Hello, that sad brexit story knows no end, whatever happens next, the wounds created will stay open for decades. The simpletons that voted leave are conditioned to believe by their Tory masters, that the EU was the main culprit for their misery.. The haves that voted leave, feared losing control over their simpletons and the influx of un-indoctrinated foreigners that would rightfully claim their share of the cake. It's really bizarre how PM Boris Johnson desperately promised billions for schools, the NHS and the police, clearly his advisers told mr no deal he needed to up his popularity as elections awaits. As it stands the opposition has Mr Johnson dangling on a string and any elections will be held on their terms-date wise. That will be after 31st of October which will force PM Boris to ask for an extension or who knows he was serious about being dead before that happens, but nah the man has no honor whatsoever..
Today's Artists are all swallowed by the mist of time, yet they were all...fresh. ...... N Joy
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In one sense, you could call Morgan Khan an importer. That's basically what he did when he set up Street Sounds, the subsidiary to his dance label Streetwave, and released the first Street Sounds Electro compilation in 1983: here were eight tracks out of the United States that would've cost a couple of dozen quid for a UK buyer to import, all collected together for a price under five pounds. As a business decision, it was pretty shrewd, but as a scene-maker it was flat-out seismic: Thanks to the budget pricing and each volume's two sides of tight, continuous mixing from the likes of Herbie Laidley and the Mastermind sound system, the 22-volume Street Sounds Electro series-- later Street Sounds Hip Hop Electro and finally just Street Sounds Hip Hop-- was a major factor in defining what UK B-boys caught on to in the hip-hop world between 1983 and 1988.
Street Sounds Electro: In many ways, it's a fortunate time capsule that hits on a lot of the now-iconic electro and rap classics of the mid-late 1980s and what sort of context they came from. Yet it also offers a deeper, messier variation on the evolution of hip-hop, one that covers most of the major bases between the old school and the sample era-- Grandmaster Flash, Run-D.M.C., the Roxanne wars, the dawn of golden age icons like BDP and Eric B. & Rakim and EPMD-- then complicates it all by throwing in a lot of strange stuff that history completely forgot, for reasons both unfair and justified.
While the significant presence of classic early-mid 80s rap integrated itself into the tenor of each Street Sounds edition-- or sometimes clashed against it, like the slow, wobbly dubbed-out strut-bounce of Rammellzee vs. K-Rob's "Beat Bop" did amongst the otherwise uptempo pop-and-lock fodder of 1983's Volume 2-- it started to gradually dominate the series as a whole, swapping out the vocoders-and-Kraftwerk vibe of classic electro for the harder, sparser sounds of hip hop's first hardcore phase.
By 1987, the word "Electro" started disappearing from the compilation's now "Hip Hop"-focused titles, the 808s slowed down drastically and sample-based cuts by the Ultramagnetic MCs ("Traveling at the Speed of Thought"; "Funky") and J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. ("Strong Island"; "Doing Damage") started making their way into the mix. By '88, the last year of the Street Sounds Electro series, the closest it got to uptempo electro-rap was Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock's "It Takes Two"-- by which time it was on its way to bypassing the whole "electro" thing entirely and getting identified as "hip-house." It's an illuminating history, an evolution of sound in a sort of beyond-canonical macrocosm.
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It's probably one of the most eclectic comps of the series actually, both in terms of the tempo and the style. Electro-Jazz-Funk, Proto Electro Techno, Electro-Funk, Hardcore Hip Hop Rap (with Run DMC), a proper raw Electro Rap throwdown with Pumpkin And The Profile All Stars which was a massive breakdance anthem. Early mash-up style with D-ST's/Laswell's/Hancock's Mega Mix which includes everything including the kitchen sink which was also another breakdance anthem. Lots of various artists and diverse labels.
