DJ Cash Money broke down the story behind this timeless piece of audio on Facebook yesterday.
DJ Cash Money: Wow my man Too Tuff just sent me this…I haven’t heard this in years…The Cash Money Echo Scratch on Lady B’s Show…..Talk about taking me back? I remember the day after this was on the radio..I would hear everyone blasting this out of their cars…”Jerome is the King”…JJJJJerome is the jigajigajiga King….Hahahahahaha….I have to show what i did that scratch on….Classic Times!!!!
I used this machine to do this scratch…I turned this sideways and put masking tape on the delay fader so i couldn’t go up on the volume….Those were the days when you had to really think on being creative…The technology wasn’t there yet..So hearing this will always have a special place in my heart because this was the beginning of me starting to get recognized for what i do today….This was late 80’s….
Nice piece, brings back memmories of the old beatbox with presets , programming and punching in and out on tape, and old pyramid mixer with rabbit kill switches and a big volume meter bouncing all over the place.
I remember this.
The good ol days.
Dope shit, if 99% of crap music writers weren’t fucking retards we could draw lines relating this to the furthest out Jamaican dub one side and some of the weird ass electronic post-punk beat noise from Europe– a rich era of new sounds.