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Qui di seguito potete leggere un’interessante articolo del 1986, tratto da RM Hip Hop Magazine, che descrive la scena hip hop di quegli anni. Buona lettura.

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"THE ROOTS OF HIP HOP" – RM HIP HOP MAGAZINE 1986

In the beginning there was Africa, and it is from Africa that all today’s black American music, be it Jazz, R’n’B, Soul or Electro, is either directly or indirectly descended. The ancient African tribal rhythms and musical traditions survived the shock of the transportation of milllions of Africans as slaves to the Americas, and after 300 years of slavery in the so called Land of the Free the sounds of Old Africa became the new sounds of black America. Rapping, the rhythmic use of spoken or semi-sung lyrics grew from its roots in the tribal chants and the plantation work songs to become, an integral part of black resistance to an oppresive white society.

This ad-lib vocal style progressed throught the scat-singing of the early jazz days via pioneers like Cab Calloway and Slim Gaillard to the street poetry of the Last Poets in the Seventies. Musically, the old African folk songs and drum rhythms developed into the blues and urban jazz that by the 1950s made black America’s music known around the world.

Through the ever-present influence of gospel, Fifties rhythm and blues and various technical innovations like the electric guitar and electric organ, black music arrived at soul in the early Sixties. By the end of that decade, with the help of James Brown, Sly Stone and others too numerous to mention, it had mutated into that glorious hybrid, street funk, which is where we come in.

For many, soul is the ultimate expression in black music; but with soul you could either dance or listen to the music – with funk there are not two ways about it: you’ve just gotta dance. Throughout the golden years of street funk in the early and mid Seventies, bands like the JBs, Brass Construction, The Fatback Band, The Jimmy Castor Bunch, Parliament and thousands of others blasted out a sound that meant sex, sweat and shuffling feet.

Funky music was now the thing and with every week seemingly bringing forth dozens of excellent new releases, the future looked bright. Unfortunately, the growing popularity of funk coincided with the rise of disco, the bland Ritchie Family / Donna Surnmer school of dance music, where string sections, thudding drum machine beats and sugary vocals replaced live percussion, swinging horn sections and the gritty voice of urban funk.

The new commercial element of disco drove the hard funk sounds underground and in New York especially the young black kids disillusioned by the lack of excitement in the new glitzy musical regime ruling the clubs began delving back into the past catalogue of early Seventies funk classics. Nowhere was this rejection of disco more extreme than in the rough, tough Bronx district of New York City.

In parks and community centres, up and coming DJs were playing to packed crowds of youngsters eager to hear the old funk tunes. Pretty soon (by 1976/77) the DJs and dancers we’re paying special attention to the percussion breaks in records like Jimmy Castor’s ‘It’s Just Begun’, Dennis Goffey’s ‘Scorpio’ and Herman KeIly’s ‘Dance To The Drummer’s Beat’: in fact to any record with a good drum break, including tracks by the Rolling Stones and other white rock bands.

The kids who were into the breaks started calling themselves B-Boys and the wild, acrobatic style of dancing which accompanied the playing of the breaks became known as breaking. The better Bronx DJs like Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash started mixing two copies of the same record to make the breaks last longer; with fast cutting between the decks a 20-second drum break could be turned into a five-minute mix! Besides experimenting with the technical side of DJ-ing like cutting and scratching, the Bronx Jocks were also experimenting with the new, weird and wonderful electronic sounds coming out of Europe.

Kraftwerk’s 1977 hit ‘Trans-Europe Express’ was a great B-Boy favourite and the cool driving metallic Kraftwerk mixture of computerised drumbreaks and synthesisers was something a lot of the more musical kids on the scene wished to emulate. While all this was happening on the hot and sweaty dancefloors of the Bronx, out on the streets another vital element of the hip hop scene was falling into place.

The old, black tradition of using rhyming slang to put down your enemies (or friends) had developed, through smart-ass street jive of the early Seventies, to become for many urban youngsters a new way of talking. Half speaking, half singing the rhythmic street talk of rapping was soon being heard in the clubs, with aspiring rappers doing their thing over the local sound systems, the DJs providing backing tracks of instrumental versions of the latest dance hits.

