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Flash is fast, Flash is cool

Pedro_NortePedro_Norte 84 Posts
edited June 2005 in Strut Central
Whether pitching Converse with Wade or sitting courtside at the playoffs, it's good to see this legend in the public eye.For those with a flair for the old school, here are a few things of interest:http://www.wfmu.org/special.php/MLGreat interview interspersed with Flash on the 1&2s.http://www.oldschoolhiphop.com/liveshows.htmGF & The Furious Five are tight, but I can see where the Funky 4 + 1 gave them a run for their money.

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  • Phill_MostPhill_Most 4,594 Posts

    http://www.oldschoolhiphop.com/liveshows.htm

    GF & The Furious Five are tight, but I can see where the Funky 4 + 1 gave them a run for their money.


    Good post, Pedro. I'm always happy to see dudes today give respect to the pioneers.
    The Furious were definitely number one in that era. And BTW, the clip that they have on that site is a great piece of history- note that it's Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Four, before Rahiem left the Funky Four and joined them. Also almost a year before Rapper's Delight dropped!
    Flash and them were on top back then, basically because they invented all of this shizz. But, as always happens in Hip Hop, in time other crews built on their innovations and really did surpass them as far as having rhymes and routines (just my opinion). So if you hear most of the old school tapes that survived from back then, the illest ones are probably the Cold Crush, Fantastic Five, Force MC's etc. The joints with Flash on the beatbox are still some of my favorite old school moments, though.

    Nothing but props to the man GM Flash, regardless. Without him Hip Hop as we know it today probably wouldn't even exist. Plus on a personal note he was one of the coolest dudes I ever had the pleasure to interview back when I was with Rapsheet (all of the old school dudes were mad cool, though).
  • MjukisMjukis 1,675 Posts
    Great post, I did not know about that old school archive. I don't own any old school tapes or anything like that so this is truly amazing. More efforts like these please. Homepages, cd reissues, I'm up for it.
  • DeeRockDeeRock 1,836 Posts
    Excellent shit man, thanks. Now, Phil or anyone. Can you please identify the breaks cut at these times on the mix:

    16:52 he cuts up a record that I never knew what it was but is very familiar where the music is sort of a rising sound. What is this?

    2nd one is at 45:03 and is the drem break before he cuts up "Keep your distance"

    Help please?
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Excellent shit man, thanks. Now, Phil or anyone. Can you please identify the breaks cut at these times on the mix:

    16:52 he cuts up a record that I never knew what it was but is very familiar where the music is sort of a rising sound. What is this?SING SING CLASSIC BREAKBEAT!!!

    2nd one is at 45:03 and is the drem break before he cuts up "Keep your distance"
    HEAVEN AND HELL CLASSIC BREAKBEAT!!!
    Help please?
  • DeeRockDeeRock 1,836 Posts
    What? I will have to listen again. Maybe I wrote the time down wrong. If it is then I am totally lame and it's time to quit! Lol.

  • Phill_MostPhill_Most 4,594 Posts
    are you sure you're talking about the Flash & The Furious 4 soundclip? From those descriptions I think you're talking about something else. If I have time I'll try to listen to the other clips they have up on that site and see if I can decipher the mystery.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    I think he means the mix that takes place in the Grandmaster Flash version of the radio show on the first link:

    http://www.wfmu.org/special.php/ML

    Not the old school live tapes link...

    I wanna know what those drums are at 45:03, too...sounds like something familiar but with the instruments phased out...


    direct link to the Flash show:

    http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=3558
  • TSGTSG 274 Posts
    nice to see this. rahiem before furious recruited him. he's underrated as a pioneer.
  • Phill_MostPhill_Most 4,594 Posts
    Okay, I gotcha... the first one is Booker T & the MG's, the album with like an outer space scene with a planet on the cover. Classic old school beat, can't think of the title right now. Used on Big Daddy Kane's "Set It Off".
    I know the other one too, just can't think of it right now. Very basic record, I'm pretty sure.

    That mix is from that Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash cd that he put out a couple of years ago. ESSENTIAL. Buy it, download it, whatever (although I recommend buying it)... it's a must have.
  • volumenvolumen 2,532 Posts
    Don't forget he basically invented the transformer "unit" as it applies to DJ's. Was it called the Flash Box or something??? They had one in the EMP up here in Seattle, not sure if that display is still up. Not sure of all the details and what it did exactly, but I think it was just a basic on/off switch box. Am I getting this right??
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Okay, I gotcha... the first one is Booker T & the MG's, the album with like an outer space scene with a planet on the cover. Classic old school beat, can't think of the title right now. Used on Big Daddy Kane's "Set It Off".
    I know the other one too, just can't think of it right now. Very basic record, I'm pretty sure.

    That mix is from that Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash cd that he put out a couple of years ago. ESSENTIAL. Buy it, download it, whatever (although I recommend buying it)... it's a must have.



