Blog: You Can Call Me Betty

(Photo by praschl ) Today we're talking go-go. Boiled down to it's essence, it's an extrapolation and extension of the funk jams of the 70's, and none were better at it than Trouble Funk . Also, for the record, great name. Trouble... funk . Troublefunk . Ace. Anyway, today's track is one of Trouble Funk's better hits, Pump Me Up, released at the height of go-go on Sugar Hill Records , then obviously famous for the proto-hip hop of Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash . [...]

• Trouble Funk - Pump me Up