I was lookin' for vids of Beautiful People on youtube & found this:
I love the spontaneous music ideas...& cool bass playing!....& I love to watch surfing vids!!
Beautiful People were some tripped out ravers from the UK who jammed mellow RAVE style with Hendrix samples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bD6tux5am0&feature=relatedJimi Hendrix's music briefly went into the public domain in the early nineties, and this UK electronic band gained permission to sample at will. Could have been a really cool idea, if say Bill Laswell had been behind it. Shortly after "If 60s Were 90s" was released, Jimi's family re-obtained the rights to his catalog and the album was almost instantaneously deleted.
So this isn't one you should have because it is revelatory or anything, but because it's fun, oddball and kind of silly. After all, Jimi once said (and it's reprinted on the digipack), "When I die I want people to just play my music, go wild and freak out, and do anything they wanna do."
After listening to Beautiful People awhile, I invariably wanna blast the Real Deal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOjXPzEjEWY&feature=related
