DJ Kurtis - Haiti Observer Blog

DJ Kurtis Mantronik and MC Tee, a Haitian rapper, met in 1984 at Downtown Records in Manhattan and quickly made a demo, "Fresh Is The Word", which led to being signed by Sleeping Bag Records. "Fresh Is The Word" debuted as a single in 1985 in dance clubs, charting #16 on Billboard's Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, and was included on Mantronix: The Album.

DJ Kurtis Mantronix's music style, on its first album, "defined the new sound of electro-funk." A polyrhythmic combination of electronic drums, synthesizer, vocoder and a synthesized voice hovering over a bass line, it defined electronic music in its purest form.

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