Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The Greyboy Allstars - What Happened To Television?

On the heels of highly successful reunion tour last year, The Greyboy Allstars met in the studio for the first time in a decade to make What Happened to Television?, which is also the group's first collaboration with DJ Greyboy since their seminal 1995 debut, West Coast Boogaloo.


Television was written and recorded in about a week's time, even though all of the writing took place during, rather than before, the group's reunion in the studio. "No one was allowed to bring any ideas that they had in. We had to sit down and all create together," explains Elgin Park.

The album was recorded totally live, without the use of computers. What few edits were made were done by the old-fashioned technique of cutting tape by hand. Capturing the sounds when truly fresh was, in part, a nod to the spontaneous brilliance of the band's shows. But it was more a case of the music simply feeling great to everyone right away that allowed the recording to begin-and be completed-so quickly.


Tracklist:

1. V Neck Sweater
2. What Happened to TV?
3. Still Waiting
4. Deck Shoes
5. How Glad I Am
6. Back in the Game
7. Left Coast Boogaloo
8. Old School Cylons
9. Knowledge Room
10. Pigeons Under Water
11. Give the Drummer Some More

The Greyboy Allstars - What Happened To Television?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Whats up I didn't know you liked Greyboy allstars... Thanks for the songs