New Soul Jazz comp -- BIG APPLE RAPPIN'

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BIG APPLE RAPPIN'
The Early Days Of Hip-Hop Culture In NYC 1979-1982

VOLUME 1 LP:
SPOONIE GEE - SPOONIN' RAP
XANADU - SURE SHOT
BROTHER D & THE COLLECTIVE EFFORT - HOW WE GONA MAKE THE BLACK NATION RISE
GENERAL ECHO - RAPPING DUB STYLE
T SKI VALLEY - CATCH THE BEAT
UNIVERSAL 2 - DANCING HEART
MASTERDON COMMITTEE - FUNKBOX PARTY
COLD CRUSH BROTHERS - WEEKEND

VOLUME 2 LP:
SPYDER D - BIG APPLE RAPPIN'
MR Q - DJ STYLE
THE FLY GUYS - FLY GUYS RAP
SOLO SOUND - GET THE PARTY JUMPIN'
THE JAMAICA GIRLS - ROCK THE BEAT
SUPER 3 - STANDING ON THE TOP
TJ SWANN, PEEWEE MEL & BARRY B - ARE YOU READY
NICE & NASTY 3 - THE ULTIMATE RAP

I'm feeling the track selection. Good mix of the sorta-knowns and the unknowns. Not quite sure what the Jamaica Girls are doing there -- is there rapping on that track?

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Forgot dis:

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

is this the one that johan "krazy legs" kugelberg put together?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah it is, scott.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Who's that fellow?

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Yay, I have been awaiting this.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

For the US, it's already at Dusty Groove: [here]

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

forced exposure should be carrying it soon, i would imagine.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

i mention johan briefly in my random rap manifesto here:

"Random Rap" -vs- "Minimal Synth"

the dude is a zeitgeist missile. god bless him.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

The preservation of the past is due mostly obsessive collectors, be it books or music, and that's the way it will always be.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

This is great. I'd never heard "How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise" before and am in love, love, love with it.

Yes, Confounded, there's rapping on the Jamaica Girls track.

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I love late 70s/early 80s disco band rap tunes that go on for about 9 minutes.

Best track is obviously "spoonin' rap" but "standing on the top" by Super 3 also rules. Nice to get "weekend" on wax without having to pay 40 bucks upwards too

"Ultimate rap" by Nice & Nasty 3 is mad overrated, though.

If you like this sorta stuff then check the album Tuff City put out called "the disco jams" which includes "we rap more mellow" by Younger Generation (aka Furious Five), "lookin' good (shake your body)" by Eddie Cheeba etc.

― LYRICAL MR PERFECT, Friday, 3 March 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

johan is also responsible (or to be blamed however u like to look at it)..for bringing our 7"s to th attention of th matador office where he worked at th time,and subsequently cheerleading enuff to arouse cosloy to sign us for 1 lp..

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 3 March 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

"or to be blamed"

definitely blamed.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 3 March 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

i wish they'd reissue j saul kane's "beat classic" compilation (DC, 2005) with the vocals (it's mostly instrumental versions)

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

beat classic is totally classic, and in a few cases I prefer the instrumentals. Or at least, it's nice having Funky instrumental, though I love the non-instrumental.

Johan-Killed By Death, Onion Records, V-3's Photograph Burns (greatest rock record of the 90s), Os Mutantes reissues, Omplatten, for starters. I've heard some of the music he's been producing and it was really good.

So much of that disco hip-hop has been repressed recently and I love it all.

Search: Jazzy Three-Rappin' Spree

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

I like it a lot, but then I am a well-known complete sucker for this kind of thing. "Black Nation" is one of the best singles ever.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

its cool but it does sound like one long song listening to this album. how did people tell all these tracks apart back in the early 80s?

― okok, Saturday, 4 March 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

huh? this comp has a huge range. How does the dubby General Echo cut sound like Spoonie Gee?

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Saturday, 4 March 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I wish the Funky Four Plus One's "That's the Joint" was available on a US cd. I think it might be still available elsewhere on a 2001 release(it is listed at allmusic.com but not at amazon's us site)

― curmudgeon (Steve K), Saturday, 4 March 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

^ Can't you get "that's the joint" on any of the "best of Sugarhill Records" cds that are out there or various tacky "best of old skool" compilations ???

― LYRICAL MR PERFECT, Saturday, 4 March 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

'that's the joint' is on "That's My Beat" a soul Jazz comp. put together by Mantronix.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Sunday, 5 March 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

btw - that mantronix comp is going for a fiver in the london soul jazz shop at the mo. I reckon its one of the best comps they've ever done, so idon't really understand it - i suppose its down to the fact that so many of the tracks appear on other comps now.

i love this new comp too - disco rapping stuff is fantastic!

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Sunday, 5 March 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=25UBPPRHD3Y531GXRC4A8XR6R5

Jazzy Three-Rappin' Spree

But if a sucker like you just tries to bite, we're gonna send you right back to the rappers delight...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I just got the quad vinyl from Boomkat. It's lovely.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=20710

― Leeroy, Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

That mantronix cd IS great! My first introduction to that Machine song.

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 5 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

"That's the Joint" is on the Sugarhill box set as well I see, thanks. Allmusic and Amazon US have just not cross-referenced that Funky Four Plus One song under either the Sugarhill box or That's My Beat, the Soul Jazz comp mentioned above.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 6 March 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Dan for the Jazzy Three, I'd never heard it before. I love how disco raps are 8 to 10 minutes long.
Here's another one: Rappin All Over-The Marvelous Three And Younger Generation
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3NOM9L8T2DUEN1VM3J1BTQ84CV

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

^ That's a dope track. Busy Bee's vinyl debut.

― LYRICAL MR PERFECT, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I like it a lot, but then I am a well-known complete sucker for this kind of thing.

*raises hand*

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0LFZT7X5219612FTTHYAYY8ICZ

Kool Moe Dee vs. Busy Bee at the Harlem World, Manhattan, NY.

If you haven't heard this...it's amazing. Kool Moe Dee blows Busy Bee away.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

how cool ist johan, eh?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Busy Bee was out of his league. I'm going to keep this going. Here another one

One Time Two Time Blow My Mind-MC Rock Lovely
http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2TUNI40LWIXCC0QNY6NJGJG3Z6

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

I do think we need to give props to P&P's Super Rap and Heroes & Villains' Harlem World: The Sound of Big Apple Rappin' comps here as well. The former is lesser and the latter is equal to the Soul Jazz album and are very much worth hunting down.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

P&P's Super Rap is where I first heard Fly Guy's Rap, amazing track.

xpost, i've heard that Harlem Word battle before, it's great when Busy goes "Shut up, SHUT UP"

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

Happy Birthday y'all

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pp9e82

― David V (grammy), Sunday, 22 October 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

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