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Sigma
02-20-2012, 12:59 AM
2 examples I can think of are...........

I was 17 in 1987. I used to listen to Mike Allen's radio show which was one of the few ways I'd get to hear the latest hip-hop tracks (the Internet was still years away, haha). I can remember the first time I heard this song. I was playing football with some friends at a local park and I looked at my watch and saw it had just turned 9 PM which is when Mike Allen's show used to start, so I cycled home as fast as I could, turned on the radio, and this tune played. While lots of hip-hop tracks had sampled Funky Drummer, nothing had ever sounded like this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0b0jIaCEHU

This one was released in 1989. I remember buying the 12" in a local record store and playing Doomsday of Rap and thinking "WTF???". The DJs, Undercover and Supreme had some of the maddest scratch styles I've ever heard and production-wise, this sounded like nothing else in the British hip-hop scene back then.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArM963zlUnY

dlove
02-20-2012, 01:21 AM
Cool Thread Sigma :tup:

the 1st time I heard London Posse, I thought 'at last! British accents'

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shocase241
02-21-2012, 02:48 PM
De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising Album....IMO changed the sampling game!

dlove
02-24-2012, 07:01 AM
De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising Album....IMO changed the sampling game!

Yeah! Totally ahead of their time, De La Soul.

dlove
02-24-2012, 07:04 AM
Afrika Bambaataa's The Daddy

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c-hawk
02-24-2012, 07:24 AM
Da horns man!
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And how many times have lines from this track been used over the decades!
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Sween
02-24-2012, 07:58 AM
A few of my favorite which really changed things for me...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeO3U1i3hCU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DphkDgAMKqY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHEl1HiybQo&feature=fvst


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnje0it1dN0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-j-DCz_V3U

dlove
02-24-2012, 09:05 AM
Yeah Sween, Gang Starr's Immense - shaped my musical life.

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Les Braun
02-24-2012, 09:58 AM
http://youtu.be/QlYvSUYki8A

fondle 'em fossil

Les Braun
02-24-2012, 10:11 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW17mVZqnjI
1991


http://youtu.be/-LEp3WHOBT8
also '91 i think

I also think the Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde and the 93' til Infinity record from Souls of Mischief were ahead of their time!

...and definitely Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers!

shocase241
02-24-2012, 02:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAlsaFKtHuU

sense
02-25-2012, 09:49 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1Emb7Jyks


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2O-JOXG_I&feature=related

brawny
02-26-2012, 03:28 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXpyMtvi1as&feature=fvst

Sigma
02-26-2012, 03:55 PM
Pretty much every track on this LP, which was released in 1985: -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRQk--GIo-k


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G29wY_Jtzsg

GaFFLe
02-26-2012, 05:07 PM
On the choices thus far, I'd give it to the PE "Rebel Without a Pause" and the Mantronix.

I first heard the PE joint my freshman year in college. I was going to the cafeteria for dinner and some guy had his boom box posted in his dorm window. I heard this repetitive screaching noise as was thinking... "WTF is this dope noise ?!?!?!?"

I'd also have to add:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrTfI3f_WLM

No one was rhymin' like Rakim at the time. He definitely raised the bar.

DJ INDICA JONES
03-01-2012, 01:37 AM
I remember when i worked at a grocery store in Arizona many years ago. And after we closed my manager told me to check out this cassette he just got. We were leaving in the parking lot and checked it out in his truck. It was the very first Beastie Boys album "License to Ill". I was blown away. I wound up buying it the next day at this spot called "Zia's", grabbed it on vinyl and had that record on re-play all day. I would say these guys were way ahead of their time. It was different than anything else that was out there. But as a DJ now, I always remember "Rodney-O and Joe Cooley" as some of the dopest scratching and hard hitting beats I had ever heard. It was so amazing. No one scratched like DJ Cooley. I was so caught up in this dudes way of scratching that i just couldn't believe what I was hearing. Most DJ's now, can't scratch like DJ Cooley can.

But, here is a sick vid Jazzy Jay and Afrika teaching some kids how to scratch. Oh and watch the end for one of the Beasties (not going to spoil who it is) as a kid. Look how young little Beastie was when they had music on the radio, as he asks that question on this vid. Like I said, way before their time.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpIKX1sxFoQ