ARTIST: Mark Stewart
TITLE: Kiss The Future
LABEL: Soul Jazz Records
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 210kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 52min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-05-30
RIP DATE: 2005-06-11
Track List
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01. Mark Stewart & The Maffia - 2:14
Radio Freedom
02. Mark Stewart & The Maffia - 5:56
Hypnotized
03. The Pop Group - She's Beyond 3:25
Good And Evil
04. Mark Stewart - The Puppet 3:07
Master
05. Mark Stewart & The Maffia - 6:18
Hysteria
06. Mark Stewart & The Maffia - 3:48
Jerusalem
07. The Pop Group - We Are All 3:14
Prostitutes
08. Mark Stewart & The Maffia - 3:10
High Ideals & Crazy Dreams
09. Mark Stewart & The Maffia - 5:40
Liberty City
10. Mark Stewart - Dream Kitchen 4:38
11. The Pop Group - We Are Time 6:35
12. Mark Stewart - Lunatics Are 4:08
Taking Over The Asylum
Release Notes:
This album spans the entire musical career of Mark Stewart, The Maffia and The
Pop Group.
Curated by Mark Stewart, "Kiss the Future" is a mixture of new material (with
new collaborators such as The Bug, Sanjay T), classic material from the
legendary Pop Group (We are all Prostitutes, We Are Time, She Is Beyond Good and
Evil) as well StewartÆs groundbreaking solo-work from the 1980s to the present
day with the legendary Sugarhill Records/Tommy Boy rhythm section (as The
Maffia) along with producer Adrian Sherwood (On U Sound). With unlimited access
to the vaults "Kiss The Future" also includes rare and unreleased material.
Mark Stewart (at aged 17!) was the lead vocalist and revolutionary sloganeer
behind the Pop Group, now cited as one of the most influential post-punk bands.
In the 1980s and thru the 1990s he went on to form Mark Stewart and the Maffia
releasing a range of heavily politicised, boundary-pushing albums fusing
electronic, dub, twisted disco, and industrial-strength hip-hop into a unique
ground-breaking sound.
The music ranges from Post-Punk/Funk to Electrofunk, Hip-Hop and Dub, Mark
Stewart (with The Pop Group and The Maffia) brought Black music influences into
Punk for the first time influencing a generation. This continues today with the
punk electronic/dancehall/desi/ dub experiments of the new material (Radio
Freedom, Puppet Master, The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum).
Mark Stewart is one of the most respected musical figures in music. LCD
Soundsystem, DFA, The Liars,!!!, Radio 4, etc and the whole new wave of New York
bands are heavily influenced by the sound.
He has constantly surrounded himself with creative artists. His group The Maffia
features legendary New York musicians Doug Wimbush, Keith Le Blanc and Skip
Macdonald. From their early days playing alongside Grandmaster Flash, Afrika
Bambaata and Sugarhill Gang the group have since played with everyone from Mos
Def to The Last Poets, from James Brown to George Clinton.
The co-producer of The Pop Group is legendary Jamaican mixer Dennis Bovell and
for his solo career Mark to this day works with Adrian Sherwood (On U Sound) who
himself has an incredible list of credits that include Lee Perry, Junior
Delgado, Bim Sherman, Einsturzende Neubaten, Andrew Weatherall, New Age
Steppers, Primal Scream and many more.
As well as the original punk/funk outfit The Pop Group (which he founded)
inventing what became The Bristol Sound and influencing the music of Massive
Attack, Tricky (with whom Stewart collaborated) etc,
Mark Stewart himself is the artistsÆ artist: Two new recent Channel 4 TV
programmes quoted both Nick Cave and Daddy G as choosing Mark Stewart as their
favourite ever artist. With everyone from Carl Craig to Sonic Youth, DJ Hell to
David Bowie (!) citing Mark Stewart as an influence, this album is the first to
ever bring his musical career together.