Tag: Afrika Bambaataa
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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DJ Food does the Robot
If you’re a Kraftwerk fan you’ll love this – DJ Food every year or two puts together a mix of Kraftwerk covers & bits and bobs (bytes?) called unsurprisingly Kraftwerk Kover Kollection and he’s just reposted volume 5 on the interwebs, which was originally aired on Solid Steel Radio show in 2007. I tried to…
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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.
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RC 144: Space Disco II – Calling All Robots
Yes finally it’s the second part of Space Disco and run – the robots are taking over! Just a Romantic Robot (66Mb, 72mins) Boltlist: Risque – Starlight Giorgio Moroder – From here to Eternity Dee D. Jackson – Automatic Lover Alexander Robotnick – Dance Boy Dance Casco – Cyberbetic Love ‘Lectric Workers – Robot is…
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History of Mashups vol. 7 – Kraftwerk
Listen here (11Mb, 16:25) Includes excerpts from: Kraftwerk – RuckZuck (from Kraftwerk 1) Kraftwerk – Autobahn (from Autobahn) Afrika Bambaata & The Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock Ride – The Model (from RubyTrax) Cookie Crew – Got to Keep On Kraftwerk – Boing Boom Tschak (from Electric Cafe) Frenchbloke – Paul Morley: A Dedication (in…