VA - Street Sounds Electro 4 (flac 275mb)
01 Steps Ahead - Radio Active 6:45
02 Pumpkin And The Profile All-Stars - Here Comes That Beat ! 6:50
03 Herbie Hancock - Megamix 6:18
04 Run-DMC - Sucker M.C.'s 3:15
05 Key-Matic - Breakin' In Space6:16
06 The VHB - Beethoven's Fifth (Street) Symphony 7:03
07 Cybotron - Techno City 6:55
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It is not until you own the individual tunes featured on all the Electro Series that you begin to realise the tricks incorporated to keep the mixes flowing, that statement is by no means a criticism or meant to take anything away from the DJ'S who mixed them, for example, some tracks are looped in certain parts ready for the next tune to be dropped or another mix of that same tune to be played, it doesn't sound like they have created this loop with two turntables or even three, the loops sound like they are coming from another source as can be heard in the We Come To Rock by the Imperial Brothers on Electro 3. Electro 5 to me is definitely one of the better Electro's as is Electro 11 too, there all good but some stand out. Without a doubt the most kickin Electro platter out of the "Electro" compilations from the entire collection, awesome mixing & great tracks
VA - Street Sounds Electro 5 (flac 288mb)
01 Great Peso & Mr. Nasty - It's Time To Rock 4:15
02 Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde - Fast Life 4:47
03 Knights Of The Turntables - Techno Scratch 5:09
04 Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt 3:14
05 Arthur Baker - Breakers Revenge 7:35
06 Captain Rock - Capt. Rock To The Future Shock 3:46
07 Aleem - Release Yourself 5:30
08 Fantasy Three - The Buck Stops Here 6:16
09 High Fidelity Three - B Boys Breakdance 5:35
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From Tyrone Brunson's - body-bopping, electro-funk classic, 'The Smurf', Warp 9's two great tracks of spacey funk, Man Parrish's - 'Hip Hop Be Bop'(which still sounds great today), and jazz-funk electro from Herbie Hancock. You think that's enough sensory pleasure until you turn it over onto the flipside. Starting off with the Planet Rock inspired 'Electric Kingdom'. Twilight 22 were making Egyptian sounding electro before even Egyptian Lover was on the scene. Then perfectly blending into - arguably the first ever techno tune 'Clear by Cybotron' - brilliant, until the classic of all electro classics 'Al-Naafiysh' comes along and blows you away. Finishing off with 'The Return Of Captain Rock' which was a bit of an anthem with the breakers, and the legendary 'Wild Style' by Time Zone which was the 'electro/breakdance' tune of the time, and was produced by the non other Afrika Bambaataa, who incidentally performs on this too. If one needed to hear a snapshot of the early eighties electro sound, 'Street Sounds Electro Crucial' would sum it up perfectly. True class!
VA - Street Sounds Crucial Electro (flac 266mb)
01 Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf 3:40
02 Warp 9 - Light Years Away 4:13
03 Warp 9 - Nunk (New Wave Funk) 3:26
04 Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop) 5:00
05 Herbie Hancock - Rockit 4:54
06 Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom 4:51
07 Cybotron - Clear 5:46
08 Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) 3:05
09 Captain Rock - Return Of Captain Rock 3:48
10 Time Zone - Wild Style (Special New Mix) 4:25
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From One for the Treble through Planet Rock, Electro Crucial 2 is simply a joy to listen to! The remaining 2 tracks ain't too shabby either. By far my favourite from the now-deleted Street Sounds Electro series.
VA - Street Sounds Crucial Electro 2 (flac 280mb)
01 The B-Boys - Two, Three Break 4:59
02 The Russell Brothers - The Party Scene (SV) 6:02
03 Davy DMX - One For The Treble (Fresh) 7:12
04 The Packman - I'm A Pac Man 5:39
05 Shannon - Let The Music Play (Dub) 5:27
06 Xena - On The Upside 4:05
07 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock 5:29
08 The Jonzun Crew - Pac Jam (Look Out For The OVC) 5:42
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Bonus Bonus Mix Mix Mix yes it's an Electro-Smoothie, goes down without a hitch.....
Btw Charles Turner = DJ Born Supreme Allah and DJ Chuck Chillout go figure, and DJ Red Alert is legally known as Frederick Crute but who cares
VA - Streetsounds Bonus Break (flac 236mb)
01 DJ Born Supreme Allah - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 3 4:44
02 DJ Red Alert - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 2 5:24
03 DJ Chuck Chillout - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 1 6:51
04 DJ Born Supreme Allah / DJ Chuck Chillout / DJ Red Alert - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 1, 2, 3 Megamix 18:46
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Today's Artists are all swallowed by the mist of time, yet they were all...fresh. ...... N Joy
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In one sense, you could call Morgan Khan an importer. That's basically what he did when he set up Street Sounds, the subsidiary to his dance label Streetwave, and released the first Street Sounds Electro compilation in 1983: here were eight tracks out of the United States that would've cost a couple of dozen quid for a UK buyer to import, all collected together for a price under five pounds. As a business decision, it was pretty shrewd, but as a scene-maker it was flat-out seismic: Thanks to the budget pricing and each volume's two sides of tight, continuous mixing from the likes of Herbie Laidley and the Mastermind sound system, the 22-volume Street Sounds Electro series-- later Street Sounds Hip Hop Electro and finally just Street Sounds Hip Hop-- was a major factor in defining what UK B-boys caught on to in the hip-hop world between 1983 and 1988.
