Pool - Dance It Down / Jamaica Running - 12-INCH SINGLE [12 inch Vinyl Single]

PATRICK KEEL is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and performer. THE POOL was his solo project, the sum of fifteen years of experience in live bands, studios, and home recording. Patrick was heavily influenced by the radio of the early and mid 1960s in Dallas. The British bands and Black soul of the era gave him a distinct style, and shaped his musical attitude. The New Wave/Punk/D.I.Y. attitudes of the late 1970s inspired him to express himself in a new way. 1980 saw the of InchPool One,Inch a sixty minute home-produced cassette. InchPool TwoInch followed in 1981, which received much praise and little distribution. In 1982 he released a 5-song self-titled vinyl EP of tight, skeletal, synthetic dance music. In 1983, InchDance It Down/Jamaica RunningInch 12Inch EP was released on Moment Productions. Based on response from D.J.'s in New York and the Bronx, Patrick went back in the studio and remixed two songs from the self-titled EP for rapping, scratching and break dancing. InchJamaica RestingInch was sped-up, extended, and reconfigured as InchJamaica Running.Inch The whirlpool synth-strut of InchDance It DownInch came out of the studio as InchDance In Dub.Inch with a heavier kick and extended dub outro. These spacious versions were optimal for DJ play, slotting regularly in sets at hip clubs like Danceteria. For this reissue we've added two bonus European remixes from the 1984 12Inch of InchDance It Down/Jamaica Running,Inch released on Nunk records from Belgium. Both songs employ the use of a Boss DR-55, Korg MS-20, Korg PolySix, and a Prophet 5, and were mixed on a 16- track Ampex recorder. The Pool's spartan, self-assured songs are experiments you can dance to. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The record comes housed in a newly designed jacket by Eloise Leigh, updating the magenta and blue grid and