MARK RONSON & THE BUSINESS INTL Record Collection (2010 UK
14-track CD album - 'Record Collection' says goodbye to the Dap
Kings and their horn-y break downs and au revoir to the innovative
cover versions, and hello to Brooklyn b-boy sonics, swirling retro
synthesized sounds and the kind of off-kilter pop sixth sense that it's
impossible not to move to. Recorded at Dunham studios in Brooklyn
and working with vintage keyboards Ronson bought on eBay, the
album melds eighties indie to nineties hip hop beats. With guest vocal
appearances from Q-Tip, Ghostface Killah, Alex Greenwald [Phantom
Planet], Kyle Falconer [The View], Spank Rock, Rose Elinor Dougall,
D'Angelo, Wiley, Simon Le Bon, Boy George and
more, the album includes the singles 'Bang Bang Bang' & 'The Bike
Song', alongside highlights such as 'Somebody To Love Me', Jake
Shears [Scissors Sisters], Cathy Dennis, erstwhile Dirty Pretty Thing
Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt all had a hand in writing
what Ronson describes as a 'bionic' song. Then he persuaded Boy
George, at his most cracked diva-esque, to sing this song of 'earnest
blue-eyed soul' and a lost club classic with a modern twist)
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