Lose Tunes Track 05

Today's edition of Lose Tunes is brought to you by Martin's V.V.O. scotch. I would link to the distillery's website if the distillery actually still existed. It's been out of business for decades. The Official Liquor Distributor of IN PLAY LOSE found a case of this stuff in his basement – I'm serious, he did – and this usquebae is actually pretty nice. It does wonders to ease my screwed up neck and back, which I am going to have my chiropractor declare war on here in 30 minutes or so. Christ, it hurts. All I have to say to everyone reading this is DON'T GET OLD, because getting old sucks.

Lose Tunes are not all morose and miserable songs by any stretch. Sometimes you just need a good beat that you can dance to. And it's good that I am drinking scotch, because Track 05 on the Lose Tunes is from Scottish DJ Lex Blackmore, aka Blue Boy. This song vamps on samples from a 1969 song called Woman in a Ghetto by Marlena Shaw, the chorus being a line referring to black nannies raising white children during the era of American segregation. A fair amount of American music has been based on the idea of taking shitty subject matter and making it sound groovy nonetheless, the idea being that art and expression can trump one's troubles and defeat oppressors in their own small ways. I think this DJ track is in keeping with that spirit.

This song is funky as hell.