By the end of 1978 the Bronx was weIl and truly on the boil. Everything had come together: the scratching techniques of the DJs, the body-moves of the break dancers and the vocal style of the rappers. While in the background a youthful obsession with video games that was to influence so many early electro tunes, the growth of graffiti art and a new vocabulary of "homeboys" and "fresh tunes" meant that the new hip-hop culture was primed and ready to explode.

It’s a fitting testament to human creativity that a generation of deprived kids in the burnt-out poverty of the boogie-down Bronx managed to create a lifestyle, a music and a culture that was shortly to sweep the world. With all this activity going on it was only a question of time before the new rap phenomenon found itself on record. Surprisingly, though, the first rap record as such was on the B-side of the once great Fatback Band’s 1979 release ‘You’re My Candy Sweet’; the flipside rap was called and performed by King Tim III (Personality Jock) and gained the single a great deal more success than the fairly mundane A-side deserved.

However, it was the next rap 12" that finally made the world aware of what was going down in New York City. ‘Rapper’s Delight’ by the Sugarhill Gang on Sylvia Robinson’s Sugarhill label was a 14 minute rap epic that used Chic’s massive disco hit ‘Good Times’ as its rhythm track. It seems appropriate somehow that the last really big hit of the disco era should be used to herald the arrival of rap on the music scene.

The spark that lit the hip hop fuse, ‘Rapper’s Delight’, became the fastest selling 12" single in history with up to 60,000 copies a day being snapped up in shops across the States alone. At last here was something spontaneous, tough and from the streets to replace the vapid sounds of Boney M and co; the emphasis switched from the Studio 54 mega-disco style of nightclub with its flash light shows to hot, humid basement clubs where all that was needed was a DJ who knew his stuff, a good sound system and an MC rapping on the mike.

The effect on the established soul world was electric (comparable with the effect punk had had on the white rock establishment) and despite the fact that new releases like the Younger Generation’s ‘We Rap More Mellow’, Kurtis Blow’s ‘Christmas Rapping’, Jocko’s ‘Rhythm Talk’ and the Funky 4 + 1 ‘s ‘That’s The Joint’ took the dancefloors by storm, the media pundits kept saying that rap was a novelty , an overnight sensation that wouldn’t last. Oh yeah?

Grandmasterflash & The Furious FiveThe major record labels, having lost touch with the street, were caught truly by rap’s success and small New York labels like Sugarhill, Enjoy, Tuff City and Profile were making all the running. Amongst other great tunes 1981 saw the ultimate vinyl example of the new DJ’s skills as Sugarhill released Grandmaster Flash’s, ‘Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel’. In an eight-minute vinyl tour de force, Flash cuts and scratches his way through Chic’s ‘Good Times’, Blondie’s ‘Rapture’, Queen’s ‘Another One Bites The Dust’ and Spoonie Gee’s ‘Monster Jam’, to create one of the most imaginative dance records ever made.

Meanwhile, another of the early Bronx DJs, Afrika Bambaataa, inspired by the Sugarhill Gang’s success, got together with a white producer called Arthur Baker and the white owner of the newly-formed Tommy Boy record label, Tom Silverman, to record a tough rap version of Gwen Guthrie’s ‘Jazzy Sensation’. However, it was the second single on Tommy Boy that really rocked the house. Released early in 1982, ‘Planet Rock’ by Bambaataa And The Soul Sonic Force, with Arthur Baker again producing, was as innovative in its way as ‘Rapper’s Delight’, or Flash’s’ Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel’.

Using one of the Kraftwerk rhythm tracks so beloved by Bambaataa and the B-Boys, ‘Planet Rock’ was proof positive that drum machines and synthesisers could still conjure up a party atmosphere when used by the right people. Electro funk had arrived. After ‘Planet Rock’, the floodgates were well and truly open and there was no stopping the hip hop movement.

