Thursday, July 15, 2004  

"That style is so sold out and dated!"

Betty Boo & the Beatmasters, "Hey DJ / I Can't Dance (To the Music You're Playing)"
Betty Boo, "Boo Is Booming"
Betty Boo, "Doin' the Do" (7-Inch Radio Mix)
from Boomania (Sire, 1990)
Betty Boo, "Doin' the Do" (The Beatmasters Club Mix)
from 12-inch single (Sire, 1990)
The Beatmasters & Merlin, "Who's in the House?"
from 12-inch single (Rhythm King, 1989)
The Beatmasters & Cookie Crew, "Rok da House"
from 12-inch single (Rhythm King, 1987)
Cookie Crew, "Females" (Extended 12" mix)
from 12-inch single (TVT, 1987)

Betty Boo was a smokin' spy-chick singer-rapper. Like so many others, Boo got a big push because of the Beatmasters, that late-'80s, early-'90s production team that struck gold with pretty much everything they touched. While the Beatmasters didn't produce the whole Boomania album, their influence is all over it. Doesn't the opening riff from Betty Boo's "Hey DJ" sound like Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill"? I wish everything sounded like the opening riff of "Solsbury Hill."

The only non-Beatmasters productions here are Betty's "Doin' the Do" and Cookie Crew's "Females," but they are still fine hip-house, the only genre that matters!

Got a few bucks to spare? I'm talking less than 3? Then pony up, brah:
Betty Boo
Cookie Crew
The Beatmasters

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