Two years ago I bought this album and listened to it a few times, thought it was okay but not spectacular, and put it away where it would have collected dust but I'm pretty neat even with things I'm not using. That's just how I roll.
Today as I was looking for music to play during my work out, since many of us Hepcat Hermits like to keep in shape and have some groovy music to listen to while doing it, I saw this and suddenly remembered, "Oh yeah, the Beasties put out an album of instrumentals a few years ago. Maybe I'll give that a try."
AND WAS AMAZED!!!
Yes, sometimes there are things which work best without a lot of preconceived notions. This is the sort of album that, if you are expecting one thing, you may be disappointed. But if you heard it somewhere and didn't know who it was, you would say, "Hey, this is great! Who is it?"
It's funky! It's groovy! It swings! It sings!
This is seventies action movie music, even more proficiently performed than the sort of music made by the very excellent Morricone Youth. This is music for a car chase, for an opening credits sequence, for the sun coming up over an urban mystery. Music to crash through windows in slow motion by!
My newfound appreciation may just have to do with having gotten into Italian crime movies of the seventies in the last couple years, such as this little gem starring Luc Merenda, who was most recently seen in Hostel II. (I love the part at about :40 where the guy gets shot through the porno mag. Wonderful and hilarious noir sin & cynicism, the fear of every guilty young boy brought to life. Yes, shoot me, just don't tell my mother!) This piece is from the soundtrack, and much of the music on The Mix-Up is in that style, but with the unmistakeable Beasties stamp on it.
And here is one of the actual pieces:
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