Artist: Big Boss Man
Title: Winner
Label: Blow Up Records
Genre: Funk
Bitrate: 203kbps avg
Playtime: 0h 46min total
Release date: 04 Apr 2005
Rip date: 11 Mar 2005
Track List
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01. Kelvin Stardust 2:58
02. Fall In Fall Out 4:13
03. Complicated Lady 2:35
04. Tu As GachΘ Mon Talent Ma 3:17
ChΘrie
05. Reach Out 3:18
06. Oh My Gawd! 4:43
07. B.O.O.G.A.L.O.O. 3:46
08. Fever Special 4:14
09. Everybody Boogaloo 3:44
10. Jackson 16 4:12
11. The Hawk 3:27
12. Got It So Bad 3:47
13. Deception 2:42
Release Notes:
Big Boss Man are a four piece band hailing from Newbury in Berkshire, and are
the hottest news to come out of the area since the bypass got the go ahead.
Their music is a hip Hammond hybrid of Pop, 60's R'n'B/Latin/Soul and Funk. The
band formed in early 1999, signing to Blow Up in the Autumn of the same year:
nasser bouzida: Vocals, Keyboards, Drums & Percussion
trevor harding: Guitar
scott milsom: Bass Guitar & Double Bass
nick nichols: Drums (live shows)
Having already played together in various bands and being old friends, the guys
thought it made more than a little sense to put their heads together to form a
suitably funked up outfit that reflected their shared love of original dance
music flavours. Since then BBM have taken their infectious ramshackle road-show
around Spain twice (selling out 500+ venues), and through Germany and Italy.
They have played huge festivals in France, as well as being invited by Artemy
Troitsky (Russia's answer to John Peel) for a special one-off in Moscow. All of
which have helped them earn their deserved reputation as the punks of Hammond
funk!
Winner is the long-awaited follow-up to Big Boss Man's debut Humanize (2001).
The album is produced by the band and Morgan Nicholls (The Streets / Muse /
Senseless Things / Morgan). The initial recording sessions, when the band laid
down the basic tracks, took place in a disused classroom using just a crusty old
analogue 8-track tape recorder and about 3 cheap mics to get that required dirty
funk sound. The results were taken to A Major Studios in Shepherds Bush, West
London, for editing and additional recording and mixing with Morgan. Morgan is
the son of Immediate Records' in-house songwriter Billy Nicholls, so the studio
was choc-full of groovy stuff: The Who's Hammond, Steve Marriott's first guitar,
Clavis, Wurlis etc, etc. All of which were put to good use on the album!
Winner continues the trip through 60's Funk, along the way taking in Bongo/Fuzz
in Everybody Boogaloo, Latin Soul in Complicated Lady, French Beat in Tu As
GachΘ, Floor-fillers such as Kelvin Stardust, Boogaloo in, er, B.o.o.g.a.l.o.o.
and general Hammond/Moog mentalness everywhere else. (See track listing & listen
to audio clips)
The last song appears ONLY on the CD version.