rep the djs whose crates you’ve raided
erewhon
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Do you ever get a bunch of records with the same DJ's stamp or signature on 'em and think "damn, I wish I could hear this guy's set back when he was spinning" or wonder what kind of crowd the DJ played to? I want to give a shout out to DJ Tammy- whoever she is- for her impeccable taste in rare and particularly female-friendly early 80s electro, garage, euro-disco, hip-hop, new wave; for keeping her records in shrinkwrap in immaculate condition; for being a mysterious lady out there that I will never know. I wouldn't be surpised if some of her records have leaked out to some other soul strutters. I found one of her records in Athens, GA after having bought like 50 of them in Baltimore a year before!
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i've got an entire crate of stuff from a lesbian dj
bunch of stuff from a local 90's big wig DJ Matt C
and a grip of records with this cool stamp that says MO MO's on them
Zakia?
Peace
T.N.
More recently I was finding TONS of perfectly-cared-for hiphop 12"s from the 80s-90s in local used bins, all stamped with the name JOHNNIE COOL and BPMd with a little circular label in the corner. Then one day I saw some woman and her son bringing in some crates to sell, so I caught them outside the spot to see if I could cop what the store didn't buy. I knew I'd hit the source 'cos every record had the JOHNNIE COOL stamp. I gave them my card and within the week I got a call from Johnnie himself. Turns out he was a cousin of Doug Clark of the Hot Nuts (local soul group that did blue material mostly for UNC frats from the 1950s all the way to the 90s - they had tons of albums with a few funky cuts), and he DJ'd lots of parties in the 80s-90s. Eventually I went out to his house and he had this huge storage shed packed with thousands of records literally stacked four feet high. Luckily everything was in perfect shape, looking unplayed, often in shrink, and most of them BPM'd.
Here's what I got for $2 each:
2Pac: Dear Mama 12??? (promo) Interscope
45 King + Ced Gee: 900 Number + remixes 12??? (pic sleeve) Tuff City
69 Boyz: Tootsee Roll 12??? Downlow
A Tribe Called Quest: Electric Relaxation / Midnight 12??? (pic sleeve) Jive
Tha Alkholiks feat. ODB: Hip Hop Drunkies 12??? (pic sleeve) Loud
Arcade Gang feat. Rich Cason: Radio Activity Syndrome 12??? Rappers Rapp Disco Co.
Erykah Badu: Mama's Gun 2LP (red wax) Motown
Erykah Badu: Tyrone / (live) 12??? (promo) Motown
Barkays: Old School Mega Mix 12??? Basix
BB& O Band: On the Shelf / Dreamer 12??? In Your Face
Beastie Boys: Get It Together + remixes 12??? (promo) Grand Royal
Big Daddy Kane: How U Get A Record Deal 12??? (pic sleeve) Cold Chillin'
Big Daddy Kane: Smooth Operator / Warm It Up Kane 12??? (pic sleeve) Cold Chillin'
Big Daddy Kane: The Lover In You / Get Bizzy / Get Down 12??? Cold Chillin'
Biz Markie: Young Girl Bluez 12??? (promo pic sleeve) Cold Chillin
Black Sheep: Flavor of the Month / Butt... In the Meantime 12??? (pic sleeve) Mercury
Black Sheep: The Choice is Yours / Have U.N.E. Pull 12??? (pic sleeve) Mercury
Blackstreet: No Diggety remixes 12??? (promo) Interscope
Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop LP Jive
Boogie Down Productions: We In There / Feel the Vibe 12??? (orange wax) Jive
Brand Nubian: Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down / Remix 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Brick / Latin Rascals: Dazz (the Def Mix) 12??? Magic City
Bobby Brown: My Prerogative 12??? (pic sleeve) MCA
BWP: Two Minute Brother / We Want Money 12??? (pic sleeve) RAL
Chi-Ali: Roadrunner / The Fabulous Chi 12??? (pic sleeve) Relativity
Chubb Rock w/ Howie Tee: Ya Bad Chubbs 12??? (pic sleeve) Select
Code Red: Virginia Gone Go-Go 12??? Creative Funk
