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Funky Green Dogs
SUPER CALIFORNIA
(TWISTED)

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Not California at all, despite the presence of the title track, the first set from Miami’s Oscar Gaetan and Ralph Falcon — a/k/a the Murk Boys — since 1998 doesn’t go anywhere that this DJ duo haven’t already been, but you won’t mind a bit. Nobody writes more soulfully righteous house music than Gaetan and Falcon, and no current diva sings it more fiercely than Tamara, the first-name-only newcomer vocalist who — with the help of their garage-style percussion and deep-house bass lines — brings the pain, the frustration, and the horniness of house music straight to the point. Tamara’s best songs, "Hesitation," "Rise Up," "Pain," and the truly blazing "Free," sound as sharp as a finger pointing and as joyous as she wants to be. Which, given the sexy purr of the house rhythms underneath her, she is nothing less than compelled to be, to testify to, and — in the absolutely anthemic "Free" — to exult over.

BY MICHAEL FREEDBERG

Issue Date: March 14 - 21, 2002
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