{"id":661,"date":"2009-02-06T07:34:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2009-02-06T07:34:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:34:58","slug":"chris-energy-my-vision-is-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Chris Energy &#8211; My Vision is Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Energy did a bunch of singles on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/HNR+Records\">HNR Records<\/a> which are OK but pretty inconsistent. Some of the tracks are good but a lot are are really rough (both soundwise and song-wise). Still, you often see a lot of these HNR Records around for bare cheap, so they&#8217;re worth dropping on a turntable and checking out&#8230;  Chris Energy&#8217;s later stuff on Reinforced is much better though. <br \/>\nHere&#8217;s one of the better (maybe the best?) tune from those early HNR records&#8230; it uses the acapella of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/19740\">Cuba Gooding &#8211; Happiness is Just Around The Bend<\/a>, which was also used in Foul Play &#8220;The Alchemist&#8221;, Naz Aka Naz &#8220;Started Again&#8221;,  and numerous other oldschool tracks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Chris-Energy-Transitional-Rhythms-EP\/release\/261094\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/transitional_rhythms.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Chris Energy - My Vision is Clear.mp3\">Chris Energy &#8211; My Vision is Clear<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-661-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Chris%20Energy%20-%20My%20Vision%20is%20Clear.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Chris%20Energy%20-%20My%20Vision%20is%20Clear.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Chris%20Energy%20-%20My%20Vision%20is%20Clear.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Also, for anyone curious what the original sampled track sounds like:<br \/>\n<object width=\"180\" height=\"180\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V5Spu7XzXhU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V5Spu7XzXhU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Energy did a bunch of singles on HNR Records which are OK but pretty inconsistent. Some of the tracks are good but a lot are are really rough (both soundwise and song-wise). Still, you often see a lot of these HNR Records around for bare cheap, so they&#8217;re worth dropping on a turntable and&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=661\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Energy &#8211; My Vision is Clear<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}