Goin' Old School isn't a trip down music memory lane, it's a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia: This week on Goin' Old School we're going back to one of my first love B-Boy Electro, Electro Funk, Electro Boogie or whatever you want to call it. The Problem is most of the classic cuts from back them don't have videos, but luckily we can kick off with the quintessential Electro jam, Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force 's 'Planet Rock' from 1982 We love some Mantronix [...]
Thanks to "Old School Hip Hop Tapes" we're going to be dropping some serious heavy pressure over this week – this being the first, an absolute steamer of a mix from Mantronix back... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Before Mantronix was making R&B, Kurtis Mantronik and MC Tee was not only Electro pioneers but the best in their game. From 1984 to 1988 they produced some of the best Electro Hip Hop in the world and constantly reinvented their sound with evolving music production technology, culminating in 1988's 'In Full Effect' album and the 'Simple Simon (You Gotta' Regard)' single. Buy Mantronix's music from:
This will most likely be my only post for the week. Barring any further disruption (...long story) I will be heading to Miami this Thursday for the Ultra Music Festival to see Duran Duran, Underworld, Hybrid, Pendulum, Erasure, Royksopp, Ed Rush & Optical, The Chemical Brothers and about a billion other electronic acts. I'm getting to South Beach on Thursday afternoon. The concert, however, does not start until Friday afternoon, so if anyone out there has any entertainment recommendations for someone who does not like to go to clubs, get shitfaced and have creepy anonymous sex [...]

This is one of the joyful ones. One of the ones that make me want to leap about the living room with gay abandon ('Leave me out of this' - Gay Abandon) ['You stole a joke from Smash Hits in the 80s?' - Any smarty pants]. Mantronix does Kelly Rowland; Joey Negro does Labrinth; Freemasons do George Michael; Seamus Haji does Jamiroquai and Duck Sauce do Barbra Streisand. A pretty storming 74 mins of soaring, swooping, chunky, floaty house including Oakenfold with him out of Bros , Camille 'The Creeps' Jones, [...]

just-ice - "latoya" (download) Former Brooklyn punk club bouncer Just-Ice has had some heavy hitters taking care of his production over the years. This album, 19862s Back To the Old School was produced by Kurtis Mantronik ( Mantronix ), Just-Ice' s Kool & Deadly was produced by KRS-One , his fourth album Masterpiece was produced by Grandmaster Flash , and in recent years he's worked with DJ Premier . As [...]

El dúo británico Hurts, una de las revelaciones musicales de este año tras temas tan pinchados en todas las radios como "Better Than Love", vuelven a dar otra vuelta de tuerca a uno de sus temas, "Wonderful Life"... Reinventan de nuevo este track y lo vuelven a lanzar en otro nuevo EP acompañado de varios remixes. HURTS - Wonderful Life (New Version) HURTS - Wonderful Life (Mantronix Remix) HURTS - [...]

Hurts' new video is a tribute to the missing dancer . Nice! In case you missed it, grab the Mantronix remix here

We've only featured the great new U.K. band Hurts with remixes before by Fred Falke and Jamaica, that's a bit of a shame for us and hurtful. But now we will give you Hurts big time. Hurts are a preppy duo from the UK consisting of Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson. They make synth pop in a tremendous way. It's beautiful, got soul and it got the big inspiration of the 80s synth era of Depeche Mode and similar bands. We'll start with their new single "Wonderful Life" that is released on August 23 [...]

hurts - "wonderful life (mantronix remix)" (download) These guys look like Ultravox and sound like Culture Club. Their single "Wonderful Life" was already a recent favorite of mine before I heard Arthur Baker's awesome remix, and then stumbled on this remix from 802s electro legend Mantronix, which takes the cake as far as these re-workings go. There's really nothing about this song that would lead you to believe this DIDN'T come straight out of the 802s. website

