MT Presents...

Imagine a night in 1972. The place a city, could be Detroit. Maybe Chicago, the Lower East Side of Manhattan or just a nameless urban wasteland. Your in a car driving through the damp darkness and pull up to some stoplights. They turn red. Glancing around your surroundings you see a wino drinking out of a brown paper bag, he'll feel that in the morning if he even survives the night. The light turns green and you drive on past derelict buildings, dealers, users and other people that live in that time of eternal gloom between the witching hour and dawn - a time when sensible people are home, tucked up warm in bed. Seeking a distraction you turn on the radio. It crackles into life. Turning the dial you pause briefly on a talk radio station. Shirley Chisolm has just declared she's running for President, bringing out still raw emotions of the civil rights movements in insomniacs and board shift workers across the city. It's been a long day, you don't need this sh*t. Giving the dial another half turn you here the end of a track. Heavy on the horns, a thumping bass line and pounding organ. This is more like it. The voice of the late night DJ pierces the late night haze proclaiming it to be just beyond the witching hour a time for the sounds of the city, the raw emotion of the urban wasteland...

Track Listing:-

01 Harlem River Drive - Idle Hands
02 Roger and The Gypsies - Pass the Hatchet
03 Cumulo Nimbus - March of the Goober Woobers
04 The Mohawks - Dr Jekyll and Hyde Park
05 Baby Huey - Mighty Mighty Part I
06 Stevie Wonder - Living for the city (Funkefied Rainbow Version)
07 Eumir Deodato - Rhapsody in Blue
08 Gil Scott Heron - The Bottle