The 900 Number

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...is a track by DJ Mark The 45 King which seems to enjoy classic status in old school hip-hop circles. What do you think of it?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 2 September 2002 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, it's a bit minimal isn't it...?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 2 September 2002 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha i have the 45 king record its from and besides two okayish tracks with mc lakim shabazz its all tracks of five minute unchanging beats!! nine hundred number is clearly the best of them though theres a cool organ loop that sticky fingaz used once and a funk guitar burner towards the end that was on the brainfreeze mix

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Lakim Shabazz!!!

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

haha andy are you down with the FLAVOR UNIT

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That's on the same comp I just picked up with the 900 Number!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I no longer roll with the Flavor but I just bumped Black Is Back the other day.

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got the 45King track on a comp called 'Hip Hop Don't Stop' - its also got 'It Takes Two' by Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock on it, which I sort've class in the same category - ie gd but slightly overrated hip-hop 'classics'...

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 2 September 2002 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

if i'm right, and i may not be, the rob base and ezrock track wasn't perceived as a classic at the time, but has sort of become one, in a bit of the old revisonism thing

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 2 September 2002 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

its killer bubblegum dnb if you actually play it on forty five!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 2 September 2002 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

nine hundred number i mean

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 2 September 2002 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

simon, it was actually sampled in hardcore classic, "weird energy," so you are correct.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 2 September 2002 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

it just makes me think of the ed lover dance. i'm not sure how i feel about that - leaning towards poorly

― ron (ron), Monday, 2 September 2002 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

best beat ever. i even like "let me clear my throat", that song that recyled the 900# a few yrs back.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 2 September 2002 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

it just cannot be the best beat ever. you would go insane if you had to listen to it for more than five minutes.

― ron (ron), Monday, 2 September 2002 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

there should be a best beat ever thread

― ron (ron), Monday, 2 September 2002 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i was fairly surprised when i downloaded the track and it was just that loop over and over again,more or less...
i saw lenny dee mixing a few weeks ago in dublin and he played a gabber/hardcore remix of it,i presume that must be the track "weird energy" that jess mentions upthread...like the original,it's a good laugh but not really the sort of thing i'd listen to sitting around my house...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

the loop in "weird energy" is chopped and fucked with considerably, so it's not really immediately noticable. (well, i mean it is, but not like, ed lover dance noticable.)

was the track you heard more breakbeaty or 4/4 robin?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm,it wasn't really chopped up or fucked with much...at the time i presumed it was just the original mixed with gabber,(for some reason gabber djs are always trying to mix it with hip hop(appearenly hip hop is about half the speed)although the only person i've seen who has really been able to pull it off with any degree of success was mike paradinas)..it was only because i saw the reference to a hardcore remix of the 900 number that i assumed that was what i heard..

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that record, but mainly because of the circumstances in which I acquired my own copy: at an al fresco flea market in a Motor Vehicles Administration parking lot in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The seller was a DJ from back in the day who was divesting himself of his old tool kit. I think maybe I paid a buck for it. That was a good record shopping day.

― Lee G, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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