The Comedy of Errors: Drunken Master - 24-7 (19 June 1992)

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Taking his name from an early Jackie Chan film, Drunken Master was a one-off alias for Andre M Williams, better known as MC Dashy D whose collaboration with DJ Cue Tips on the 1988 track, Control remains a fondly spoken highpoint of early UK hip-hop.

For the present, Drunken Master hooked up with Kaos to produce The Drunken EP.  24-7 allows Kold Sweat to top up James Brown’s pension fund; this being around the time that The Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness was well on his way to becoming The Most Sampled Artist in Dance Music.  24-7 features an unmistakable Brown holler, a guitar part and most prominent of all, what appears to be the horn break from Out of Sight. Over all of this, Drunken Master raps a familiar tale of his own brilliance and the good time he can offer to the object of his affections, before signing off with a shout to all the collaborators who came in to help him from “the North, South, East and West”.  Compass points were also cut into the run-out groove of the record.

After playing this track, Peel admitted that it wasn’t the one he had programmed to play.  The alternatives were the Tubular Bells sampling Devil in Disguise or Guillotine.







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