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On the A side Misjah delivers a heavyweight bomb that cannot be ignored with clever use of the main synth line with heavy 303s and walloping drums. On the flip WJH uses DK8 like bass synth bass sounds and similar heavyweight percussion and huge breaks to achieve maximum dance floor impact. Dewey "Pigmeat" Markhan was one of the only African-American performers to break the color barrier and perform in the then segregated world of Big Time Burlesque.

And of course it was in the Minsky's show that he led the way. Prior to that he was a big star on the black vaudeville for the Theatre Owners and Bookers Association, which was called the TOBA circuit. It had only black entertainers and played to black audiences.

It was mainly through the Deep South but there were also TOBA houses in Chicago, Baltimore, Washington DC, St. Louis and Kansas City. The world-famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem was a member of the chain.

Mr. Markham was king of the comics at the Apollo. He was a big raucous comedian who's speciality was courtroom scenes.

This is a project involving rappers and other artists in a collective. It gained some mainstream attention back in their native Sweden. The tracks themselves on this one off single are typical Cari influenced with dubby basslines and hooky riffs punctauted with catchy vocal snippets.

There is also a video for "No cammo". Leader Dennis Dragon, who produced soundtrack LP's for surf movies throughout the 1970's, decided that the time had come to wed surf music with the newly emerging punk movement. What actually resulted on the Surf Punk's first LP was a bizarre musical hybrid of punk, surf, protest avant garde electronic music.

Originally released on their own Day-Glo Records, the LP was soon picked up by Epic Records sold more than 25,000 units in the L.A. area alone.

However; any band that performs its live shows with one of its members sitting on a lifegaurd tower is not going to endear itself to a major coprate conglomerate like Columbia. In early 1980 Harold Bronson of Rhino Records asked Tom Brown, a local drummer from Los Angeles to gather a few local musicians together. The intent was to lay down some tracks for a style of music many thought to be dead.

What they came up with was a whole new approach to the ideals of instrumental surf music. The was heavily influenced dy Dick Dale - including naming themselves after one of his most popular songs, "The Wedge" which is actually a famous Newport Beach body surfing spot.