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Kid 'n Play have been unfairly branded as pop sellouts over the years, despite the fact that they really never had a big crossover hit single. It was more their image that crossed over -- they had their own unique sense of visual style, yet they were positive, non-threatening, and, well, too gosh-darn friendly for the taste of street-level purists. Plus, they were young and clean-cut enough for middle-class teenage audiences to identify with. Accusations of being soft notwithstanding, those qualities are exactly what give their debut album, 2 Hype, its refreshing charm. There isn't much on the duo's minds other than friendship, dancing, and dating, and everything stays pretty innocent -- Kid even confesses to being shy around girls on "Undercover." If all of this seems safe and lightweight, it's also a tremendous amount of good, clean fun. Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor's production keeps things danceable and engaging throughout; the sound is fairly spare, with funky and occasionally club-friendly beats, catchy instrumental hooks behind the choruses, and basic DJ scratching. The whole album is pretty consistent, and the songs that were singles -- "Rollin' With Kid 'n Play," "Gittin' Funky," and "2 Hype" -- are nearly matched by some of the album tracks, particularly "Brother Man Get Hip," the story songs "Last Night" and "Undercover," and the explanation of the duo's signature dance move, "Do the Kid 'n Play Kick Step." Neither Kid nor Play is a master technician on the mic, but they're both quite respectable, in contrast to some of the would-be pop idols who followed in the years to come. And even if its sound and style are very much of their time, 2 Hype still holds up surprisingly well, thanks to Kid 'n Play's winning personalities. ~ Steve Huey
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Track Listing of songs: I'm Left You're Tight She's Gone; Tweedly Dee; ABC Boogie; Round House Boogie; Do The Bop; Birth Of The Boogie; Chuck A Boogie; Dance With Henry; Professor Longhair's Boogie; Goodnight Sweetheart; Little Mea Boogie; I Heart You Knocking; Rocking And Rolling Boogie; Honey, Honey Boogie; Sundown Boogie; Oakie Boogie; Razzle Dazzle; Too Much Boogie; Boom, Boom, Boomerang; Burn That Candle; Blue Monday; Lizabeth Boogie; Open The Door Boogie; Rock Around The Clock; Talking To You Boogie; Ain't Gonna Do It; Green Tree Boogie; House Of Blue Lights; Moon Dog Boogie; I've Got A Woman; Honey Hush; Billy Dally Boogie; Two Hearts; Drill Daddy Boogie; I Must Be Dreaming; Cold Hearted Woman; Walking Boogie; Junie Flip; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Ain't That A Shame; Come On-A My House; Rock Love; Dim, Dim, The Light; ...
| | Justin Hines Sides CD (2007)
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JUSTIN HINESIn talking about his music, singer-songwriter Justin Hines says, “Honestly, I don’t remember wanting to do anything else, period.” That sense of it being something as essential as breathing emanates from every track on his soul-searching debut album, Sides. Listening to it is an experience akin to that mystical phenomenon of everyday life when you meet someone new but, somehow, feel as if you’ve known them forever. And, while there’s a familiarity, a timelessness to Justin’s music, it’s also marked by a lean, contemporary sound and distinctly postmodern sensibility as direct and authentic as the ideas and emotions the Toronto native expresses with his literate song craft.Justin absorbed his musical gifts from his family – “My dad plays a mean folk guitar,” he says, “and my mom has a great voice. She and her mom would sing old school Irish folk songs.” Justin’s been told that as a baby, he was carrying a tune before he was talking, and remembers that, “My grandmother Margaret always had this thing that I was going to be a singer. She had me singing in church and for relatives, so any stage fright left me early.” There was also the influence of an inanimate – but equally musical – fixture of the household, a jukebox of his dad’s, loaded with old 45s. He’d sit in front of it for hours, listening to every song, note for note. It’s still in his basement, and it still inspires Hines with classic recordings by artists including James Taylor, Willie Nelson, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce and Harry Chapin. Echoes of these and other legendary artists and consummate singer-songwriters resonate throughout Sides. “Sometimes,” says Justin, “I feel like I was born in the wrong era.” At the same time, though, shades of contemporaries including Damien Rice and Ron Sexsmith are also heard, and for all of the album’s grace and maturity – which it has in spades – it’s clearly a young man’s missive. Ardent, searching and eloquent, it spotlights the prodigious talents that caused Justin, at age 14, to win a radio contest to sing the Canadian national anthem at a Toronto Raptors game (which led to national recognition and performances at many major telethons and events). Chosen out of hundreds of entrants, Justin recalls, “I was the first person to try out, and later they told me they never thought about picking anybody else. My first gig was in front of 17,000 people.”Showcasing the more intimate elements of Hines’ artistry, Sides’ fourteen tracks were culled from more than thirty he composed over the past several years, when he feels he came into his own as a songwriter – “I’ve done a lot of living, learning and growing in that time,” Justin says. Stripped-down but wrapped with warm melodies, the album’s unadorned, all-acoustic instrumentation offers an elegantly sparse backdrop for Justin’s soulful vocals. Hines had a very clear idea of where he wanted to go with the record – “I made a conscious effort ...
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