Newcleus

   
Artist: Newcleus

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 The Next Generation

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 The Best of Newcleus

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 Jam on Revenge

   Year:    
Tracks: 7

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Although they recorded but two albums, Newcleus contributed one truthful electro authoritative in "Jam on Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)," which has been immortalized on hundreds of hip-hop mixtapes and ofttimes included in regular techno DJs' sets. The origins of Newcleus lay in a 1977 Brooklyn DJ corporate known as Jam-On Productions, including Ben "Cozmo D" Cenac, his cousin Monique Angevin, and her buddy Pete (all teenagers and still in high school). Many members -- MCs as well as DJs -- came and went as the group played block parties all o'er the borough, and by 1979, the grouping centered around Cenac, his future wife Yvette "Lady E" Cook, Monique Angevin, and her future hubby, Bob "Chilly B" Crafton. (The quartet named their group Newcleus as a consequence of the orgasm together of their families.)


By this prison term, Cenac had begun to roll up a collection of electronic recording equipment, and the quartette recorded a demonstration tape of material. With several proceedings left at the end of the tape, Newcleus recorded a favorite from their block parties, with each member's vocals sped up to resemble the Chipmunks. The track, "Jam-On's Revenge," impressed producer Joe Webb more than the other Newcleus material, and it became the group's first undivided, released in 1983 on Mayhew Records. A vast street success, the track became known on the side as "the Wikki-Wikki song" (subsequently the forbear); when it was re-released after that twelvemonth on Sunnyview Records, it had become "Jam on Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)."


The unmarried hit Top 40 on the R&B charts in 1983, and its follow-up, "Jam on It," did well on even the pop charts. "Calculator Age (Press the Button)" was a more mature undivided, with accomplished rapping and better synthesist personal effects, and it also stumble the R&B Top 40. The first Newcleus LP, Jam on Revenge, was a turn of a disappointment, and their sec album, Blank Is the Place, did even more unwell upon press release in 1984. Without a unmarried as noteworthy as "Occlude on Revenge" or "Estimator Age," and with the advent of Run-D.M.C.'s organic, rock-influenced approach to rap music music, Newcleus faded cursorily. Though the Cenacs and the Craftons continued to record periodically until 1989, they didn't hit the R&B charts after 1986.





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