The finest in TDK-based memories
This is a weird one. The cynical part of my brain tells me that Marley Marl is deliberately messing with Ced-Gee and the crew here, as he acts as if he’s never heard an Ultramagnetic record before in his life – despite the fact that they’ve been making some serious noise since 1986 with ‘Ego…
If you don’t know the Ride The Rhythm album by heart then I’m not sure that we can be associates, let alone friends. Hearing this rough mix of Rob’s ‘Dope Rhymes’ has made my year. Download: Chill Rob G – Dope Rhymes (original demo version) Thanks again to Wilizm for putting me onto this incredible…
Here’s another one I used to rock the shit out of when a kid from my street got his hands on some Red Alert and Chuck Chillout radio tapes. I left the Black Rock and Ron and Latee promos in there because why wouldn’t you? Download: D-Nice – Call Me D-Nice (original version)
One of these dudes is G. Wiz I guess. Captain G. Wiz was a member of the Mighty Mike Masters, who held it down with Freddy B for the memorable ‘The Main Event’ and the not-quite-as-great ‘The Main Event (Round 2)’, plus that single they did with Ced-Gee and Paul C. (‘We’re Back’/’Coolin’ On The…
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…
Big shout to Irish Craig for lacing me with these and saving me buying a tape I can’t even play until I figure out where I left my Sony Megabass Walkman. Interesting to note that they brought back the Force MD’s a few years before Ghostface did it as well.
Here’s a vintage interview with Just-Ice from 1988 with the late, great Mike Allen. Just talks about his fronts, Sade and a single called ‘Poison’ which never came out. Courtesy of the P Brothers’ tape collection.
Another sure-shot treat from Troy L’s tape collection, demonstrating how advanced DJ Whiz Kid’s turntable techniques were in 1981. Part 2:
Unlike Cold Crush Brother‘s ‘Punk Rock Rap,’ this vaulted Cosmic Force entry into the ‘punk rap’ canon is redeemed by a lack of fake cockney accents, the always reliable vocoder and the fact that it interpolates Michael McDonalds’ ‘I Keep Forgetting‘ 13 years before Dr. Dre’s stepbrother Warren G enlisted Nate Dogg to give it…
From the collection of J – Blast, Operator Emz edit. Great trolling from Doug at the start of this. Spotted at ego trip.
The original 5ive-0 Posse, not to be confused with the weak 5ive-0 crew from 1994, dropped an entertaining LP in 1989 on Sue Records which dealt with the concerns of a rapper and a DJ who just happened to work for the New York City Police Department. Making it clear that they weren’t soft just…
Stretch Armstrong recently dropped the latest article in his always enjoyable Cassette Culture series over at Cuepoint, providing an essential retrospective of the art of tape editing, while also providing a recording of a classic Latin Rascals mix from 1985. The shit these dudes were doing with reels of tape and a razor blade was…