Analog.
Invisoclam's epic review of
"Prelude to the Planet Detroit " by Maggotron.
Well, obviously Mr. DXJ had a lot to say about
the local and national music scene at the time and decided to fill up a lot of
space on vinyl in saying it! That having been said, you will notice a lot of
references to song titles by The Empyre and other related Jamron groups in this
song, also you will notice a lot of venting about former collaborators and
competing artists of the day... yes, this one here is pretty self explanatory.
The beat on this one is quite a departure from the normal Maggotron releases of
the day due to the fact that Maggotron always did and still does prefer to work
in the concept album/collection of songs mode as is evidenced by the EP
that this song appears on, again this was something that the average Miami
Electro Artist at the time had no grasp of! For the die-hards out there this
song was influenced by the P-Funk style of rambling on and on about some funky-
sci-fi topic, much the way this review is rambling... any how, put on the
headphones when you listen to this one and you will here DXJ in a sped up voice
also parody and lampoon songs and artists that were contemporaries of this jam.
Prelude gets the coveted "Clam Set in
Soapstone" award for it's non-mainstream creativeness in the 12" vinyl
medium.
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