Other left-field funk records like D-Train’s ‘You’re The One For Me’ and the Peech Boys’ ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ helped to create a climate where every month saw yet a new dimension added to black dance music, and it was a mixture of the D-Train type electro funk sound and the new tough rap vocals that produced, in late 1982, Grandmaster Flash’s magnificent ‘The Message’. With its no-holds-barred view of urban poverty, ‘The Message’ struck a chord with a generation of kids on both sides of the Atlantic growing up in the economic depression of Reagan’s America and Thatcher’s Britain; thousands more converts were won over to rap and the dancefloors echoed the sounds of young black America.

The years 1982-3 were filled with classic seminal electro / rap and a quick round-up of some of these great sounds shows the strength of the new music. On Tommy Boy came ‘Looking For The Perfect Beat’ by Afrika Bambaataa And The Soul Sonic Force, the video-game inspired ‘’Space Cowboy’ and ‘Pac-Jam’ by the weird and wacky Jonzun Crew.

On Enjoy there was the Fearless Four’s ‘Rockin’ It’ and the Disco Four’s ‘Country Rock Rap’; on Quality there was Felix and Jarvis’s 100mph ‘Flamethrower Rap’; on Jive Whodini’s ‘Magic’s Wand’ and on Sugarhill ‘Yes We Can-Can’ by the Treacherous Three. 1982 also saw Sugarhill sell a million copies of an album called ‘Drop The Bomb’ by Trouble Funk, a Washington go go band who created their own version of New York’s electro-rap by adding that heavy, heavy percussion sound that has come to be identified with the capital city.

All across America, the electro scene was smoking, and as records like ‘White Lines’ and Shannon’s ‘Let The Music Play’ started combining more soulful vocals with that hip-hop beat, so electro continued crossing over to a wider audience. By 1983 at the very latest, almost anyone in the Western world who watched TV, listened to records, or read newspapers was aware of this new culture sweeping in from New York City.

Breakdancing, rapping, scratching and graffiti art all became a recognised part of the vocabulary of youth culture and dance music. But hip hop was still treated with contempt by many. Here in Britain, even though as early as 1982 young black and white kids were already forming their own break-crews, and clubs like London’s Language Lab were packing them in to hear Britain’s first generation of rappers, so the old soul establishment with its radio and press mouthpieces, continued whingeing that electro wasn’t soul, that rap was boring, desperately clinging to their self-appointed roles as arbiters of good taste in black music.

But the kids weren’t listening. Young blacks and whites on the streets listened first to Lionel Richie and then to Grandmaster Flash and made their choice; the punters deserted the established soul scene in droves, searching for that perfect beat, and defenders of the true soul have struggled in vain to keep up with developments ever since.

The year 1983 saw the release of two hugely popular electro tunes in Grandmaster and Melle Mel’s ‘White Lines’ and Man Parrish’s ‘Hip Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)’, a record which more than any other helped give electro its new alternative name of hip hop. In the same year Run DMC released ‘It’s Like That / Sucker MCs’ and rap headed out in yet another new, minimalist direction.

As some electro grew harder and more uncompromising so tracks like jazzman Herbie Hancock’s ‘Rockit’ helped remove the last remaining barriers of prejudice against the new sound and showed the effect hip hop was having on the whole black music scene. From 1984 onwards hip hop has taken many forms, some more successful than others. Although New York still calls the shots, other cities Stateside like LA, with the Egyptian Lover and Uncle Jamm’s Army, are producing their own style of electro.

In New York the slow and low, heavy and hard school of rap found its champions in Run DMC and the emmergent Def Jam label whose use of heavy metal guitars has opened up yet another field of electro-funk. Amongst the usual egotistical subject matter of most raps people like Brother D and the Collective Effort, Captain Rapp and the Kold Krew have tried to educate people politically with respectively, ‘How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise’, ‘Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)’ and ‘Don’t Let ‘Em Drop The Bomb’. In ’84,

Tommy Boy put out Keith Leblanc’s ‘Malcolm X – No Sell Out’ and drum patterns were never the same again; in the same year two DJs called Double Dee and Steinski produced a megamix of GLOBE and Whizzkid’s ‘Play That Beat, Mr DJ’ and mixing was never the same again. Over the last two years electro releases have come fast and furious, the music has had its ups and downs and yet it is still moving in the right direction. Every time there seems to be a lull in the scene, along comes an innovative new track like UTFO’s ‘Roxanne, Roxanne’, Doug E Fresh’s ‘The Show’, Full Force’s’ Alice’ or Kurtis Blow’s ‘lf I Ruled The World’ to open a new dimension to the sound and keep that vital creativity that hip hop has alive and growing.

