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DJ Barba Q - Move That Barb...

The mid-90s gave us eurodance such as 2 Unlimited, Culture Beat, Cappell... more The mid-90s gave us eurodance such as 2 Unlimited, Culture Beat, Cappella, U96, Maxx, Flexx, Staxx. Some of the first hits I found really good (Snap "Rhythm is a dancer", Culture Beat "Mr Vain") but pretty soon the genre kept repeating itself and suffered from overcommercialization. When there was such good electronic music as Aphex Twin, Moby etc that didn't get half as much attention, I and my friends found this eurodance thing pathetic and felt the need to do something about it.

Young as we were, making parodies on phenomenons came handy (why is this so typical for teenagers?) so pretty soon we had started our own eurodance project (or euro disco as it was called in Sweden). Since the typical lineup was a male rapper and a female singer, often focusing on the male rapper, we copied this concept and formed a group with a rapper (DJ Barba Que, real name Toivo Jokkala), singer (Sheila B.), producer (Cyber Killer, me) and occasional toaster (MC The Mad Toaster, real name Merro Awad). The group took its name from the rapper, just like Captain Hollywood Project or DJ Bobo, so we called ourselves DJ Barba Q. (The "Barba" was sort of an internal school joke whose background is too long to explain here.)

We recorded the track "Move That Barbabody" and from our perspective it was a success; it got talked about over the whole school (many liked it without understanding it was a parody), we performed it live at school parties a few times and we got help to shoot a music video. Part of the success was because of the extravagant rapper who always appeared half naked with sunglasses, even if it was in February like in the music video. Everyone in school knew who he was.

In a typical commercial eurodance way, we followed it up with a very similar track, "Barbabody Wants To Be Moved", which exactly copied the chords of the chorus from the first track. The success failed to come off however, and the album that we released on cassette sold in only 9 copies. The lyrics almost completelely dealt with the importance of moving your body, and the tracks had titles like "U Got 2 Move" (paraphrasing Cappella's "U Got 2 Know" and "U Got 2 Let The Music [move your feet]"). One year later, we tried to make a comeback with the harder form of euro techno exemplified by Scooter, Mark'Oh and Marusha - which we found, if possible, even worse than eurodance - but despite shouting "fucking inspirating hartcore" with a German accent, the one-hit-wonder was a fact.

The tracks were recorded on very primitive equipment totally without computers, using only one keyboard, a microphone, a mixer and some tape machines. The backing tracks were programmed on the keyboard and played from tape, and the rest of the track (all vocals and synth lines) were recorded at the same time in one go. If the rapper said the wrong word then everyone had to start all over again. There were no effects such as compression, chorus, reverb or delay used, and the mixing took place at the same time as the recording - we recorded straight to the master. Consequently of course it's all very demo-ish. So far I have given up the temptation to register a DJ Barba Q MySpace and upload more tracks. One track should be enough.

So here is the music video for "Move That Barbabody". The video was recorded in the city of Linköping, Sweden in February 1995. The part where the rapper speaks in a mobile telephone was almost futuristic at the time.

Today, I have realized that a lot of the 80s disco music that I still love is just as commercial and massproduced (Stock/Aitken/Waterman, Farina/Crivellente...) as eurodance...

Johan Agebjörn a.k.a. Cyber Killer less

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DJ Barba Q - Move That Barbabody (1995)

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