Boom! Tune of the Day: Boom! Tune of the Day: The Pop Group "War Inc."

CULTCHA Clash Outer National and Selecta J-Cut present...

Boom! Tune of the Day

The Pop Group "War Inc."

The Pop Group - Honeymoon On Mars (2016 Freaks R Us)

Welcome to CULTCHA Clash Outer National's Boom! Tune of the Day with Selecta J-Cut

This is the first edition of the blog, I had previously recorded Boom! Tune of the Day daily on Instagram, so I'll be recycling some of those tunes, as well as digging for new ones... enjoy!

The Pop Group "War Inc." (original Boom! Tune of the Day from Nov. 4, 2016)

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Today's tune is "War, Inc." by Bristol, U.K.'s The Pop Group, from their fantastic 2016 LP, Honeymoon On Mars, released on the label Freaks R Us. This one had production assistance from Hank Shocklee of groundbreaking hip-hop production crew, The Bomb Squad, who worked on about half of the songs on the album, the other half by U.K. reggae producer, Dennis Bovell (who had previously worked with the band on their 1979 debut, Y).

Since their early days, The Pop Group's unrelenting sound has defied musical boundaries and bore through the walls of convention, mixing and matching parts of jazz, funk, disco, dub, reggae, punk into an avant-garde, frenzied, riotous mash-up, further agitated by Mark Stewart's ominous words furiously wailed at the listener with biting, political overtones. The sounds have progressed but the indignation lives on, it's been said that the ass is connected to the brain stem... these guys make music to provoke movement in both.