How ‘G’ is Bruno Borlone and Boogie Mike‘s remix of Black Machine’s 1991 Maceo & The Macks 1974 cover of James Brown’s Soul Power sampling How Gee? Well certainly more ‘G’ than Black Machine’s original video which featured that pair of chancers gooning around like a pair of proto Ali G’s even down to the tasteful bright yellow tracksuits. Thankfully BM’s vocals are now mostly either excised or submerged beneath classic hip-hop and funk shoutouts (including JB, appropriately), dirty great slap bass has been grafted on and the percussion given a twenty-first century facelift. Cop it now as part of BB and BM’s Late Night package also featuring previously posted edits Fly Robin Fly and Brick House …
(Out now on Sound Exhibitions)