Common feat. Macy Gray: Geto Heaven remix TSOI 12??? (promo) MCA
Common Sense: Breaker 1/9 + remix 12??? (pic sleeve) Relativity
Count Coolout: Rhythm Rap Rock 12??? WMOT
Cybertron: Clear / Industrial Lies 12??? Fantasy
The D.O.C.: It's Funky Enough / No One Can Do It Better 12??? (pic sleeve) Ruthless
D Train: Keep Giving Me Love 12??? Prelude
Das Efx: Real Hip Hop + remixes 12??? (promo) East West
Das Efx: They Want Efx / Jussummen 12??? East West
Davy DMX: One for the Treble 12??? CBS / Tuff City
De La Soul: Breakadawn / En Focus 12??? (pic sleeve) Tommy Boy
De La Soul: Is Dead LP (promo) Tommy Boy
De La Soul: More Supa Sweet Stakes, Baby 12??? (pic sleeve promo, orange wax) Tommy Boy
De La Soul: Ring Ring Ring 12??? (promo) Tommy Boy
De La Soul: Stakes Is High / The Bizness 12??? (pic sleeve) Tommy Boy
Diamond & The Pyschotic Neurotics: Best Kept Secret / Freestyle 12??? (pic sleeve) PWL / Mercury
Digable Planets: Nickel Bags / Appointment at the Fat Clinic 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Digable Planets: Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) + remixes 12??? (pic sleeve) Pendulum
Digital Underground: Kiss You Back + remixes 12??? (promo) Tommy Boy
Disco 3: Fat Boys / International Lover / Human Beat Box 12??? (promo w/ lyric sheet) Sutra
DJ Quik: Quik Is the Name / Tha Bombudd 12??? (pic sleeve promo) Profile
DJ Quik: Tonite 12??? (pic sleeve promo) Profile
Kenny Dope: Dope Beats Vol. 3 LP Cuttin' Hiphop
Dr. Dre & Ice Cube: Natural Born Killaz / U Better Recognize 12??? (promo) Death Row
The Egyptian Lover: Egypt, Egypt + 3 12??? Freak Beat
EPMD: Gold Digger / Rap Is Outta Control 12??? (pic sleeve) RAL
EPMD feat. LL Cool J: Rampage / I'm Mad 12??? (pic sleeve) RAL
Eric B. & Rakim: Don't Sweat the Technique + remixes 12??? (pic sleeve promo) MCA
Freeez: Pop Goes My Love 12??? Streetwise
Fu Schnickens: Ring the Alarm 12??? (pic sleeve) Jive
Fu Schnickens: True Fuschnick / Props 12??? (pic sleeve) Jive
Funky 4 plus 1: That's the Joint / Inst. 12??? Sugarhill
Gang Starr: Full Clip / DWYCK 12??? (promo) Noo Trybe
Geto Boys: Mind Playin' Tricks On Me 12??? Rap-A-Lot
Geto Boys: Mind Playin' Tricks On Me 12??? (pic sleeve) Rap-A-Lot
Ghostface Killah feat. Raekwon & Cappadonna: Camay / Daytona 12??? (pic sleeve) Sony
Grand Puba: 360 (What Goes Around) + remixes (copy 1) 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Grand Puba: 360 (What Goes Around) + remixes (copy 2) 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Grand Puba: 360 (What Goes Around) + remixes (copy 3) 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Grand Puba: I Like It / remix 12??? (promo) Ruff House
Grand Puba feat. Mary J. Blige: Check It Out / That's How We Move It 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Grand Puba feat. Mary J. Blige: Ya Know How It Goes / Mind Your Business / Lickshot 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Reggie Griifin & Technofunk: Mirda-Rock / Inst. 12??? Sweet Mountain
Group Home: Livin' Proof / Supa Dupa Star 12??? (pic sleeve) Payday
Group Home: Supa Star / 12??? (pic sleeve) Payday
Group Home: Suspended In Time / The Realness 12??? (promo) Payday
Guru: No Time To Play / Trust Me 12??? (promo) Chrysalis
Ofra Haza: Ya Ba Ye / Ad'Asa 12??? (promo pic sleeve) Sire
Hip Hop Culture: Down South / The ???Message??? 12??? Perfection
Home Team: Pick It Up 12??? (promo) Luke
Indeep: When Boys Talk 12??? (promo) Sound of New York
The Invisibles: Donkey Kong (Catch You in the Break) / dub 12??? (promo) Ethnic
Michael Jackson: Wanna Be Startin' Somethin / Inst. 12??? Epic
Rick James: Glow / Inst. 12??? (promo) Motown
Jungle Brothers: Doin' Our Own Dang / U Make Me Sweat 12??? (pic sleeve promo) WB
Junior M.A.F.I.A. feat. Aaliyah: I Need You Tonight / Get Money 12??? Undeas / Big Beat
