Mantronix
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Live Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 1986
WE WENT to Heaven, and it looked like the Bronx. Wall-to-wall black B-boys, hoods, whistles, and two unprettified lads doing their thing against a tinsel-rain ...
Mantronix: Mantronix: The Album (10)
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 22 March 1986
NOISE NEVER never never annoys you know. Mantronix go for the paintstripper approach, burning away electro's lesser indulgences and leaving hard core hip hop of ...
Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 22 March 1986
Dr Frank Owen returns with the backbeat on MANTRONIX, another pair of boys from the land of hip-hop. Is this finally the end of live ...
Mantronix: Will Hip Hop Eat Itself?
Report and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 22 November 1986
Where is it? New York city. How is it? Bloody hot in here. Why is it? Because MATRONIX, pure-steel technologists of studio and vox, have ...
Report and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 6 December 1986
To hip hop or not to hip hop, that is the question. With their new album, Music Madness just in the shops, Frank Owen travelled to NYC, home of MANTRONIX, to ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 11 July 1987
More than merely another hip hop outfit, Manhattan's MANTRONIX are breaking new ground with their brand of hardcore confusion. JACK BARRON meets CURTIS "MANTRONIK" KAHLEEL ...
Mantronix: In Full Effect (10 Records) ****1/2
Review by Richard Cook, Sounds, 26 March 1988
THE WAY Mantronix put their music together, you'd think this sort of thing was easy. It just falls into place, fluent, fresh, each lick set ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 9 April 1988
DAVID STUBBS MEETS MANTRONIX TO DISCUSS VOICES IN THE MACHINERY, STROBE FLASH, THE DECLINE OF HIP HOP, THE TRIUMPH OF ELECTRO-FUNK... AND SUNDIALS. ...
Indie Labels: Players With the Rap Attack Making the Most Impact — and It's Not Just for the Money
Report by Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 18 June 1988
INDEPENDENT LABELS have always been critical to the exposure of new black music. In the '50s, labels like Specialty and Chess gave pioneers like Little ...
Report and Interview by Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 5 August 1988
Club violence and the whiff of gunsmoke are accompanying rap's rise to prominence in the United States. Bruce Dessau reports ...
Mantronix: Cashing In Or Selling Out?
Interview by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 26 May 1990
ONCE THE PREMIER PIONEER OF ELECTRO, MANTRONIK'S LATEST WORK HAS BEEN SUSPICIOUSLY COMMERCIAL. ANDREW SMITH THINKS THE GREAT MAN HAS SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, Smash Hits, 30 May 1990
★ FULL NAME: Kurtis Mantronik. I changed it to that because I was having problems with my real name. I had a Syrian surname and ...
Mantronik the Dance King: No Messin'
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 5 March 1991
THERE'S LITTLE disputing the massive force Curtis Mantronik and the whole Mantronix aggregation have had on dance music in the '80's. Through early releases such ...
Mantronix: The Incredible Sound Machine
Review by Lloyd Bradley, Q, April 1991
FIVE YEARS AGO, hip hop duo Mantronix were among the best there was: techno-boff Mantronik's search for that perfect beat involved the unlikeliest noises fed ...
Mantronix: Into The Heart Of The Man Machine
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Select, May 1991
In his native US, KURTIS MANTRONIK is something of a mystery. But in the UK, with his group MANTRONIX, he's hailed as a pioneer of ...
see also Kurtis Mantronik
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