    I have been passing over that Booker T record in a local store for the past month...not that I thought it didn't look dope, but it's a spot where you have to whittle down your choices and make "cuts" because there are always more good records than you (or at least I) can afford, and it just never got in the mix - but if I knew that it had the "Set it Off" break, I woulda been DONE bought that ish!! Now you KNOW when I go back it will be gone...yeah, yeah, I know, fuck a braek and all that, but that doesn't apply to "Long Live the Kane" breaks....those are to be bought on sight!!
  • volumenvolumen 2,532 Posts
    Okay, I gotcha... the first one is Booker T & the MG's, the album with like an outer space scene with a planet on the cover. Classic old school beat, can't think of the title right now. Used on Big Daddy Kane's "Set It Off".
    I know the other one too, just can't think of it right now. Very basic record, I'm pretty sure.

    That mix is from that Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash cd that he put out a couple of years ago. ESSENTIAL. Buy it, download it, whatever (although I recommend buying it)... it's a must have.


    If that mix is on that LP then all the awnsers should be there. I'm pretty sure every break is listed in the fine print of the credits.
  • Phill_MostPhill_Most 4,594 Posts
    I have been passing over that Booker T record in a local store for the past month...not that I thought it didn't look dope, but it's a spot where you have to whittle down your choices and make "cuts" because there are always more good records than you (or at least I) can afford, and it just never got in the mix - but if I knew that it had the "Set it Off" break, I woulda been DONE bought that ish!! Now you KNOW when I go back it will be gone...yeah, yeah, I know, fuck a braek and all that, but that doesn't apply to "Long Live the Kane" breaks....those are to be bought on sight!!

    Well, of course the actual drumbreak on "Set It Off" is Grady Tate's "Be Black baby" 45. The Booker T. part is just used on the chorus. Still, it's a classic and it should be cheap, so you may as well cop it next time you come across it. I think there's some other hotness on that album too (haven't listened to it in eons, though).
  • peacefulrotationpeacefulrotation 3,481 Posts


    That mix is from that Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash cd that he put out a couple of years ago. ESSENTIAL. Buy it, download it, whatever (although I recommend buying it)... it's a must have.

    Cosign, an amazing collection of live mega mixes and whathaveyou.
  • spcspc 534 Posts
    Okay, I gotcha... the first one is Booker T & the MG's, the album with like an outer space scene with a planet on the cover. Classic old school beat, can't think of the title right now. Used on Big Daddy Kane's "Set It Off".
    I know the other one too, just can't think of it right now. Very basic record, I'm pretty sure.

    Thanks!
    That's the second time you mention a break on a record I've been having on the shelf for some time and just kept it for the cover. I think I should start listening to my records
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts



    http://www.oldschoolhiphop.com/liveshows.htm

    GF & The Furious Five are tight, but I can see where the Funky 4 + 1 gave them a run for their money.

    Just wanted to say thanks for posting this shit...I've been listening to them non-stop the last couple of days...


    ...Afrika Bambaataa best summed up by that musta been one hell of a lightshow...
  • Mr_Lee_PHDMr_Lee_PHD 2,042 Posts
    Ahhhhhhh this stuff is reeaaaaallllly fressshhhhhhhhhhhh.

    I cant get enough of that mc and an echo chamber vibe.
  • mordecaimordecai 2,204 Posts
    Ok break specialists...can i get any ID's on the breaks Flash rocks in "Wild Style"??
    mp3 of the set in question here...
    http://www.doublestandardcrew.com/audio/misctemp/flashwild.mp3

    good looks
  • Phill_MostPhill_Most 4,594 Posts
    Ok break specialists...can i get any ID's on the breaks Flash rocks in "Wild Style"??
    mp3 of the set in question here...
    http://www.doublestandardcrew.com/audio/misctemp/flashwild.mp3

    good looks

    Ohhhhh snap! They took out the "Mardi Gras" and replaced it with some other shizz!!! Well, the first beat is Headhunters "God Make Me Funky". The second beat is suppossed to be Bob James "Mardi Gras", but it's been replaced (except for the little intro drum taps that Flash is cutting up) with a whole new beat that is very Mardi-Gras-esque! Daaaaamn...

    Where is that clip from, a new Wildstyle DVD or something? I think I do remember there being a litte legal tiff going on about them using the Bob James breakbeat in the movie.
  • mordecaimordecai 2,204 Posts
    Where is that clip from, a new Wildstyle DVD or something? I think I do remember there being a litte legal tiff going on about them using the Bob James breakbeat in the movie.
    Wild Style DVD. Its when they are rolling out the linoleum and breaking in the park, Fab 5 Freddy is watching Flash do his thing in the kitchen.
  • speshboogiespeshboogie 105 Posts
    Wild Style DVD. Its when they are rolling out the linoleum and breaking in the park, Fab 5 Freddy is watching Flash do his thing in the kitchen.

    It's on my VHS copy.
    One of my most all time favorite movie scenes ever.

  • Pedro_NortePedro_Norte 84 Posts
    Yeah, I was all hyped when the DVD came out only to read about that alternative mardi gras beat on an Amazon customer review. Does anybody have the original on MP3?
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