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- Randy Muller - Fixing Inner Frequencies
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Randy Muller
Plaza Records, New York, USA
It wouldn't be a stretch to call Randy Muller "the plastic surgeon of funk"; after all, he altered the face of his genre forever. In 1974 the Guyanese, Brooklyn-based keyboardist, drummer, flutist and singer built the Brass Construction, and proceeded to thump out 1000-degree dance floor detonators (including Movin', and Changin') from the mid-'70s to the early '80s. Today, the Brass Con catalogue is regarded as an essential cross-section of the funk canon. But that's not all. Muller also developed a reputation throughout his band's heyday as a brilliant arranger whose stamp is all over big tunes like No Charge by Shirley Caesar and Express by B.T. Express. He also produced for Earth, Wind & Fire, among others, and has been a prolific remixer from back then until the present day. A studio guru seen as one of the forefathers of disco (and by proxy, hip hop), Muller's been dropping it like it's hot since before Snoop Dogg could talk. You better recognize.
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