Now that Britain has its own hip hop performers and artists like Dizzy Heights, the Family Quest, Hardrock Soul Movement, DSM and many others, electro has become a truly international phenomenon. Hip hop has certainly come a long way from those early, chaotic days down in the Bronx and the music’s success is best summed up by the opening line of Afrika Bambaataa’s ‘Renegades Of Funk’: ‘No matter how hard you try, you can’t stop us now.’

RM Hip Hop Magazine, 1986 . COPYRIGHT RM HIP HOP MAGAZINE

link:

http://toledohiphop.org/images/old_school_source_code/ – old skool N.Y. flyers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_%28music%29 – electro music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_school_hip_hop – old skool hip hop 

da wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mf_doom :

Daniel Dumile

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Daniel Dumile
Background information
Birth name	Daniel Dumile
Also known as	MF DOOM The Super Villain Viktor Vaughn King Geedorah Metal Fingers Metal Fingered Villain Zev Love X
Born	January 9, 1971 (1971-01-09) (age 37) London, England
Origin	Long Island, New York, United States
Genre(s)	Hip hop
Occupation(s)	Rapper, producer
Years active	1989–Present
Label(s)	Metal Face Rhymesayers Fondle ‘Em Big Dada Nature Sounds Shaman Works Stones Throw Sound-Ink Insomniac, Inc.
Associated acts	KMD Madvillain DangerDoom Monsta Island Czars MF Grimm
Website	MF DOOM site (not updated since 2004) Official Myspace

Daniel Dumile (pronounced /duːməleɪ/) (born January 9, 1971) is a British born American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career—originally Zev Love X, most famously MF DOOM, and in side projects such as King Geedorah, Metal Fingers, Viktor Vaughn, and collaboration projects such as DANGERDOOM and Madvillain. He remains one of the most popular and critically acclaimed indie artists today. Little is known about his personal life, though he did reveal in a 2006 interview on his MySpace page that he is married with two children, one of them teenage.

Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Early years with KMD 1.2 Birth of MF DOOM 1.3 Mainstream recognition 1.4 Current and upcoming projects 2 Style 3 Discography 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

 

[edit] Early years with KMD

Dumile, the son of a Trinidadian mother and Zimbabwean father, was born in Southeast London, England,^[1] then moved with his family to New York and was raised in Long Beach, New York.

As Zev Love X, he formed the group KMD with his younger brother Subroc and another MC called Onyx The Birthstone Kid.^[1] A&R Dante Ross learned of KMD from the rap group 3rd Bass, and signed them to Elektra Records.^[2]

Dumile and KMD’s debut on record came on 3rd Bass’s song "The Gas Face" from The Cactus Album,^[1] followed in 1991 with KMD’s album Mr. Hood, which became a minor hit through its singles "Peachfuzz", "Who Me?" and heavy video play on cable TV’s Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City.

Subroc was struck and killed by a car in 1993 while attempting to cross a Long Island expressway before the release of a second KMD album entitled Black Bastards.^[1] The group was subsequently dropped from Elektra Records before the release of the album due to controversy over the album’s cover art^[2] which featured a cartoon of a stereotypical pickaninny or sambo character being hanged from the gallows.

With the loss of his brother, Dumile retreated from the hip-hop
scene from 1994-1997. He testifies to disillusionment and depression,
living "damn near homeless, walking the streets of Manhattan, sleeping on benches".^[3][1] In the late 1990s, he left New York City and settled in Atlanta.
According to interviews with DOOM, he was also "recovering from his
wounds" and swearing revenge "against the industry that so badly
deformed him."^[1] Black Bastards had become bootlegged at the time, leading to DOOM’s rise in the underground hip-hop world.

