Has anyone heard the "Da Krash". They were on the old video soul with Donny Simpson and they were talking much shit about prince, because they said that their funk was hard and prince played that wimp funk. Is this album really hard and is it good? Hard doesn't really mean good all of the time. They said they were influenced by George Clinton, the Time and Jesse Johnson and not Prince at all. I wonder if those fools knew that Prince was the time for the most part in the studio. Anyway they didn't last long.


Track listing I found.


1. TRAPPED IN PHASES

2. WASN'T I GOOD TO YA

3. TEMPTATION SENSATION

4. DANCE WITH ME

5. FEELING LIKE THIS

6. EASY COME EASY GO

7. UPTOWN

8. TU MADRE


Is track 7 a remake of Prince's uptown?

Well???? Don't tell me they were that unpopular

Jesse's all over this album! he wrote and produced most of the tracks and nearly all of them have that trademark 'snare to make yo ears bleed' sound that Jesse loved during that period.... I like it - good, solid 80's Minneapolis sound. Fave tracks are the slow and funky 'Wasn't I Good To Ya?' and the instrumental 'Tu Madra' with sax by Brian Gallagher (if I remember right!).

Defintely worth adding to the collection. Beware the follow up though - the grouped morphed into Kool Skool who released a lame swing album a few years later with awful rapping. Jesse at his worst....

...oh and uptown is completely different track to Prince's - its an ok ballad....

These guys sure as hell aint Mazarati but they were good. I found their album on CD after having the vinyl since it was released. They were like Jesse's version of The Time. Jesse is handling all the real guitar work and production.

andyd said:

You are forgetting the 2nd Ta mara LP. Give me Kool Skool any day!

thedog said:

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They were okay. This was Jesse taking a swing at Prince.

They turned into kool skool I think? That album is great. Jesse still behind the desks mind. They got high top fades and went newjack. And all the better I say.

i've been looking for the cd for a while. i have the music video for "wasnt i good to ya" - that shit is tight.

Found the cassette for like in one of those 2 dollar bins a few years ago. Haven't found it on CD yet.

...CD has extra track - Wasn't I Good To Ya? (da Remix). (although should really be titled 'da crap remix'!)

There are also 3 x 12"s available for those completists out there - Trapped In Phases and two different ones for Wasn't I Good To Ya?

As for Kool Skool, in addition to the album I think there are 3 x 12"s, each with loads and loads of remixes on - My Girl, You Can't Buy My Love and Waste My Time.

The first two tracks are pretty good, but the others are just ok.

"Wasn't I Good To Ya?" !

My favorite is "Trapped In Phases". I love to play it after Jesse Johnson's "Color Shock".