Digital Underground instrumentals

I love Digital Underground and you should too. I don't understand why they aren't more 

popular. If anyone is the musical progeny of George Clinton, it is Shock G. The beats on Sex Packets are thicker, funkier and far more complex than almost anything else that came out then. Since then, the Underground has continued to innovate, musically going against the grain amid constantly shifting (and quickly outdated) hip hop trends.

So: for your enjoyment, here is a selection of instrumental tracks spanning the two decades of their existence from my (excessive) collection of DU 12 inches.

1. the return of the crazy one

2. oregano flow

3. wind me up

4. let's go

5. dflowstrumental

6. hip hop doll

7. glootius maximus

8. weesom hustlas

9. doowutachlike

10. no nose job

11. money (goldmoney)

12. we got more

13. hol me down up

14. rockin to the PM (raw fusion)

15. the mission

16. wussup wit the luv

17. your sun iza pimp

No Humpty Dance?!  No Packet Man? In putting this compilation together, I was trying to highlight some of their more obscure / hella difficult to find instrumentals in addition to some of the more popular classics. Some day, I suppose I'll put together a part two.

As you may have noticed, it's been forever since I've updated this thing. I've got a lot going on, but I'll try to be more consistent. Some folks have requested that I re-up some of the old links that are now dead (one cat even suggested he'd even pay me $20 if I did so). I'll get to it as soon as I can. And if you're serious about the money, I'll add a paypal donation button. 

bonus: freaks of the industry version 3 

The cave

Ok, here's a brand-new mix that I think you'll enjoy. It features two seven-inches I recently acquired that I'd been trying to find for years. Gary "Spider" Webb's "the Cave" is one of the most bizarre records ever made. Both sides consist of teens, Julie and Jimmy stumbling around in a cave calling each other's name over a reverb-drenched surf-jam. Pure genius. I don't really know anything about Gary Webb. I'm pretty sure he was a session musician and he's got another 45 out ("drum city"), though unfortunately, I've never heard it. "The Cave" was released by Bamboo Records (I'm guessing) in the early sixties.

Ray Cathode's "Time Beat" is a record put out by a pre-Beatles George Martin on the Parlophone Label in 1962. Credited to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, "Time Beat" mixes experimental electronic effects with a minimalist George Martin arrangement, It vaguely reminds me Ferrante and Tiecher's prepared piano records. the Tornados' "Jungle Fever" is of course the b-side to the Joe Meek classic, "Telstar."

1. It Came From Outer Space!
2. Gary "Spider" Webb: the cave part 1
3. Paul Lowry: I got rhythm
4. Bill Watkins: Space Love
5. poinciana
6. Everlasting Gobstopper machine
7 Ray Cathode:Time beat
8. Transporter Energize
9. Batman
10. Swing a little Kim a little
11. Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans: What is the Milky Way? (space songs)
12. Pastor John Rydgren: Careful
13. Richard Nixon (song poem)
14. The Tornados: jungle fever
15. Raymond Scott: Ripples (Manhattan Research Inc)
16. Ford Motor Company: Standing On The Corner
17. les Baxter: Barbarian
18. Wonder woman excerpt
19. Sexy Girls
20. Raymond Scott: Twilight In Turkey (Manhattan Research Inc)
21 Out of This World
22 Hasil Adkins: cat walk
23. Paul Lowry: sabre dance
24. Leonard Nimoy: The Difference Between Us
25. Stella: beatnik's D'Occasion
26. Justice League of America theme
27. Ray cathode: waltz in orbit
28. The House Of Famous Name Brands
29 Ed Wood / Orgy Of The Dead soundtrack: She Lived As A zombie...
30. Theme
31. The Sho-Men: Slowly
32. Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans: electricity(singing science - energy & motion songs)
33. Pastor John Rydgren: a butterfly doing push ups
34. Gary "Spider" Webb: the cave part 2
35. Estelle: the Year 2000
36: Low Speed

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