Brit-Soul legend Junior Giscombe (he of Mama Used To Say fame) came back in fine style with this dance-floor smasher back in 1990.
Despite featuring D Mob's Dancin' Danny D on production and Nuff Juice on the rap (a combo that worked to great effect on D Mob's Put Your Hands Together), Step Off seems largely forgotten (I can't even find a video on Youtube for it), but still sounds great to me.
The 7" version is dope, with its Hip-Hop breakbeat, stabs, and early nineties trademark piano chords. Dancin' Danny D's Slammin' & Jammin' Mix is essentially an extended version, and, is my favourite of the bunch. The oddity here is The Boogie Pella, which strips out the vocals & melodics and turns it into something of a breakbeat led monster. Really good if you're into that sort of thing (like me).
I've just found out there are a suite of Blacksmith remixes of this that I haven't ever heard before. Damn. I think I'm going to get the 12" and post it here in the future if Mickey hasn't got it. Mick??
By the way, I'm trialling putting up lossless .WAV rips as well as high quality 192kbp MP3s with this post - let me know if it's worth me taking the time doing this. Thanks!!
Enjoy!
- Step Off (7" Version)
- Step Off (Dancin' Danny D's Slammin' & Jammin' Mix)
- The Boogie Fella
The high quality MP3 CD rip @ 192kbps download link is here: Download
Filename: Step Off.ZIP Size: 23.2 MB
The lossless quality CD rip WAV files download link is here: Download
Filename: Step Off - WAV.ZIP Size: 122 MB
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