Absolutely bloody brilliant! Old school heaven! Only half an hour left unfortunately, but get it again on iplayer! He’s bonkers! But playing some fine tunes!

Ddddddon’t do it.

Not for me. Well overrated IMO.

Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel blew my mind when it came out and is still a fave, he was a massive innovator and I have a big ole soft spot for old school party hip hop! Cut faster!

Overrated? Compared to what? Get a grip FFS!

Stiggy – get the whole thing on iplayer. It’s superb!!! Some choice old school! You’ll love it!

Frankie Knuckles, Tony De Vit, Tony Humphries…

DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Lol.

Thanks for the heads up OP

And would those people have ever existed if it wasn’t for people like Flash? Seriously? You think they emerged from nowhere, with no influences? Don’t be so ridiculously small minded. Just listen to it and revel in the unadulterated joy of it! 🙄

Goods words binners.

I thouroughly enjoyed the show!

I have just bought the new Grandmaster compilation album that’s due out tomorrow, legendary stuff!

Edit, listening again now 🙂

Cheers.

Anyone got a link to this?

There you go!

Enjoy! We stuck it on again when it finished, as we’d missed the start of it. The volume gradually went up through the course of it! Ended up having a bit of a kitchen disco! 😀

Did they or he make any money out of inventing Hip Hop?

I like a lot of that kind of stuff so will download it for my roadtrip in America in a few weeks, thanks for the heads up.

Excellent, this should pass the first few hours of today at work 🙂

Did they or he make any money out of inventing Hip Hop?

I don’t think you can lay the invention of hip hop on any one person but if you have to pin it down to an individual I think DJ Kool Herc has more of a claim than Flash.

Well that’s Monday morning’s listening sorted. Thanks!
<wonders if I can camtasia it to mpeg?>

tick.

If you haven’t got it already, then this is well worth buying. The album is superb

Its Cool Herc narrating the history of Hip Hop, from Jamaican Dancehall, right through. Its a mix of cracking tunes (not just the obvious ones) and and samples of interviews with the likes of Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube. Its a brilliant listen.

The book that accompanies it is a bloody good read too

Cheers muppetWrangler every day is a school day 😆

Some of the banter in between tunes was hilarious. Also I’m not sure how he got away with starting the mix the UB40 version of Red Red Wine, but somehow he pulled it off….

Also check out John Morales, just as influential (in a background/studio kind of way)

Link to RA Exchange soundcloud page here

And dropping AC/DC Back in Black was a touch of genius! 😀

Its just great to hear someone who’s clearly loving playing some brilliant tunes. I bet his club nights are epic!!!!

Is this a different one? I’m sure this was on a while back?

Old one didnt have UB40 or AC/DC.

So, how can I download this new mix, I remember downloading the old one.

The book that accompanies it is possibly the most difficult thing to read this side of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War

FTFY

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2xR-mc-Ikw[/video]

If you’re interested in origins of hip hop and have 90 minutes to spare then this is worth a watch.

Same question did any of the originators make any money out of it?

Same question did any of the originators make any money out of it?

Most made a living, but nothing compared to what hip hop artists could post NWA. I guess the first artists to make what looked like a career out of hip hop were probably the Beastie Boys and Run DMC but that’s not until the mid 80’s. I can’t think of any other artists prior to them that managed international album sales or had much in the way of career longevity.

A lot of the artists prior to the mid 80’s were either one hit wonders or were really not savvy/motivated/well connected enough to exploit their talent on a big scale. Flash, Herc and the like were basically local DJ’s being paid to play records within quite a small geographical area so if anyone was making money at that time it was probably the promoters rather than the guys on the turntables.

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Old one didnt have UB40 or AC/DC.

So, how can I download this new mix, I remember downloading the old one.

Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Tribalmixes, Mixing.dj it’ll be on one of those soon, if not already.

I dare say if you type the name of what you want and “torrent” you’ll probably come up trumps. 🙂

Flash is fast, Bambaataa was first. This was my bible back in the 80s, collecting the lightning swords of death on import

Me no findee dat “can’t stop, won’t stop” muzak on iTunes..

Is it called something else ? All I can find is the book and I don’t want that..

It was out a good few years back actually. Looking, you can’t seem to even buy the CD. I’ll MP3 the CD for you tonight bikebouy . Think I’ve already got it on my laptop. Will see if I can upload it to soundcloud or something this evening

😀

Cheers!

It’s all about StreetSounds Electro tapes 🙂

grab ya cardboard, get ya Fila tracksuit out. Hey, you, the Rock Steady Crew…

It’s all about StreetSounds Electro tapes

why tapes ?

I only have them on vinyl 🙁

This one has got the song that inspired Wikipedia on it…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWuAdxoiVPA[/video]

I found it quite tricky listening to vinyl on my Aiwa personal cassette player. Tapes seemed to work better.

Who the hell was that DJ talking to Flash?

“Donald Byrd is a new one on me” – !!!

I thought you were supposed to know about music if you worked on radio 6!

edit – ahh it’s :

“Tom Robinson (born 1950) is London-based broadcaster & songwriter. His best known songs are 2-4-6-8 Motorway, Glad To Be Gay and War Baby;”

That explains it, and why his songs were so iffy…