Its been revealed that Hip Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa has been added to the bill for the Wireless Festival in July.The legend will take the stage on Saturday 4th July along with Dizzee Rascal and Basement Jaxx.Further additions have been made to the Sunday 5th July line-up with Kelly Rowland and Alesha Dixon joining Kanye West, [...]
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Complete with beatboxers, breakdancers, old school tunes and graffiti being put up everywhere around Greenpoint's Alphabeta shop, the book launch for Graffiti Japan (which has been compiled over a number of years of research by the patient camera lens of...
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as i mentioned in a previous post my son is listening to a lot of music and finding out his own likes and dislikes. The newest addition to the like side is Rage Against the Machine. The only cd i have by RATM is Renegades, their last record and it is record of covers. I told him it is a record of covers so he wanted to know who sang the originals. His favorite is Renegades of Funk and I went o...
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Hip hop culture, as we know, has made a major contribution in unearthing obscure funk and soul music from the 1970s and 80s. Numerous jazz musicians have rebuilt their careers over being sampled by A Tribe Called Quest, Gangstarr etc. The art of digging for rare records that came to life in the late 70's Bronx through people like Afrika Bambaataa a.k.a. the Master of Records is now a worldwid...
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Who?One of the early pioneers of hip-hop, Afrika Bambaataa has been plugging away since 1980, and hasn't slowed down since. Using the aid of rap crews the Jazzy 5 and Soulsonic Force, Bambaataa created some of the first jaw-dropping beats and samples in the genre's long, storied history.And I Care Because?- He helped invent modern dance music. Making excellent use of Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe ...
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The Death Mix was a live DJ mix by "master of records" Afrika Bambaataa, that is one of the few released (there are plenty of old cassettes I've come across over the years) documents of early hip hop style DJ'ing.Records like this were like runes to me in the early 80's, because the hip hop that was appearing on records, while new and exciting, was still a studio creation that took away the raw...
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Last time we had ish from NBA Live '10, I was feeling the sheer list of emcees they got on their soundtrack. Now, they straight-up mystify me with their dopeness. Bambaataa? Wow, super kudos for that.Afrika Bambaataa feat. Why G, Mickey Factz & Fort Knox 5 - "Zulu! (We Don't Stop Yawl)"addthis_pub = 'WallySean';
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as i mentioned in a previous post my son is listening to a lot of music and finding out his own likes and dislikes. The newest addition to the like side is Rage Against the Machine. The only cd i have by RATM is Renegades, their last record and it is record of covers. I told him it is a record of covers so he wanted to know who sang the originals. His favorite is Renegades of Funk and I went o...
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| 4 Remember Me and the Good Times |
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| 5 Funk Box Party |
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