Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It 1993

The producer of one of the biggest dance hits of the '90s, "I Like to Move It" -- plus a half-dozen other Top 20 hits in Great Britain -- Reel 2 Real is masterminded by Erick Morillo, a New York DJ who sought to combine the energy of Latin-house music with reggae rhythms and textures. Morillo, who is of Columbian and Dominican heritage, began DJing in his early teens and studied production at New York's Center of Media Arts. After working on remixes for several reggae singles, he teamed up with a toaster, the General, for "Muevelo," a platinum-selling single popular in Latin communities. Another big mover on the dancefloors, "The New Anthem/Funk Buddha," brought him the attention of the Strictly Rhythm label. Signed to the label and introduced to the Trinidad-born vocalist Mad Stuntman (aka Mark Quashie), Morillo formed Reel 2 Real and released the group's first single, "I Like to Move It," in 1993.

Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It 1993

We like to move it, move itYou like to move it, move itI like.. Oh, I did I. Have I done I? I I think I did I like toI think I did I like.. "We"? What about "we"? "They"? "They"? I did "they" as well, okay

I like to move it, move itHe like to move it, move itShe like to move it, move it We like to move it, move itThey like to move it, move itYou like to move it, move it

Not before I left. There were small things, but there was nothing that resembled anything like that. We did that sort of work elsewhere. I think in my story about Leiden, I talked about digitizing a lot of stuff, and that went by means of an electric typewriter--one of the first electronic typewriters. On the back of the carriage, I equipped it with a row of contacts, and as the carriage moved, new contacts were made. I think it was a triple row of contacts. You could make three contacts at the same time. That fed into itself, so you would type the name of a star in there, and when you came to the end of the name of the star, it was on the next contact, and that contact would feed to the telescope, put in the necessary filter, and having done that, would send a signal back which started the next letter, which made a jump. That started the observation. The observation was done. When the observation was done, after so many seconds it would move the typewriter again, and the typewriter would then type out, read through another two of those contacts, the output of the digital voltmeter that read the integrated energy of the star, and so on. By the time you were finished with one observation, there was a line of 80 characters which had all the information that you wanted, and you could start with your next star.

Electronic backend, in other words, very fast moving telescopes, nice telescopes. So what they do is they move the telescope to where they think the satellite is, they find the satellite, they track the satellite, they move the telescope at the speed of which the satellite goes, reads the coordinates on the telescope, and say, "That's where the satellite is." While they're tracking the satellite, the stars become streaks, and that's always a nuisance. How the hell could you get rid of those stars? That would be really nice. That's a nuisance.

Includes coverage of a Martin Luther King pitch reel (CBS NY file); United Airlines planes in Denver, Colorado; SSI Food Services meat grinding company in Wilder, Idaho (KBCI); Precision Tools Company; the Inauguration Day wind storm in 1993; and Better Meat Inc.

Includes coverage of jail confession taping (KOIN); Archbishop George (KOIN); the image of the Virgin Mary on a road sign (KIMA); Everett Tire Fire (KSTW); "Car Seat Survivor" infant who lived through a fatal accident (KOIN): Oregon Tax Center (KTVL); inmates at the Yakima County Jail (KIMA); King County Jail file (KSTW); school bus fire (KTVL); tulips in the Skagit Valley, Washington (KSTW); an infant kidnapping from Pasco to Seattle, Washington (KSTW, KIRO, and KEPR); the Space Needle's 35th birthday, new mascot, and countdown to the year 2000; a green crab invasion in Oregon (KCBY); flesh-eating bacteria (KSTW); graffiti in Hawaiian cemeteries (KGMB); U.S. Bank bomber pitch reel (KREM); MS [Microsoft?] real eastate and Bill Gates's meeting with German Minister Gerhard Schroder (CBS); the escape of Russian mafia inmates from the King County Jail; Tooele incinerator file; childbirth and home delivery (CBS); and the Amtrak "Flexliner," a Danish-built hi-tech passenger train described as a cross between a bus and a plane. 041b061a72