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Don't Disturb This Groove

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Ok, I just put my 6 yr old son to bed, im going thru my collection of mp3's, listening to stuff i havent heard in a long time, when I scroll down and come to "The System". Of course I have to click, and WTF...oh my god...it just starts...the groove of "Dont Disturb this Groove"...goosebumps appear, im whooshed back to 1987, and im lost in the groove and no one better disturb mine. incredible. Its been a favorite of mine since it came out. I saw them in concert....wow. Can you get the feeling that this leaves me a little speechless? You dont understand...just listen...you will.

The System has provided the best 80's music I've ever listened to. And 1987's Don't Disturb This Groove is no exception. 20 years ahead of it's time, it's like Ready For The World meets Depeche Mode. There's even MIDI (computer language) layered beneath the synth. Mic Murphy's R & B vocals are the perfect compliment to David Franks keyboards. The album is taut, so it carries well. My favorites are Didn't I Blow Your Mind? and Modern Girl.

I saw the system in a 86 concert in my city on the superfest tour, them, and oneway had the party hype. Don't disturb this Groove what was my favorite song by system in those days, heyl I even had the door sign that said the same thing. lol great group, great memories. Man! I loved da 80's that was the one true era of being original being different and being yourself.

Not an overstatement. This is the ROAD manager from a "second tier" funk band (Kleeer). Michael Murphy was not even their manager! And that is not a well-connected major funk act (i.e. p-funk, commodores, earth, wind and fire, gap band, kool and the gang etc.) and the BACK-UP keyboardist, not even a full member of Kleeer; David Frank, was a little known session player who was only hired to play on the tour after playing a little on Kleeer's previous album. David Frank a white guy trained in classical, with recitals as a child in Boston and playing in cover bands after high school moved to N.Y.C. to make it as a session musician. So how in the hell just because Michael "Mic" Murphy used to sing in church as a child can these guys meet on this Kleeer tour in 1983 and decide to make a band with no other members but the two of themselves and with only enough money between them for a 3-piece rack mounted electronic music unit called the Oberheim System how can this actually work?? FYI: The Oberheim System circa 1983 consisted of the DMX drum machine, the OBX keyboard, and a DSX sequencer to record your beats and keyboards tracks in. Well Dave had provided keyboard services to some guy a while earlier in exchange for free studio time so Dave and Mic took their oberheim system to the studio to finish a song Dave had started working on that he wanted his friend from the run-down warehouse where those aspiring for fame in New York's entertainment industries had hung out and rehearsed. Affectionately called "The Music Building" this friend from the shabby old warehouse was named Madonna. Dave hoped now that she had just gotten a deal with Sire Records that he could write a song for her to record, and jumpstart his career as a songwriter. Well what Madonna heard didn't fit into what they were working on for her album which was going to have a more "poppish" feel and his song called "It's Passion" was more R&B oriented. So Dave recorded it with Murphy using the free studio time he had owed to him and Murphy took the studio tape the next morining after the allnight session to a duplication service to press a 12" vinyl record of it. Mic figured he could take it to the D.J.'s at Danceteria and the Roxy to ask them to play it hoping that would create a "street-buzz" for their new "band". The guy at the dupe service tells him: "Cool and why don't you try Mirage Records the guy over there is looking to sign bands with a 12'' club sound, we master a few of them Mirage club records here. Just drop the name Jerry Greenberg when you get over there." So Mic takes it to this Greenburg guy and THAT SAME DAY after being up all night recording it they have a record contract. Well the song is a hit in the clubs so President of Mirage Jerry Greenburg fronts them the money to do an album, Greenburg has a distrubution deal with Atlantic Records, and the rest is as they say; history. The System go on to record incredibly inspired, smartly crafted, and exciting songs and albums for Mirage and Atlantic. Once successful and at the forefront of the Hi-Tech cutting edge R&B sound The System start to produce and work with other artists like Chaka Khan, Angela Bofill, Jeff Lorber, Robert Palmer, Phil Collins, Evelyn "Champange" King and others. Dave much later goes on to do some arrangements and session work for the Boy Bands in the 1990's. He uses this opportunity to write a huge hit ballad for one of the bands; "The Hardest Thing" for 98 Degrees. He then continues to work in the very prosperous NEW POP milleu and composes and produces "Genie In the Bottle", and "He Loves You Not" in his one of a kind inimitable "Funky Digital" keyboard style. Simply Incredible what The System makes you believe when the impossible is made real! The System will make you believe in yourself. Real "Love and Magic" is all up in their music. Buy every single thing they are associated with, you'll get WAY more than your $10-15 bucks back out of it.

