Description
KC Flightt and Steve Poindexter, a key figure in Chicago ghetto/jacking house and the formative years of Chicago house, deliver a powerful coupling that encapsulates underground dance music from the late 1980s to early 1990s.
This popular 12-inch reissue features essential tracks that defined club culture on the American East Coast and in Chicago.
The A-side features tracks by Frank Toson, also known as KC Flightt. Drawn from his body of work released on New Jersey-based TMT Records, the tracks deliver driving dance grooves built around machine beats and percussion. “Let's Get Jazzy” thumps with a tribal rhythm reminiscent of Liquid Liquid, while “My Thing” boldly collages pitch-shifted vocals from James Brown. The sound effortlessly traverses the boundaries between hip-hop, house, and electro.
The B-side features “Work This Pussy,” a favorite in Washington, D.C.'s club scene. Built around “I'm A Bitch” by Hateful Head Helen, Sweet Pussy Pauline, and A Bitch Named Johanna, it is known as a party classic that radiates raunchy, intense energy.
Closing the record is “Work That Mother Fucker” by Steve Poindexter, who has been active since the dawn of Chicago house. Driven by nothing more than a simple drum machine and repeating phrases, it is one of the definitive masterpieces in the history of jacking house and ghetto house.
This record captures the atmosphere of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when house, electro, hip-hop, and party culture all merged. It is a rare and valuable release that lets listeners experience the primal appeal of underground dance music.
A1 KC Flightt– Jazzy Thing (Dope Dub Mix) (Blaze Remix)5:43
A2 KC Flightt– My Thing (Club Mix) 6:40
B1 Go Bitch Go!– Work This Pussy 5:52
B2 Steve Poindexter– Work That Mother Fucker 5:23
The '‘Giant 12” label here is both appealing and deceiving, a product perhaps of lax, rushed urgency and necessity rather than of deliberate obfuscation. Regardless, as the Discogs comments reveal, the genealogy and proper identification of these tracks is… convoluted to say the least. What we can say for sure is that each represents late ‘80’s / early ‘90’s dance music at its best, and frequently most uninhibited. The A-side half, pulled from Frank Toson’s (Flightt, KC Flightt, etc.) 12” release on the New Jersey-based TMT Records, is sleek machine groove, with ‘My Thing’ whirling James Brown’s pitch-shifted vocal over the same Liquid-Liquid-esque percussion which accompanies ‘Jazzy Thing’ before it. The B-side is eternal carnal dance knowledge, its amalgam of Hateful Head Helen, Sweet Pussy Pauline, and A Bitch Named Johanna’s 'I’m A Bitch' proving it a D.C. cross-cultural nightlife classic, with Steve Poindexter’s Casio drum machine-sparked all-time Chicago classic closing things off thematically.
