Black Riot – A Day In The Life (1988)

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Todd Terry was prolific in 1988: The Todd Terry Project’s ‘To The Batmobile Let’s Go’ and their ‘Weekend’, plus Orange Lemon’s ‘Dreams Of Santa Anna’, Royal House’s ‘Can You Party’ and its hip house reworking, Jungle Brothers’ ‘I’ll House You’. But the pick of the year was Black Riot’s ‘A Day In The Life’. His use of fragments of Yello, Manu Dibango, Sequal and Peech Boys pressings demonstrated his supreme ear and technique. And then throw in that much copied synth riff and you have a bona fide classic. ‘Todd The God’ put the track out on Fourth Floor Records which was licensed in the UK on the beloved Champion Records.