Electro Funk Tribute To Miami Vice
Don Johnson (left) and Philip Michael Thomas (right) This is my 2013 imaginary electro funk soundtrack to eighties TV-series ‘Miami Vice’, starring Don Johnson (Sonny Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo Tubbs). Johnson typically wore thousand dollar Versace and Hugo Boss suits over pastel cotton t-shirts, drove a Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona (really a replica kit on a 1981 Corvette chassis), followed by a Ferrari Testarossa and lived on a 40-foot Endeavour yacht with his pet alligator, Elvis. ‘Miami Vice’ was noted for its revolutionary use of music, cinematography, imagery, and its glitzy take on the police drama genre. One of the tracks is from Sunfire's self titled and only album: Sunfire is probably the least heralded and hardest to come by project of Reggie Lucas, former Miles Davis band member and production partner of percussionist Mtume, whom he met whilst they both played for Davis. His best known work probably being Madonna's 1983 debut album. I love the ...