The System's Don't disturb this groove is one song that will bring you and your sweetheart into the throng's of passion. I remember this song from the 80's at school dances and parties.
It will definitely turn up the heat.

I remember listening to songs by the system since I was 8 years old. Their song are a soundtrack to my life. Growing up in the 80's there isn't a track by The System that I dont love. I have 3 of their albums: ESP, Don't Disturb This Groove, and Rhythm and Romance. I just cannot express how much I love their music. I even have Mic's solo album, touch. I have listened to their stuff so much, that I know their style just about anywhere and in anyone's music. This duo is nothing short of PHENOMENAL!!

I lot of people remember their music, all you have to do is play "Don't Disturb This Groove" and they ALL remember it. I play their stuff all the time to this day. When I was little I swore I would get the CD when I could. As soon as I turned 18, Don't Disturb This Groove was the 1st CD I bought. Their music is very rare and out of print so get them all when you can. I have 2 more albums to buy and then my collection will be complete!! The System is classic music that will never go out of style.

Back in '86 when I was in elementary I listened to The System on the radio everyday. Don't Disturb This Groove was a classic song. I liked the other songs but that particular song really stuck with me over the years and that song is still my favorite song that was ever made by any artist. If you don't own that album I suggest you get it before they stop selling it. Thanks to The System for the memories.

What happened to these guys? The System was a great 1980s act and this album--probably their most successful--illustrates that point. Given Mic Murphy's great voice and R&B-star looks and David Frank's thinking man's phat beats and synth grooves, they should have attained greater fame. I also recommend their first album from 1982 featuring "You're in My System"--Robert Palmer did a pretty good version of this--and the overlooked should-have-been-a-hit, "It's Passion." If the CD gods are just, perhaps that album and their sophomore effort from 1984 will ber released also.

Well The System are expert at laying down a mighty,mighty

groove in their patented techno-funk style.They started in 1983 and all kinds of artists went on to imitate them but THEY did it first!The title cut and it's instrumental version retitled

"Groove" are the best known songs from this album and you gotta admit these two wrote very catchy tunes!That is in more fine affect then on "Come As You Are (Superstar)","Save Me","Modern Girl" and "Soul Boy"-all perfect pop songs in that 1980's

techno dance-funk pop sound!"House Of Rhythm" they incorperate

elements of old school hip hop and,as the rap part goes like

Kentuky Fried Chicken they do it RIGHT!And for those who want

to harken back to their classic sound GO NO FURTHER then

"Heartbeat Of The City"."Nightime Lover" meanwhile would've

sounded fair with Madonna singing lead and "Didn't I Blow Your

Mind" sounded like it needed Janet Jackson but they're still

great songs.With the ENTIRE album pursuing uptempo,hook-filled

songs father then meandering grooves this is one of the few

1980's groups who were innovative,commercial and very dancable

all at once!And even if the music totally brings to mind it's

own time period there is a timeless quality about.I am DEFINATELY in their System!!

This is a great record. It is The System's third release: Their first was the self titled The System, and the release of the song You(Are in my system). Maybe some of you remember the Robert Palmer cover of that song. Or maybe he did it first, whatever. The second was The Pleasure Seekers (Awesome), and now to get to this one... Don't Disturb This Groove is great. There were not a lot of other artists using the technology of The Sinclavier at that time except maybe Michael Jackson. The result is a wide variety of cool sounds, catchy melodies, and great vocals. The mix is phat. I especially liked songs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6. There are some upbeat songs and some great ballads sung uniquely by Mic, of course David Frank is the brains behind the "GROOVE." Hats off fellows. Thank you for some great high school and college memories! Peace...