Going Places: The August Darnell Years

Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Ron Rogers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 29, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Strut Records
• ASIN: B0013UL4G0
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,273 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Sunshower

2. Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band- Goin' To A Showdown

3. Kid Creole & The Coconuts- Going Places (Zemix Version)

4. Cristina- Is That All There Is?

5. Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9- On a Day Like Today

6. Machine- There But For the Grace of Gof Go I (12" Version)

7. Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band- I'm An Indian Too (12" Version)

8. Aural Exciters- Marathon Runner

9. Coati Mundi- Pharaoh (Can't Take It To The Grave)

10. Aural Exciters- Emile (Night Rate)

11. Kid Creole & The Coconuts- He's Not Such A Bad Guy After All (12" Version)

12. Ron Rogers- Don't Play With My Emotions

13. Kid Creole & The Coconuts- Double On Back

14. Aural Exciters- Paradise

15. Kid Creole & The Coconuts- Off The Coast Of Me

Editorial Reviews

New-York Times

Smart, mysterious and outrageous polyglot disco.

Singer/songwriter/producer/alchemist August Darnell (a.k.a. Tommy Browder) might be to disco what Orson Welles was to cinema.

A collection of stuttering, stately, and studiously weird disco songs that have to be heard to be believed.

It's hard to imagine dance music half as grand and imaginative being made today.

Product Description

With Going Places, the aficionados at Strut take a look at one of the archetypical producers behind the dirty, dubby, no-wave disco sound of the 80's, shedding light on the career of a man more familiar to many for his work in the spotlight than behind the boards. With today's DJs consistently championing Kid Creole's early work, this release covers the period from 1974 to 1982 and features rare extended versions and album tracks released on CD for the first time. The set is compiled by DJ Guido of Paris DJs with extended sleeve notes by legendary New York journalist Brian Chin.

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Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS MAN IS A NATIONAL TREASURE GET ON BOARD PEOPLE!, June 6, 2008

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M. Vipond "poolboy666" (los angeles, ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Going Places: The August Darnell Years (Audio CD)

August Darnell brother of Stony Browder of Doctor Buzzard's Savannah Band aka Kid Creole aka producer of Don Armando's Rhumba Band and the Aural Exciters proprieter of ZE Records the cult no-wave disco label that defined the 'Danceteria' sound starting in '79 before new wave was the norm, "Cherchez La Femme" was the Billboard pop hit in the 70's that put Darnell on the map with the classic lyric, "Tommy Mottola lives on the road..." sung by the genius Cory Daye. When you listen to this CD you know you're in the hands of a master. His music spans rock and pop into disco, funk, latin and big band and then polishes it off with a nasty dose of synth wave. The girl vocals are alternately sultry like Buzzard's or mocking like Cristina or Aural Exciters, "He's Not Such A Bad Guy (After All)". The production is still a revelation and sounds fresh, innovative and totally danceable. August also produced the cult disco hit "There But For The Grace of God" by Machine and ZE was an outlet for his 12" releases, many of these underground classics and out of print for ages. The inclusion of "I'm An Indian, Too", the bizarro remake of the Irving Berlin tune sung by Fonda Rae is truly worth the price of admission but the fact that EVERY track is phenomenal truly blows my mind. Anyone into funk or disco this is a must, anyone into house and techno another must and anyone into big band, 80's punk, anything about old New York. Get with it NOW!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Darnell: Underrated, June 2, 2008

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Martin Chochinov "Halsted" (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Going Places: The August Darnell Years (Audio CD)

This is a crazy interesting collection of Darnell's work that highlights his impact on future music styles. Marathon Runner (Aural Exciters) and He's Not Such a Bad Guy Afterall ( Kid Creole and the Coconuts) are excellent examples of early disco and later pre-hip-hop/rap/soul/funk.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goning Places, June 4, 2008

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Adriana Kaegi "dearaddy" (nyc) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Going Places: The August Darnell Years (Audio CD)

have been looking to buy it in stores but all the cd's are sold out and out of print, so i am very happy to be able to buy it here.

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