Hip Hop week on NPR's Fresh Air
billbradley
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So who "invented" DJ'ing with breakbeats if it wasn't Kool Herc?
yeah isn't this Kool Hercs claim to fame? Bringing his set up to parties/ the park and playing breakbeats back-to-back?
The Break was called the Jump Uppart of the song and Pete "DJ" Jones used to count the grooves in his records and just play the Jump Up over and over... thus creating a break.
Pete DJ Jones Interview
Pete has some crazy stories and is one of the nicest people you'll meet. He used to play professional Ball in the 50s as well, dude has a lot of history.
DOH! we were posting the same thing at the same time.
Based on what I've gleaned over the years, Pete 'DJ' Jones and others such as Grandmaster Flowers played a more uptown (read: smooth/club) sound whereas Herc in their wake focused more on the Latin-tinged percussive breaks that appealed to his crowd: Escovedo, Incredible Bongo Band, Caster, etc. - or is this a misread?
I'm guessing there had to be a difference in style/ what they were spinning
That first Terri Gross-RZA interview was great. Lots of awkward moments when RZA starts talking about sex and stuff...She even drops a little Prince Rakeem joint in the interview. Is that the one they are playing? They need to get Ghost in the studio with Terri this time. (The NPR studio that is
from that interview posted above:
JQ : Do you feel that your name has been unfairly left out of Hip Hop history ? (Flash does mention that you were the first person he saw spin 2 copies of a record.....and the first with a cue on your mixer)
PJ : Well I was a club Dj downtown....you had to be an adult to get into the places I played . Therefore some guys talk about Flash , Herc and Bambaataa because they were park Djs.....anyone could go to the park, there was no age limit ,but they were too young to see me .
Yeh it broke down to an age difference really... But nah Pete rocked with fatback and also would rock Fatback, JBs, etc. Probably not as much Latin influence but he was rockin alot of the famous breaks we all know of. And also Pete never said he felt that herc's redit was not due, he just wanted it clear that people should know there were plenty fo DJs that paved the way ahead of Herc... Including himself.. Shit lovebug Starski carried Pete's crates, he said herc and red Alert used to try and sneak around seeing what Jump Ups he was playing... Also you should ask him about when he battled Grandmaster Flash when Flash was upa nd coming. pete was the biggest DJ at the time and they asked him to Battle and lose to Flash to help him get more recognition... Stories upon stories.
The R-Z-A is becoming quite the media darling, no? This event is already sold out:
Stage to Studio
When performers produce.
Sasha Frere-Jones, moderator. With Steve Albini, Ani DiFranco, Ric Ocasek, and the RZA.
Sasha Frere-Jones is the pop-music critic for The New Yorker. From 1991 to 2003, he was a member of the band Ui, whose albums include ???Answers,??? ???Lifelike,??? and ???Sidelong.??? In 1998, he released ???Standing Upright on a Curve,??? a solo guitar album. He is currently finishing an album of loud rock songs.
Steve Albini is a guitarist, recording engineer, and occasional music writer. Formerly a member of the bands Big Black and Rapeman, he currently plays with the group Shellac. He has overseen the making of the albums ???In Utero,??? by Nirvana, and ???Surfer Rosa,??? by the Pixies, among many others.
Ani DiFranco is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She produced her first sixteen solo albums and co-produced her seventeenth, ???Knuckle Down,??? which was released this year. She has also produced recordings by the artists Dan Bern, Janis Ian, and the group Bitch and Animal, and co-produced Drums & Tuba and Hammell on Trial for her Righteous Babe Records label.
Ric Ocasek was the front man for the rock band the Cars, which sold more than twenty-five million albums in the nineteen-seventies and eighties. He has produced recordings by Bad Brains, Guided by Voices, Hole, Weezer, and No Doubt, and served as vice-president of artists and repertoire at Elektra. His solo albums include ???Troublizing??? and ???Nexterday.???
The RZA, whose real name is Robert Diggs, is a founding member of the hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. He has produced all their albums and also the solo efforts of Method Man and the late ODB. As a film composer, his credits include ???Kill Bill: Vol. 1,??? which was nominated for a BAFTA, and ???Kill Bill: Vol. 2.??? He is the author of ???The Wu-Tang Manual,??? published this year, and will star in ???Derailed,??? with Clive Owen.
4 p.M. Times Square Studio
1500 Broadway
(Note: All programming is subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, visit www.newyorker.com. Tickets available online at ticketmaster.com, at all outlets, or by phone: call 1-877-391-0545.)
http://festival.newyorker.com/
like the part where he's talking about having sex at age 12 or whatever?