"After buckets of blood, tears and gold and emptying the contents of our hearts, it is now over." Teo and Adam found...happiness. The Manchester duo are set to release their long-awaited debut album, 'Happiness", on September 6th. Before that, Hurts will release their second single 'Wonderful Life', which was recently remixed by Arthur Baker , on August 23th. Here's the Mantronix remix of 'Wonderful Life' for your own happiness... Hurts: 'Wonderful Life' [Mantronix Remix] [ mp3 ] [...]
Well, not really round 2, it's the same track. We premiered Kurtis Mantronik of Mantronix 's awesome reMix of HURTS ' 'Wonderful Life' yesterday , and now we've had the go ahead to offer it to you lot as a download! Read what we said about it here , and download it right here. ♫ HURTS - Wonderful Life (Mantronix reMix) 'Wonderful Life' is being re-released as a single backed [...]

Half augustus komt de nieuwe single van Hurts uit, Wonderful Life. Een rustiger en gevoeliger nummer waarmee de mannen bewijzen dat ze een band zijn om rekening mee te houden. In de mail (ik word steeds beter gevonden door de belangrijke mensen) kreeg ik een hele fijne remix van dit nummer toegestuurd: de Mantronix Remix. De naam klinkt herkenbaar, en navraag leert dat het inderdaad dezelfde man is die in de jaren '80 een hitje scoorde met Got To Have Your Love en later is gesampled door Beck en de Beastie Boys. De remix klinkt lekker, fijne retro [...]

Had a brief break in HURTS -ing you over the past few weeks, but with this piece comes the ushering in of official news...great, rad, awesome news even. But then again, when haven't I been super geeked to reveal some bit of info surrounding the Mancunian duo of Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson. Hey HURTS, bring on the pain! First note of worth: HURTS will release Wonderful Life [...]
Surely this is too good to be true? HURTS ' 'Wonderful Life' reMixed by producer extraordinaire, Mantronix 's Kurtis Mantronik! Following in the footsteps of Arthur Baker, Kurtis Mantronik is the second New York Electro Hip-Hop pioneer to tackle the song (all we need now are reMixes from Afrika Bambaata, Manny Parrish and Grandmaster Flash!) and brings a real old school Electro feel to the track, complete with Planet Rock kicks. I can't put my finger on why 'Wonderful Life' lends itself so well to this kind of reMix…it just does! [...]
This is part three in Salacious Sound's The History of Electro. To recap what we've covered so far head on over to Part I: The Death of Disco and the Rise of Kraftwerk and Part II: Electro Gave DJs Their First Grammy! Following Kraftwerk's rocketing rise to fame in 1981, little uncertainty about the influence of electronic music in the domain of global pop culture remained. But the synth-driven acoustics of Computer World only tell half of the story of electro's early development. After [...]
Mantronix - King of the beats ( DJ Prince 2009 remake) [ mp3 ] DJ Prince's rework of this classic is the highlight of the month for sure

You remember how the Coen Brothers put out a "Director's Cut" of Blood Simple , and it was shorter than the original? South Bay hip-hop magnate Peanut Butter Wolf took a cue and made 73 mixes of classic hip-hop tunes, selling the 45s in a tin can à la PiL's Metal Box . Brilliant. For those who are stuck listening to music on an iPhone, don't have $50, or just want to get the party started, PBW threw the tracks together in a mix for ye. [...]

I hinted at this last week, in my original post for Peanut Butter Wolf's 45 Live box set of hip hop vinyl singles, but the track list for his collection provided too irresistible. So, that's what you're going to get, more songs featured in the set, but first things first, if you haven't heard about 45 Live, go and to check it out . I said pretty much all I needed to say about the awesomeness of this set in my previous post, but for this one here I just went down the list [...]
Celebrate the weekend with a groovin' play list that includes some classic oldies from LLCoolJ, 23 Skidoo and Mantronix, some re-edits by SirBilly and Dave Wrangler and remixes that bring the disco, the electro and the left field hip hop flavor. Now is the time on SIART when we dance!Aural Exciters - Spooks In Space" (Luke Howard & Felix Dickinson Filthy & Foolish Edit)Dragonette - Pick Up The