[edit] Birth of MF DOOM

Dumile began to rap at open mic events at the Nuyorican Poets Café in 1998 where he withheld his face by putting a stocking over his head. His new identity was influenced by Marvel Comics supervillain Dr. Doom.
He wears the mask while performing and isn’t photographed without it,
except for very short glimpses in videos such as Viktor Vaughn’s "Mr.
Clean" and in earlier photos with KMD^[1]

The release of Operation: Doomsday in 1999 by independent label Fondle ‘Em
marked the official turning point for Dumile in his reinvention of
himself from a major label recording artist of minor status to
independent artist, where he would find his greatest success. In 2000, Doom released his first collaboration with MF Grimm, entitled MF EP. Since then, the MF’s have begun a bitter feud.

During this time, Doom also began releasing instrumental albums, in a series known as Special Herbs.

 

[edit] Mainstream recognition

DOOM’s first commercial breakthrough came in 2004, with the album Madvillainy together with producer Madlib under the group name Madvillain. Released by Stones Throw Records,
the album was a critical and commercial success. MF DOOM was seen by
mainstream audiences for the first time as Madvillain received
publicity and acclaim in publications such as Rolling Stone, New York Times, The New Yorker, and Spin. A video for "All Caps" and a four-date U.S. tour followed the release of Madvillainy. Additional videos for "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Accordion" were released on the DVDs Stones Throw 101 and "Stones Throw 102: In Living the True Gods," respectively.

In the same year, MF DOOM’s second solo album MM..FOOD was released by the Minnesota-based label Rhymesayers Entertainment. As Viktor Vaughn (another obvious play on Dr. Doom, whose "real name" is Victor von Doom) he has released two albums Vaudeville Villain & Venomous Villain (also called VV2),

Though still an independent artist, MF DOOM took a bigger step towards the mainstream in 2005 with The Mouse and the Mask, a collaboration with producer DJ Danger Mouse under the group name DangerDoom. The album, released on October 11, 2005 by Epitaph, was done in cooperation with Cartoon Network‘s [adult swim]
and frequently references characters from its programs. DOOM also made
an appearance in "November Has Come," a track on Gorillaz’s 2005 album Demon Days. In 2006 DOOM hosted the [adult swim] Christmas special and he could be seen in between shows and other such things.

[edit] Current and upcoming projects

MF DOOM produced tracks for both of Ghostface Killah‘s 2006 albums, Fishscale and More Fish; and the two are currently at work on a collaboration album entitled Swift & Changeable. So far only one track has been released from the album, "Angels", which appeared on a Nature Sounds compilation in late 2006. DOOM has also revealed plans for a second Madvillain album with producer Madlib, with one song, "Monkey Suite", first appearing on the Adult Swim/Stones Throw Records album Chrome Children. Other potential projects mentioned by DOOM include new albums from DANGERDOOM, The John Robinson Project and KMD,^[4]
as well as further albums under both his Viktor Vaughn and King
Geedorah aliases. However, many such DOOM projects have been rumored in
recent years without materializing.

Despite no new DOOM releases in 2006, Kidrobot and Stones Throw released an 8" tall Madvillain toy available to coincide with the release of the Chrome Children CD/DVD (hosted by Peanut Butter Wolf)
which featured a DVD performance of Madvillain and several other Stones
Throw artists. MF DOOM also continued to work with [adult swim] doing
voice-over work as Sherman the Giraffe on Perfect Hair Forever, being the voice for The Boondocks ads and previews and hosting their Christmas Eve 2006 programming.

MM..FOOD was reissued under the Rhymesayers label on July 24, 2007 as a special edition CD & DVD package.

MF DOOM will also be doing production on the second album of past collaborator, Kurious which is due early 2008. He has also made an appearance on Stones Throw’s B-Ball Zombie War on a track called "Mash’s Revenge" along with Guilty Simpson and the late J Dilla. Lately, DOOM has co-won a mtvU Woodie Award with Madlib in the category Left Field Woodie for Madvillain‘s "Monkey Suite" video.

