strafe ("set it off") c/d

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haven't heard 'set it off' in 6 years or so, but i imagine it would still hold up well.

all i know about him is a short piece that appeared in spin magazine (during the first year of its existence, before it turned to shit)...it was intriguing, said he was selling the singles out of the trunk of his car, and that he had an lp in the works that sampled led zepplin and other rock stuff

so whaddya think? whaddya know?

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

A great, weird, anomalous dance record by someone I know nothing about and prefer to keep that way for fear that biography would in this case ruin the fantasy that it just dropped down from Mars or something. In this way, it occupies the same spot in my heart that "House Music for All" by Blunted Dummies does.

― s woods, Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

but this is ye old walter gibbons, no?

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"but this is ye old walter gibbons, no?"

Gibbons recorded the original "Set It Off', and Strafe's is a cover version. Supposedly there were a couple of cover versions appearing only a while after Gibbons' original(!)

I downloaded the version on Gabba.net and, even though it sounds like the Strafe version I know and love, there's still something wierdly different about the mix. Anyone know if this is an alternate mix or somethin'?

I remember a video for "Set It Off". It used to play on the old "NY Hot Tracks" video show here in NYC on ABC in the early '80s. Strafe looked like a mix between something off the Mothership and a Zylon warrior. Had a skunk stripe down the middle of his strange Wolverine-looking 'do, dark sunglasses, black leather and danced around lip-syncing to the song as video trails (a la the "Planet Rock" video) shadowed his body. Heavy.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't he also blind, or near-blind -- and a photographer at that? Or am I thinking of someone else?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

At the kiddie disco that M*by used to DJ at (of course there's no disparaging tone; I never missed a night!), he played this all the time. I liked it a lot back then.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

the harlequin 4's version of this (the gibbons-mixed original, present and correct on the playgroup dj-kicks) just SLAYS.

"y'all want this party started quickly... right?"

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

i listened to another Strafe 12" this weekend (forget the title) but passed on it.

any word on youtubing that video?

― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

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