Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five — Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five

Debut LP for the Bronx group Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five, composed by Grandmaster Melle Mel, Scorpio, Cowboy (all in the cousin group Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five yet), King Lou, Kami Kaze, Tommy Gunn, DJ E-Z Mike, Dynamite and Clayton Savage. The minimal funky combined with slightly fickle themes and the exhausting length of this project make the record indifferent to listening just after few minutes. Album that comes out a couple of years later than its time, with a formula that in the meantime has fallen into disuse: the remix of the classic "White Lines" is the only cut that is worth tackling (I don't recommend spending the eight minutes of the only "World War 3", for example), however, this remix seems to be reflected in "The Message", with the difference that here the mirror is dirty and half broken: to me clearly inferior to the original one. 4/10.