From Kent Williams Sent Tue, Oct 20th 1998, 21:25
From Kent Williams Sent Tue, Oct 20th 1998, 21:25
I hesitate to recommend the Sugarhill Gang records as they do sound kind of dated at this time; but tracks like "Rapper's Delight" and "The Message" still get me off. There were some really cool records done back in the day by Tom Tom Club, which was people from Talking Heads working in the hip-hop genre that are absolute musts. Beyond that, Biz Markie, Kool Mo Dee, Stetsasonic, etc. There is a very cool record I picked up in Rotterdam -- Stetsasonic's "Talking All That Jazz" which features the original track + a 'Bonus Breaks and Edits' (a must for any beat miner, these are fresh as hell!) and an absolutely lovely jazzy house remix by Dimitri from Paris (Dim's Respect for the Old School). This is supposedly a single from a new Tommy Boy compilation "Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats" which would be essential as well. On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, laerm wrote: > 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! > > * > #### > a disturbance in a system. #### > laerm. @voicenet.com ##:# > i nostri sogni sono sempre presenti >