This trippy little early house number was a genuine
monster in clubs across the globe for a year or so in 1987 through 1988, aided
no doubt by the fact that it had at least two different incarnations, released
about a year apart – firstly, I think, as ‘This Brutal House’ and later, as ‘Let’s
Get Brutal’. It probably wasn’t heard quite as much outside the confines of clubland,
but it stayed fresh, and was instantly ripe for any amount of remixing. This one is more firmly indebted to electro than many other early house standards, which were in the main more bpm-geared spawns of what we
might otherwise have called disco.
Nitro Deluxe is actually Philadelphia’s Manny Scretching,
who may or may not have died earlier this year … I’m thinking I saw an obit
somewhere recently.
(I googled it but my browser for some perplexing reason kept
defaulting to a search term of ‘Fanny Scratching’ … and from there I kinda lost
what it was I was supposed to be searching for in the first place. Plus a
little bit more of my own will to live)
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