Ghetto Fingers - "On The Move"

(Colin Anderson)

"John Gurney - Drums; Stuart Ross - Keyboards; Colin Anderson - Guitars"

On The Move is a song from the original Grand Theft Auto credited to the fictional band Ghetto Fingers. It was produced by in-house musician Colin Anderson and was the first song that was created for the game that made it to final release. It was meant to showcase to the rest of the team that 60 minutes worth of in-game radio could be pulled off convincingly. The two songs that followed were Grand Theft Auto and Automatic Transmisson, which were produced by Craig Conner and Grant Middleton respectively. The vocal bits in this song were taken from the Zero-G Datafiles sample CDs, with most being from the 3rd release in the series. Despite my many hours into researching the various samples used in this game's soundtrack, all but one of the singers in this track remain unidentified. Colin Anderson did sing on this track, but very briefly.

The full version of this song can be heard on Colin's soundcloud & YouTube channel.

Two early renditions of this song can be heard on Colin's YouTube channel.

As heard in the earliest rendition referenced above, there are two vocal bits and two unidentified "uh uhuh" stabs that were cut at some point prior. The first of the vocal bits being a sample of Loleatta Holloways's infamous "hot temptation/sensation" verse with the second vocal bit being "get on the move", a verse sung by the Jamaica Girls. Despite both being cut due to copyright concern, the latter continued to act as the main inspiration behind the song's name and presentation.

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