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Art of Noise featuring Rakim - Metaforce
Back in college, I used to live across the hall from a kid who was a hardcore raver (which, even during the brief period at the end of the previous millenium when Bahstan kids were just as likely to pop X as they were a bottle of Guinness, was a rare site in Chestnut Hill). He always dressed like he was getting ready for the casting call of Groove, and I recall running into him late one night decked out in what looked to be a fully functional space suit, sans helmet, pushing a grocery cart with a large disco ball in it. I never got the full story on where he was headed, but presumably it was somewhere far more exciting than the typical keggers up at B.C.
Needless to say, our tastes in music were quite different. Though I would end up getting exposed to quite a bit of his cd collection, thanks to the rather thin walls in our complex, there was only one song that we both agreed was dope, the "avant-garde synth pop" group Art of Noise's Metaforce featuring Rakim. The version he had at the time was a remix by Norman Cook, perhaps better known as Fatboy Slim, that had Rakim's verse cut up:
Art of Noise and Rakim - Metaforce (Fatboy Slim remix)
I had never heard the original version of Metaforce until I found the above video earlier today. A couple of years after this song was released, Rakim continued his musical experimentation with Truth Hurts on Addictive. It's too bad the album that he was working on at the time, Oh, My God, was never released, as his career seemed to be headed in a rather interesting direction.
10/9/2008 07:49:01 PM posted by Fresh