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The Mint 400

from Music From The Mint Hotel by Hakim Jamal

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Isaac Hayes-inspired low-down and dirty bass riff with haunting strings and a spaced-out feel. Original version can be found on the album 'In My Mind.'

‘They sent him out here on this perfectly reasonable assignment – just a few photos of motorcycles and dune buggies racing around the desert – and now he was plunged, without realizing it, into the maw of some world beyond his ken. There was no way he could possibly understand what was happening. What were we doing out here? Was I just roaming around these Mint Hotel escalators in a drug frenzy of some kind or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? This song, adapted from the track ‘Illuminate’ tells the story of life on the Vegas Strip, from which is launched the infamous ‘Mint 400’ road race; and which come the weirdos who attend it: ‘a society of armed masturbators. Gambling is the kicker here - sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers … house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.’

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from Music From The Mint Hotel, released March 31, 2023

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Hakim Jamal Manchester, UK

The music created by Paul Ashley Wheatcroft is inspired by 70s artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. English musician Paul signed for Big Life/Polygram and is published by Universal Music.His new incarnation is a collective called The Mint 400. ... more

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