Ghetto Fingers - "On The Move"
Written and produced by 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 in-house by musician Colin Anderson and was the first to be created for the games soundtrack. It was meant to showcase to the rest of the team that a 60 minute soundtrack 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 defining 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, all but one of the singers in the track remain unidentified. Colin did sing on this track, albiet 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 vocal stabs that were cut at some point in the songs development. 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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