Street Sounds Electro: In many ways, it's a fortunate time capsule that hits on a lot of the now-iconic electro and rap classics of the mid-late 1980s and what sort of context they came from. Yet it also offers a deeper, messier variation on the evolution of hip-hop, one that covers most of the major bases between the old school and the sample era-- Grandmaster Flash, Run-D.M.C., the Roxanne wars, the dawn of golden age icons like BDP and Eric B. & Rakim and EPMD-- then complicates it all by throwing in a lot of strange stuff that history completely forgot, for reasons both unfair and justified.
While the significant presence of classic early-mid 80s rap integrated itself into the tenor of each Street Sounds edition-- or sometimes clashed against it, like the slow, wobbly dubbed-out strut-bounce of Rammellzee vs. K-Rob's "Beat Bop" did amongst the otherwise uptempo pop-and-lock fodder of 1983's Volume 2-- it started to gradually dominate the series as a whole, swapping out the vocoders-and-Kraftwerk vibe of classic electro for the harder, sparser sounds of hip hop's first hardcore phase.
By 1987, the word "Electro" started disappearing from the compilation's now "Hip Hop"-focused titles, the 808s slowed down drastically and sample-based cuts by the Ultramagnetic MCs ("Traveling at the Speed of Thought"; "Funky") and J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. ("Strong Island"; "Doing Damage") started making their way into the mix. By '88, the last year of the Street Sounds Electro series, the closest it got to uptempo electro-rap was Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock's "It Takes Two"-- by which time it was on its way to bypassing the whole "electro" thing entirely and getting identified as "hip-house." It's an illuminating history, an evolution of sound in a sort of beyond-canonical macrocosm.
xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx
It's probably one of the most eclectic comps of the series actually, both in terms of the tempo and the style. Electro-Jazz-Funk, Proto Electro Techno, Electro-Funk, Hardcore Hip Hop Rap (with Run DMC), a proper raw Electro Rap throwdown with Pumpkin And The Profile All Stars which was a massive breakdance anthem. Early mash-up style with D-ST's/Laswell's/Hancock's Mega Mix which includes everything including the kitchen sink which was also another breakdance anthem. Lots of various artists and diverse labels.
VA - Street Sounds Electro 4 (flac 275mb)
01 Steps Ahead - Radio Active 6:45
02 Pumpkin And The Profile All-Stars - Here Comes That Beat ! 6:50
03 Herbie Hancock - Megamix 6:18
04 Run-DMC - Sucker M.C.'s 3:15
05 Key-Matic - Breakin' In Space6:16
06 The VHB - Beethoven's Fifth (Street) Symphony 7:03
07 Cybotron - Techno City 6:55
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It is not until you own the individual tunes featured on all the Electro Series that you begin to realise the tricks incorporated to keep the mixes flowing, that statement is by no means a criticism or meant to take anything away from the DJ'S who mixed them, for example, some tracks are looped in certain parts ready for the next tune to be dropped or another mix of that same tune to be played, it doesn't sound like they have created this loop with two turntables or even three, the loops sound like they are coming from another source as can be heard in the We Come To Rock by the Imperial Brothers on Electro 3. Electro 5 to me is definitely one of the better Electro's as is Electro 11 too, there all good but some stand out. Without a doubt the most kickin Electro platter out of the "Electro" compilations from the entire collection, awesome mixing & great tracks
VA - Street Sounds Electro 5 (flac 288mb)
01 Great Peso & Mr. Nasty - It's Time To Rock 4:15
02 Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde - Fast Life 4:47
03 Knights Of The Turntables - Techno Scratch 5:09
04 Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt 3:14
05 Arthur Baker - Breakers Revenge 7:35
06 Captain Rock - Capt. Rock To The Future Shock 3:46
07 Aleem - Release Yourself 5:30
08 Fantasy Three - The Buck Stops Here 6:16
09 High Fidelity Three - B Boys Breakdance 5:35
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From Tyrone Brunson's - body-bopping, electro-funk classic, 'The Smurf', Warp 9's two great tracks of spacey funk, Man Parrish's - 'Hip Hop Be Bop'(which still sounds great today), and jazz-funk electro from Herbie Hancock. You think that's enough sensory pleasure until you turn it over onto the flipside. Starting off with the Planet Rock inspired 'Electric Kingdom'. Twilight 22 were making Egyptian sounding electro before even Egyptian Lover was on the scene. Then perfectly blending into - arguably the first ever techno tune 'Clear by Cybotron' - brilliant, until the classic of all electro classics 'Al-Naafiysh' comes along and blows you away. Finishing off with 'The Return Of Captain Rock' which was a bit of an anthem with the breakers, and the legendary 'Wild Style' by Time Zone which was the 'electro/breakdance' tune of the time, and was produced by the non other Afrika Bambaataa, who incidentally performs on this too. If one needed to hear a snapshot of the early eighties electro sound, 'Street Sounds Electro Crucial' would sum it up perfectly. True class!
