Vinyl’s revenge
The ‘You’re Gonna Get Yours’/’Miuzi Weighs A Ton’/’Rebel Without A Pause’ single was the first record I ever owned, and the idea of the following video concept being shot in 1987 or 2027 would be equally inspiring. A lot better than watching them walk around London, that’s for dang sure. Click each image for a…
Considering how influential Pink Floyd have been to popular music, it’s a little surprising how few rap songs have sampled them. Even more unfortunate is the fact that very few of that small group are any good. Here are eleven examples to consider in this tribute to the pointless listicles that once ruled the shitty…
Sadly I do not own this VHS tape. I recently copped the Music On Vinyl 2LP pressing of the immortal Penicillin On Wax, thinking it would be great to give my battered old copy a rest and enjoy the wisdom of Timothy Blair in all of it’s wide-grooved glory. Imagine my shock and horror when…
This is the old Leg And A Boot version. Not so long ago I compiled a wish-list of old rap records that I’d gladly shell out for (new money for old rope style) once again. Over the last month or so, I’ve noticed that both MCA and Priority have chosen to release 2LP version of…
No idea how this one slipped past me for the twenty two years. Produced by Jae Supreme.
After spending the best part of two days looking for R&B songs with Biz rapping on them (and almost buying that Aja jam from iTunes because it’s nowhere else on the internets but stopping myself just in time because I was slipping into some kind of madness), I wound up with around forty guest spots…
When Shock G and co. combined the drums from Parliament’s ‘Theme From The Black Hole‘ and Sly and the Family Stone’s ‘Sing A Sample Song‘ to create the dancefloor genius that is ‘The Humpty Dance’ beat, little did they know that inspired piece of sampling would be jacked by no less than 125 other rap…
At some point in every rap fan’s life, there comes the day when you have pretty much every album worth owning but realize that all those late eighties and early ninties albums that were designed to fill up a 74 minute compact disc were doomed to whisper-quiet single vinyl pressings that you could only hear…
This was a tip sent in by Michael, via a Philly Flava forum rip taken from a Crates of JR post – the original version of Kool G Rap and DJ Polo’s ‘Keep It Swingin’,’ a track that wound up as an inferior remix on the Rated XXX compilation in much the same way as…
Another sure-shot treat from Troy L’s tape collection, demonstrating how advanced DJ Whiz Kid’s turntable techniques were in 1981. Part 2:
Here’s a soundtrack to yesterday’s interview, presented in approximately chronological order. Download: A Salute To Pumpkin
You Toober Umberto -Fab- Lampasona loves himself some test pressings, and this one is a doozy – a vaulted 1988 remix of Lord Shafiq’s debut single from the year before. We only get the first three and a half minutes, but it’s an interesting revision of the classic ‘Nautilus’ loop of the original regardless.