From Chris Fahey Sent Mon, Oct 19th 1998, 22:10
From Chris Fahey Sent Mon, Oct 19th 1998, 22:10
>what with the recent old-school electro recommendations, it only follows
>suit to ask this question: what are some good albums/comps of old-school
>hip-hop? even the big hits, grandmaster flash, kurtis blow, sugarhill
>gang, etc. i ashamed to admit my collection boasts no hip-hop pre-1987.
>time to correct that. thanks!
There's this four-volume set on Tommy Boy which just came out and it's
all about New York Electro funk and early hip hop. "The Perfect Beats (New
York electro Hip Hop+ Underground Dance Classics 1980 - 1985)" An example of
its almost scholarly completeness is that it contains Trans Europe Express,
Numbers, *and* Planet Rock. Runs the gamut from no-wave to new wave, from
Pebbles to Cybotron to Art of Noise to Sugar Hill Gang.
I don't own it yet, but I'm definately picking it up soon. I'm not a DJ
(so I couldn't justify tracking all this shit down on vinyl) but I know all
these tracks very well from when I was a wee one listening to late-night
Power99, the R&B station in Philly (where I grew up).
WARNING - all you dyed in the wool funk-, house-, 'n diva- haters out
there (and I know you're there!) should beware - this comp contains music
made in the days before electro was "discovered" (read: co-opted) and
reinvented as IDM by people with tight bootys .
- Cf
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