VA - Street Sounds Crucial Electro (flac 266mb)
01 Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf 3:40
02 Warp 9 - Light Years Away 4:13
03 Warp 9 - Nunk (New Wave Funk) 3:26
04 Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop) 5:00
05 Herbie Hancock - Rockit 4:54
06 Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom 4:51
07 Cybotron - Clear 5:46
08 Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) 3:05
09 Captain Rock - Return Of Captain Rock 3:48
10 Time Zone - Wild Style (Special New Mix) 4:25
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From One for the Treble through Planet Rock, Electro Crucial 2 is simply a joy to listen to! The remaining 2 tracks ain't too shabby either. By far my favourite from the now-deleted Street Sounds Electro series.
VA - Street Sounds Crucial Electro 2 (flac 280mb)
01 The B-Boys - Two, Three Break 4:59
02 The Russell Brothers - The Party Scene (SV) 6:02
03 Davy DMX - One For The Treble (Fresh) 7:12
04 The Packman - I'm A Pac Man 5:39
05 Shannon - Let The Music Play (Dub) 5:27
06 Xena - On The Upside 4:05
07 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock 5:29
08 The Jonzun Crew - Pac Jam (Look Out For The OVC) 5:42
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Bonus Bonus Mix Mix Mix yes it's an Electro-Smoothie, goes down without a hitch.....
Btw Charles Turner = DJ Born Supreme Allah and DJ Chuck Chillout go figure, and DJ Red Alert is legally known as Frederick Crute but who cares
VA - Streetsounds Bonus Break (flac 236mb)
01 DJ Born Supreme Allah - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 3 4:44
02 DJ Red Alert - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 2 5:24
03 DJ Chuck Chillout - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 1 6:51
04 DJ Born Supreme Allah / DJ Chuck Chillout / DJ Red Alert - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 1, 2, 3 Megamix 18:46
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I'll go on with your remarks about the beloved Brexit project. The problem being that I have no idea from where to start to handle it.
ReplyDeleteThis is sillyness all around. Nothing related to reality, just plain bare idiocy.
This is not to say that England cannot leave the EU, it can, and hopefully will (because as a french, I'm more than fed up with their pseudo-membership), this is because they're doing it for all the wrong reasons, and maybe the fact that I feel some compassion for all these english(wo)men who built their life feeling european (and with the corresponding rights given to them).
I followed the whole thing in the "English press" since the referendum (since the murder of Jo Cox to be exact) and the show on display had been pretty grim, to say the least. Today, because my feelings are changing on a daily basis, I just hope for France saying that enough is enough, the EU27 are not the UK's butlers. Tomorrow, I might think otherwise, who knows.
So please, make your parliament decide something (they were too happy to kick the can down the road with Mrs May, gave her a mandate, and then reneged on it using her as a scapegoat, how surprising - chancers - wankers - irresponsibles - or just morons/idiots).
A perfect representation of a society still lost in a medieval framework... in the 21st Century, with Landlords !
Please note that I think that Mrs May was a total disaster as a politician, I'm certainly not defending her here, but the hypocrisy of Westminster towards her just highlights that, surely she was shit, but parliament certainly wasn't better.
And then today, we have to deal with Mr Johnson... (and his Éminence Grise, Mr Cummings.)
(Rolling eyes.)
Honestly, I have no idea where to begin, I've just read the "Yellowhammer" papers. You guys can't be serious.
ReplyDeleteI expect more sensible material from the dead corpse of Mugabe.
Thank you!
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