Fat Boys - Sex Machine / Beat Box Is Rocking FLAC download

Sex Machine was the first of the crossover successes that the Fat Boys recorded, which was possibly a blessing and a curse to the group, how that gets apportioned between blessing and curse is debatable, but this review isn't terribly concerned with Sex Machine, it's a decent track, funny and well produced, it has it's moments but for me the standout track on this 12" has got to be the second track on the B-Side. Beat Box Is Rocking is a monster mid to uptempo drum and beatbox track (around 118 beats per minute says my brain bpm counter), in its era I can't really think of a heavier, more energy driven beatboxing record than this. The drums pound in syncopation with Buffy's beatboxing, reaching two crescendos in one three and a half minute track. The first being slightly madcap with the rest of the Fat Boys laying down a verse to the background of party sounds that sound like the party is getting a little out of hand (in a good way I might add), then onto the second which confirms with an excellent vocodored voice that the "Beat Box is Rocking". It certainly was on this track, short but sweet but very intense, it's in my opinion Buffy's, and one of the Fat Boys' greatest moments.

The Dub version for "Sex Machine" is a funny, funky and groovy Hip Hop tune that incorporates the samples of James Brown's "Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine" classic. Mostly used in repertories of funk and Hip Hop, this special tune was definitely made to shake the dancefloors, funkiest as ever among the "Get Uuuuup!" orders to dance... Massive!