According to an interview with long time collaborator John Robinson,
MF Doom will release his third LP under the "DOOM" moniker in 2008,
titled "Doompostor." ^[5]
As explained by John Robinson and C-Rayz Walz, live lip-syncing and
impostor-sending dating back to Rock The Bells in NYC (July 29, 2007)
has been orchestrated by Dumile as both a marketing mechanism and a
basis for understanding his new album.^[6]

 

[edit] Style

Did it on the sly Before he’s gone bye bye spit it on the fly Brush your teeth, rinse and gargle A true nerd who messed with new words since Boggle And used slang in Scrabble Rhymed with a Northern drawl, twang and babble Flossy pen jargon to break the world record Do a Faustian bargain and tape the girl nekkid "Mince Meat", from The Mouse and the Mask

MF DOOM’s lyrics are sometimes perceived as eccentric.
With an abundant use of polysyllabic rhymes and bizarre metaphors, MF
DOOM combines complex syntax with phrasing to create a rhyme flow that
is both exhausting and entertaining. His songs commonly lack the
typical verse/chorus structure in favor of showcasing extended rhyme
schemes and strophic or repeating beats and melodies.

Samples from old cartoons (particularly Fantastic Four cartoons in which characters often refer to their arch-enemy, Dr. Doom) frequently find their way into MF DOOM’s productions. Even before his work on the Adult Swim-influenced DANGERDOOM project, his raps alluded to popular movies and TV shows, often Star Trek and the Godzilla films.

Unlike many rappers’ first-person point of reference, MF DOOM refers
to himself in the third person to better convey his own semi-fictional
persona. DOOM himself is a caricature, a masked incarnation of the
"supervillain" that his lyrics describe, which combines with personal
traits and experiences to create an endlessly fascinating topic for his
own songs.

Originally, MF DOOM sported a mask that was very similar to Dr. Doom, the Fantastic Four villain. However his current mask designed by Lord Scotch, a New York graffiti artist, is modeled after the mask worn by Russell Crowe in the film Gladiator
The mask is said to hide the metaphorical scars remaining from the
death of MF DOOM’s brother Subroc in 1993; MF DOOM has also given a
number of alternative meanings for the mask, including the preservation
of creative anonymity in the increasingly image-driven genre of hip-hop:

“	To me, from a musical aspect, hip hop is going into the direction where its almost damn near 100% on everything besides the music, what you look like, the sound of your name, to what you’re wearing, the brand of clothing, whatever intoxicants you choose to put in your body, everything except what the music sounds like. So the mask is really a testament to yo, it’s not about none of that, its straight about the wreck. You could be any color or whatever you know what I’m saying? The mask represents everybody to say that yo, nothing matters, the brand of clothing, none of that matters, it’s about how you spit and how the beats is raw, thats what its about.	”
—MF DOOM, MuchMusic

 

[edit] Discography

Main article: Daniel Dumile discography

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official MF DOOM myspace page at MySpace
• MF DOOM & Madlib as Madvillain
• Official Madvillain myspace page at MySpace
• MF DOOM & Danger Mouse as Dangerdoom
• Official DANGERDOOM myspace page at MySpace
• MF DOOM complete discography (hosted by Stones Throw)

[hide] v • d • e Stones Throw Records
Madlib Projects
Jaylib | Lootpack | Madvillain | Yesterdays New Quintet | DJ Rels | Quasimoto
Other Members
Aloe Blacc | Baron Zen| Breakestra |Charizma | Dudley Perkins | J Dilla | J-Rocc | Georgia Anne Muldrow | Guilty Simpson | Koushik | M.E.D. | MF DOOM | Oh No | Peanut Butter Wolf | Percee P | The Turntablist | Gary Wilson | Wildchild |
Discographies
Madlib discography | Stones Throw Discography | Daniel Dumile discography | James Yancey Discography

Persondata
NAME	Daniel Dumile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	MF DOOM, Viktor Vaughn, Zev Love X
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Rapper, producer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 9, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	London, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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MF Doom – Accordion

 

***ERRATA CORRIGE***

 

THE HIP-HOP ANNIVERSARY TOUR e’ spostato il 6 marzo 2008 all’FBI di Quartosant’Elena (Cagliari)…. sorry…
per il resto rimane uguale:

Direttamente da NYC
HIP-HOP ANNIVERSARY TOUR

featuring: 

THE ORIGINAL SUGARHILL GANG

GRANDMASTER MELLE MEL (from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)

