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▀ ▄▄ ▀█▄▀██▄▄████▌ARTIST: POP ▐████▄███▀▄█▀ ▄▄
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█████▄ ▐█▌▐███▄ TITLE: Caramel '76 ▄███▌▐█▌ ▄█████
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▀█████▓▄▄▄█▐▓█████▌ LABEL: Myutopia Recordings ▐█████▓▌█▄▄▄▓█████▀
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▀██▄ ▀█████▌ 0hr 56min total- 82.1mb ██████▀
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▀▓▄ ▐██▌ ▐██▓▄ RIP DATE: 2003-11-11 ▄██▌
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▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ 01 Yellow Butta Sunshine 4:04 ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ 02 Honestly 3:49 ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ 03 My Suga 4:42 ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
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▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ 05 Enough Of Me 4:17 ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ 06 Supersize 5:24 ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ 07 My Life 4:23 ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ 08 Sinking 3:20 ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ 09 Nothing 4:42 ▀█████████
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▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ 11 Lost And Found 5:01 ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
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▐███▌▄█████▀ 13 Gem Acre 3:51 ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
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▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ "Everything I do, it comes from ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ dancing." This isn't a quote you'd ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ expect from a musician but it's the ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ guiding force behind the artist known as ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ Pop. His new album, Caramel '76, ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ channels many styles of music from ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ hip-hop to reggae to rock to pop; but ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ at its foundation, at the root of Pop's ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ ideology, is the art of the dance. Think ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ of hip-hop as a musical genre and a ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ culture that spawned from dancing; it ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ was the "break" of the record that the ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ dancers loved and which motivated DJs to ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ keep spinning them back to back - and ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ Pop's words make sense. "Everything is ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ from dance, from the movement," ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ explains Pop. "Even when I'm playing ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ the keyboards, it's like I'm dancing on ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ the keys. That's how I envision it." ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
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▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ It's Pop's story that gives Caramel '76 ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ context. He emigrated to the US from the ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ Caribbean as an 8 year old in 1976. He ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ first came to New York but would move ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ later to Los Angeles. As a young teen ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ on the West Coast, Pop hooked up with ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ a b-boy crew called the Electric ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ Boogaloos. The youthful, rebellious ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ clique are famed for inventing "Poppin'," ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ the robotic-funk dance style associated ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ with early hip-hop. ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
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▄ ▄███▄█████▀ While in LA, Pop took a job dancing and ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ acting on the television show Sesame ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ Street. The gig moved him back to New ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ York at the age of 15. The time was ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ right. When he first emigrated, New ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ York's concrete landscape was a Petri ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ dish for a new urban culture: hip-hop. ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ Now, that culture was in full bloom and ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ Pop was right in the middle of it. He ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ fell in with the Rock Steady Crew, whose ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ members, like Crazy Legs and Fable and ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ Freeze, Pop would battle with around ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ Times Square. Hip-hop was unrehearsed, ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ says Pop. Sometimes it was raw street ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ culture, other times it was art-scene ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ fetish object. "There was no blueprint ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ for it," he says. "We'd get hired out for ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ a party to dance somewhere and you'd see ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ Deborah Harry or Andy Warhol. Some dude ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ in stilts would be walking around the ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ room. And then it'd be Jazzy Jay or ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ Bambaataa DJ-ing. It was wild." ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
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█████▌ ███▌ At 18, Pop left television and started ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ dancing on concert tours, shows and ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ music videos. He went on tour with ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
▄▄▄ ▀▀██▄ Shalimar and Lionel Richie, and appeared ▄██▀▀■ ▀████▄
▄████▀▀▀▄ ▐██▓ in music videos by Michael Jackson just ▓██▌ ▐▌ ▐████
▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ at the time when the King Of Pop's ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ lavish choreography was captivating the ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ world through the imaginative medium of ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ MTV. ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
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█████▌ ███▌ The next year, Pop's career would take ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ an even bigger step when he hooked up ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ with percussionist Sheila E. She had ▀█████████
▀▀██▄ just been asked to go on tour with ▄██▀▀███ ▀ ▄
▄▄▄▄▄ ▐██▓ Prince;for Purple Rain. "That was an ▓██▌ ████▄ ▄█▌
▀ ▀▀███▄ ▄▓▓█▓▌ amazing time," Pop remembers. "I was ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
▐███▌▄█████▀ young. I'd run around with my backstage ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▄ ▄███▄█████▀ pass and get into trouble. There was lots ▀█████▄
▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄ of craziness happening everywhere." ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
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█████▌ ███▌ It was that experience that galvanized ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ Pop to make his own music. His father ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
▀▀███████▀ had played in a little band in New York ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
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▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓█▓▌ father. As a dancer on tour, he'd ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀ sometimes jam with the band, ▀█████▄ ▀▀▀
▀▀███▀▄█████▀ particularly towards the end of a ▀█████▄
▄█████▀ ▀▄▄ nation-wide trek. "But after the tour," ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
▐█████ ▐█▓ Pop says, "that's when the music bug ▓█▌ █████▌
█████▌ ███▌ bit. I bought a drum machine. I ▐███ ▐█████
▀█████▄ ▓██▓ already had a guitar. I just started ▓██▓ ▄█████▀
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