Year : 1969
Label : KPM
Genre : Jazz, Funk/Soul
Style : Beat, Easy Listening, Soul Jazz
KPM is the most famous british music libary label specialized in background music for TV shows, films & advertising. The Big Beat (KPM No. 1044) is among the most popular recording of the KPM 1000 series including various tracks composed by Keith Mansfield & Alan Hawkshaw whose three extracted from The Champ album by the Alan Hawkshaw group's The Mohawks ("Rocky Mountain Runabout", "Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue" & "Senior Thump"). Keith Mansfield is a conductor, arranger and composer in charge of many soundtracks and background music for various British TV's shows. He collaborated with Dusty Springfield, american Jazz songstress Salena Jones or trumpeter Maynard Fergusson. Alan Hawkshaw is a keyboardist best known as former member of The Shadows during the seventies and session musician for David Bowie, The Rolling Stone or French singer Serge Gainsbourg ("Vu De L'Extérieur", Rock Around The Bunker & "L'homme A Tête De Choux"). A lot of KPM materials produced by Mansfield & Hawkshaw have been sampled by U.S. Hip-Hop artists (Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, Madlib, Gnarls Barkley among others) and recycled by cinema such as "Move, Move, Move" (Hawkshaw) in "Nacho Libre" in 2006 or "The Astro Daters" (Mansfield) in "Kill Bill".
SIDE A : Keith Mansfield - Exclusive Blend / Alan Hawkshaw - Studio 69 / Alan Hawkshaw - Work Out / Alan Hawkshaw - Rocky Mountain Runabout / Alan Hawkshaw - Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue / Alan Hawkshaw - Roving Reporter / Alan Hawkshaw - Senior Thump / Alan Hawkshaw - Tap Footer
SIDE B : Keith Mansfield - Teenage Travelogue / Keith Mansfield - Teenage Ton Up / Alan Hawkshaw - Delivery Date / Alan Hawkshaw - A Touch Of Nonsense / Alan Hawkshaw - Man On The Move / Keith Mansfield - The Mexican D.J. / Alan Hawkshaw - Debsville / Keith Mansfield - Red Square Stomp
