So that means we mainly get DJ Magic Mike tracks and some from Attitude Records. Actually I guess that is typical material for the "Feel The Bass" volumes. Nothing groundbreaking, I agree, but it sure has cool artwork and it is a harder to find one in the series.
When I received the CD I thought I was effed because they added the wrong disc! Luckily it was not so but the disc sure looks like the one from Vol. 8!!
End good all good!
Like I said; nothing groundbreaking to be heard, but that does not make the tracks any less better!
Can you see it? When I saw this image during a Google search I realised there was something "wrong", something missing... Were was that classic DM Records "CAUTION MEGA LOW BASS May Damage Speakers" banner?? You know, this one:
So after some more Googling that night it turned out this was (I know, yet another) Japanese release! Released by Dolphin Entertainmetn co, Ltd Japan. The same guys that brought us the "Feel The Bass" series. They did have a warning also, on the OBI:
Dolphin also did the "Old School Players" CD (maybe they did more but these are the ones I know off). I know we are all different, but I think they really look nice with the OBI strips... and the extra DM stickers ;-)
I also have anohter Japanese DM release; "Bass Sound Off U.S.A. Volume 3". This is not a Dolphin release however but AMERICANA.
I actually haven't opened this one yet, but what seem to be the major difference with the Dolphin releases is that the Americana CD seems to be the original US release. The Dolphin CD's have Japanese liner notes and a new catalog number:
While the Americana release still has the original US catalog number. So I think they simply added an OBI strip without doing more work on it...
If it wasn't for the OBI I would have never figured it out but this is the final release in the "Feel The Bass" series!
I think all the other releases were compilations of already released music, but to my surprise this one features all new music! That's the fun with ordering Japanese cd's online, you actually never know what you will receive. So who are the Bass Boys? Can't find anything online about them. According to this cd they are Freak Stan, Rough Dee and Yes Man. There are also tracks by Monie Mike, Chef and Big T. Check 'em out and let me know if you know more about any one of them... Freak Stan, Rough Dee & Yes Man
Monie Mike
Chef
Big T
If you enjoyed these tracks, there are more on my YouTube Channel!
And then by sheer coincidence, right after finishing this post, I found Yes Man on facebook and here's what he said about this release:
"Man I had bad management back in the day
and they took a lot of my damn demos that I was just playing around
with at the studio. We was about to shop all that stuff to the major
bass & crunk labels like Bo crane, David estrogen , Gene Simmons and
other exit back then.. but the guy who I was working with took all the
demo Masters literally when I was doing a show on the West Coast back
then. Somebody told me he got a big payout from a foreign investor
oversee but I never seen or heard anything about it. I actually just
said f*** it. And started working on the dolly project that they put on
BET uncut"
