Tag: African American music
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Motown Meltdown once, twice, twice, twice…
I have to say I don’t cover the artier/experimental side of mashups and cutup culture as much as I’d like to, but here’s definitely one release to make up for that – the second volume of Motown Meltdown. I loved the first volume ever since I heard it via Vicki People Like Us’s Do or…
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The Best Disco in the World (and it didn’t play Disco)
Those B-boys and DJs should look on in awe to the moves and scenes in this 1977 Granada documentary – for in the late 60’s and 70’s at places like Wigan Casino kids were getting down and dancing amazing moves (some of which are seen now as b-boy breakdancing staples) all night without alcohol and…
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DJ Ruth Flowers: 69 and rocking ’em hard
Brilliant, and to show you’re never too old to rock the crowd! 😀 What I love about things like this is the reaction from the younger people who are amazed that someone of that age gets their music, culture etc. It’s necessary at that age to think that it’s all new and just for you,…
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Looking from a Hilltop – RIP Larry Cassidy
Word has got through via the NoRecordShopsLeft blog that Larry Cassidy of Section 25 has died. Who you might say? Well Section 25 was part of the Factory Records roster, formed in Blackpool in 1977, and one of those few electro/dance acts that prefigured and prescribed acid house, linking electro to it’s future Detroit home.…
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Know your roots: Beat This Hip Hop documentary
Beat This: A Hip Hop History BBC documentary from 1984 about the roots of hiphop – contains an interview with the legendary DJ Kool Herc, the father of hiphop…and Afrika Bambaataa, Malcolm McLaren, Arthur Baker and more.