REWiND!

It’s been a long time and no writing. That was because I didn’t have a Laptop. I crashed my old one in a stupid attempt to get in a car very quick…secret agent style you know…and bam, there goes the laptop. But now I’m back with a new one. It’s faster, better and if it could it would hook me up with some breakfast every morning, but i think I need to get it updated first. I’m lovin’ it. Anyway, most of you won’t know this, but I do play the Bass. Thats why I keep checking out all different kinds of Bassplayers. One of my favorites right now is Meshell Ndegeocello. A friend of mine told me I should check her out (in a musical way alright) and I instantly got hooked on her style and way of playing. I started with her first Album „Plantation Lullabies“. I keep on learning the Basslines to her songs and I spin some of them whenever I play anywhere.  And by know I really can’t think of any reason why I told you that I play Bass. I just wanted you to know I think.  So just get into the Groove and get high on Music. I found this performance on Vimeo and I think it pretty much shows what I mean when I say thats some real funky Shit. Wait for the  Basspart at the end…….

Nocturnal Sunshine from Red Hot on Vimeo.

This was the tune back when I was 16 years old and freshly introduced to eastcoast rap. I remember distinctly riding the bus to school pumpin this in my walkman. I really wonder what happenend to the guy although wiki claims that he had a release in 2009… Well I didn’t get that.

Rewind!

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Nine – Lyin’ King

I had a nice discussion with my man rekless about the whole “backpack” thing today – and I hear this one in my head when I talk backpack. Don’t get me wrong I don’t want to imply anything negative with the word, but I can’t seem to help myself but think of this as one of the “backpack anthems” of that time. I still love it, and since the good man Chalie 2na is comin to town on the 9th, I have 2 reasons to post it .

!Rewind

Jurassic 5 – Concrete Schoolyard Clean

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Seriously, I really don’t know what to post today. It’s not that there is not enough great Music out there, but I just can’t think of anything Rap-related that I could post. Mmmmh..but does it really have to be Rap? We could rewind it further in time and just dig out some of that revolution music that made rap happen in the first place.

Thinking of the Forefathers of Rap, one must think of Gil Scott-Heron. He was one of those that braught Ghetto Poetry into the minds of people that didnt have no idea of what it was like over there “where the blacks live”. Well if you are listening to the Track and you are thinking about whats going on in Egypt and what happened in Tunisia it seems like the revolution will be internet-alized and broadcasted…but still not televised! People on the streets of Cairo I salute you. Salam.

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Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

And I still pump the song and I spin it when I’m on the set. The best line in my opinion is : “Ass so fat that you coul see it from the front”. Priceless. And tomorrow we are going to see some of that bootys shaking at the Planet Sports ISPO Party with Rewind and Ghettoblaster Classics. Combinded Forces foe yall.

So to get prepared girl, get something to eat and keep that booty in shape still. And boys you better apreciate that bootymeat….oh my good…I just noticed that this is so stereotype….well then imagine I was white and I’d still like booty……and mos defs song too. And anyway Booty dont know no colour it just feels great and forget it just listen to the song kid!

Mos Def – Ms. Fat Booty

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I’m goin way back on this one. Back to the year 1983. Yeah you read that right. I started doin’ that whole hiphop thing when I was 3 !

My moms older sister has two kids. The – 10 year older than me – boy was my role model for as long as I can remember. He must’ve been about 12 when he started to get into break dance, cause when I got wind of it in ’83, he looked like a pro. ( remember I just turned three, so my judgement was on par !)
Naturally I would wanna do everything he did, and so I started to immitate the whole breakdance thing. I only remember bits and pieces about that time, but what’s actually burned into my mind is the cover of the vinyl he was always playin’ to dance to.

It was Rock Steady Crew’s – “Hey You” 12 inch, which I really liked. Obviously I didn’t have a record player – so what my dear cousin did was to record a cassette with nothing else but this song in a loop. 90 minutes or so… and believe me – I loved it.

I really forgot about this whole song, and that time until I started to get back into hiphop 10 years later, but at the moment I rediscovered this record I was blown away.  BTW the picture above is me dancin in our living room to that exact cassette, and the sole picture of me dancing  - EVER !

!Rewind

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(Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew (Extended Version)

We have been Djing for a long time, and there are Songs, Bands and Lps that you just keep playing because you love to hear them. With Wu Tang its funny because there have been occasions where we played some Wu Tang stuff and the crowd didnt react at all but we loved it. And so did I. But in the last few weeks and Months we start to get reactions again. The Wu is back! So I picked this great tune from their first album 36 chambers to give you some advice for a dirty monday like this: Protect your Neck.

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Wu Tang Clan – Protect ya Neck

Well, didn’t this turn out to be quite profitable for me. There I was totally convinced that I’d never hold this record in my hand… and boom…. wrapped in a huge box it was sitting on my desk just a week ago. My dear friend Kitsune stumbled across one of the rarest records I know of, and what did he do?!? He sent it to me…. THANKS A MILLION !!!

On said record is the Mary J. / Smif N Wessun collaboration track “I Love You”, but it also contains another great remake / collabo song. It’s Mary J’s take on Mary Jane Girls’ classic song “All Night Long” called “Mary Jane”  - say that 3 times fast….
- featuring none other than LL Cool J. Now what I remember the most about this, is the transformer that every-dj and his momma did when the first hook came on ” A A A A A A LLLLLL N I I I I I G H T LONG”….

…..can’t say I didn’t do it as well

!REWIND

Mary J. Blige feat. LL Cool J – Mary Jane Remix Dirty

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A friend of mine asked me …oh my god in my head I’m singin’ “… to say some mc rhymes”. But that was not what he asked for. Anyway he had found this little Video of a guy that had written a Book on Hip Hop. His name is Dan Charnas and his Book is called “The big Payback”. I think some of the Infos are irrelevant, but…i really didn’t know that Rick Rubin founded Def Jam…Sunday Afternoon Stuff Yo!

5 Myths of Hip Hop

This LP i really don’t remember buying. I don’t remember where, nor when or why. But I remember listening to it in the Store and i just flipped. This was so unreal because the guy just puts songs together like little movies or animated films. There is Birdman with his avenger and the Cyberchristclone. The whole Star Wars story in one song and more of this ill type shit. And I completely forgot about this one. So a week ago or so, I was diggin in my crates and picked it out…and I am hooked again. So maybe some of you will get hooked to on the adventures of Phoenix Orion…starting with the audiomovie (wow I think I just invented a new word) Scanners

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Phoenix Orion – Scanners