Not Going to a Go-Go

Listening to the sublime, 'The Frog and the Princess' from Grace Jones's 1985 'Slave to the Rhythm' album the other day, I started thinking about Go-Go, the Washington DC take on funk that was briefly fashionable in 85/86 (a number of renowned Go-Go musicians played on the Jones LP). Looking at the entry for Go-Go on Wikipedia, I was surprised to learn not only that this style of music is still being made, but that it is a source of tension between the black community and law enforcement agents and municipal officials in the US capital and surrounds. In March of this year, so the story goes, nine Go-Go clubs in Prince George's County, Maryland, were shut down because of the number of police calls they were generating.
Earlier this decade, Go-Go also spawned a stripped down sub-genre called Bounce Beat. Examples of both contemporary Go-Go and Bounce Beat can be heard via the Washington Post website. And one advantage of downloading these files into Quick Time is you can play around with the speed and pitch control, giving Little Miss Muffit by TimesUp a 1992 'Ardkore style makeover in the process.