KURTIS BLOW
GRAND WIZARD THEODORE (inventor fo the scratch / Wild Style)
BREAKING CREW

local opening:

MENHIR

BALENTIA

SA RAZZA

djs on stage:
MIMMO A
NICO T
CHICCA

ingresso: 15 euro

Un ringraziamento speciale a Wave per le preziosissime informazioni!!! (^o^)/

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THX 1138 

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All videos by Kate

more philes @ http://www.autistici.org/2000-maniax/ 

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Il concerto e’ spostato il 6 marzo 2008 all’FBI di Quartosant’Elena (Cagliari)…. sorry

L’EVENTO HIP-HOP DELL’ANNO

direttamente da NYC
HIP-HOP ANNIVERSARY TOUR

featuring:

THE ORIGINAL SUGAR HILL GANG
GRANDMASTER MELLE MEL (from Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five)
KURTIS BLOW
GRAND WIZARD THEODORE (inventor fo the scratch / Wild Style)
BREAKING CREW

local opening
MENHIR
BALENTIA
SA RAZZA

djs on stage
MIMMO A
NICO T
CHICCA

ingresso: 15 euro

Un ringraziamento speciale a Wave per le info

Your friendly neighborhood…

THX 1138 

da un commento di estaloca311 a Video explains the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac 

copyright law is fascism. art should be free not the property of anyone (especially the property of corrupt money grabbing loansharks) but a unique line of communication between creator and listener and sometimes reflected from the listener to another audience. Don’t let the musical past die in anonymity. us diggers and breaks djs and producers try to keep musical history alive by giving it new life and form.
We are The Renegades of Free Musical Expression and this is our Manifesto.

 

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Moofi Sound is Rebel Sound 

Stasera 1 febbraio 2008 Reggae dancehall al CPA Firenze Sud con MOOFI SUOND e REBEL SOUND (questi ultini dalla Germania)

start: ore 23.00

Ingresso 2 €uri

Bar a prezzi popolari. 

Dal blog di Moofi Sound
Componenti del gruppo: Tony Selecta, FadaFrance, Grana MC
Influenze: Grindsman, Ron Jeremy, Shabba Ranks, Horace Andy, Wild
Bunch, Mantronix, Federico Sardelli, Kurtis Blow, Delta, Ninjaman,
Supercat, Sun-Ra, James Brown, Dj Gruff, Dj War, Jenna Jameson, Russ
Meyer, Troma Films, Mr Nice, Boba Feet, Monty Phyton, Lino Banfi, King
Jammy, Erik B & Rakeem,Cacciucco,Francesco Papini, De La Soul,
Beastie Boys, Aphex Twin, Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, Ice Cube, NWA,
PRIMUS, Ether, Kraftwerk, Andrea Pazienza,Buju Banton, Barrington Levy,
Bret Easton Ellis, The Doors, MC5, Bootsie Collins, Funkadelic, Earth
Wind & Fire, La schiaccia coi ciccioli, Il ponce, J-Dilla, MF DOOM,
Porrini & Gangini, Rock Steady Crew, Ultramagnetic Mc’s, Nabat, LT
Stitchie, Steel Town Posse, Il Lampredotto, Camp-lo, Busta Rhymes,
Shaggy, WU-TANG, Tribe Called Quest, Curtis Mayfield, SLY STONE, Doner
Kebab, Ettore Petrolini, Kaos One, Sangue misto, Black Sabbath, Il
rumeno Majoli.

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Old School Hip Hop Frigidaire articles:

Da un po’ di giorni avevo in mente di scansionare alcuni articoli pubblicati su Frigidaire ("Frigo" per gli amici…) nei primi anni Ottanta. La terminologia usata nei vari articoli forse non e’ molto accurata ma credo che nessuna altra rivista italiana dell’epoca pubblicasse articoli del genere ergo gli errori sono piu’ che plausibili… 

(scans: THX) 

editoriale n° 29

Afrika Bambaataa

Malcolm McLaren

Ramm:Ell:Zee e Douglas Abdell

Breakers al Roxy 

New York Graffiti 

Your friendly neighborhood THX 1138

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