Jurassic 5: W.O.E. Is Me / Long Road to Glory 12??? (promo) Interscope
K-Solo: Letterman / The Formula 12??? Atlantic
Kelis: Caught Out There 12??? (pic sleeve promo) Virgin
KMD: Peachfuzz / Gasface Refill 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Kool G Rap: 4, 5, 6 2LP Cold Chillin
Kool G Rap: It's A Shame + mixes 12??? (promo) Cold Chillin'
Kool Moe Dee: Death Blow 12??? (pic sleeve promo) CBS / Tuff City
Kool Moe Dee feat. Chuck D & KRS-ONE: How Kool Can One Blackman Be? 12??? (pic sleeve promo) Jive
Kool Moe Dee feat. Chuck D & KRS-ONE: Rise'n' Shine 12??? Jive
Kriss Kross: Jump / Lil Boyz In Da Hood 12??? (pic sleeve) Ruff House
Kriss Kross: Warm It Up 12??? (pic sleeve) Ruff House
Kriss Kross feat. Supercat: Jump remixes 12??? (pic sl eeve) Ruff House
KRS-ONE: MC's Act Like They Don't Know 12??? (promo) Def Jam
KRS-ONE: Sound of Da Police / Hip Hop vs. Rap 12??? (pic sleeve) Jive
Laid Back: Sunshine Reggae / White Horse 12??? (promo pic sleeve) Sire
LL Cool J: I Can Give You More / I Can't Live Without My Radio 12??? Def Jam
Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz: Deja Vu (Uptown Baby) / Marmalade 12??? (pic sleeve) Columbia
Lords of the Underground: Psycho + remix 12??? (promo) Pendulum
Luniz: I Got 5 On It / So Much Drama 12??? (promo) Noo Trybe
Madonna: Borderline (inst.) 12??? (promo pic sleeve) Sire
Main Source: Fakin' the Funk + remix 12??? Wild Pitch
Malcolm X: Speaks LP (promo) WB
Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch: Wildside / 12??? (pic sleeve) Interscope
Bob Marley: Reggae On Broadway (long) / short 12??? (promo) Cotillion
Mary Jane Girls: In My House / Inst. 12??? (promo) Motown
Barbara Mason: Another Man 12??? (promo) West End
MC Brains: Oochie Coochie 12??? (pic sleeve) Motown
MC Lyte: I Cram To Understand You (S.A.M.) 12??? First Priority
MC Lyte: Poor Georgie / Search 4 The Lyte 12??? First Priority
MC Serch: Back to the Grill / Daze In A Weak 12??? (pic sleeve) Chaos
Monie Love: Born to B.R.E.E.D. + remixes 12??? (pic sleeve promo) WB
Monie Love: Down To Earth / Don't Funk Wid The Mo 12??? (pic sleeve promo) WB
Naughty By Nature: Hip Hop Hooray / The Hood Comes First 12??? (promo) Tommy Boy
Nice & Smooth: Hip Hop Junkies/ remix 12??? (pic sleeve) RAL
Nice & Smooth: Sometimes I Rhyme Slow / Hip Hop Junkies (copy 1) 12??? (pic sleeve) RAL
Nice & Smooth: Sometimes I Rhyme Slow / Hip Hop Junkies (copy 2) 12??? (pic sleeve) RAL
Noreaga: Superthug 12??? (promo) Violator
Paris: One Time For Your Mind 12??? (promo) Priority
Patra: Pull Up To the Bumper 12??? (promo) Epic
Patra: Pull Up To the Bumper 12??? (pic sleeve) Epic
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Lots of Lovin' / It's Not A Game 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Mecca & The Soul Brother 2LP (promo) Elektra
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Searching 12??? (promo) Elektra
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Straighten It Out + remix / TROY remix 12??? (promo) Elektra
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Take You There / Get on the Mic 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Take You There / Get on the Mic 12??? (promo) Elektra
Pete Rock & CL Smooth: TROY / Creator 12??? (pic sleeve) Elektra
Pharcyde: Passin' Me By / Pork 12??? (pic sleeve) Delicious Vinyl
Pharcyde: Runnin' / Drop 12??? (pic sleeve) Delicious Vinyl
PM Dawn: Set Adrift on Memory Bliss / Watcher's Point of View 12??? (pic sleeve) Island
Power Supply Feat. Afro-Rican: Put Your Weight Down On It 12??? Hip Rock
Professor Griff: Jail Sale 12??? (promo) Luke
Professor Griff: Verbal Intercourse 12??? (promo) Luke
Professor Griff & The Last Asiatic Disciples: Pawns in the Game / Last Asiatic Disciples 12??? (pic sleeve) Skyywalker
Public Enemy: 911 Is A Joke / Revolutionary Generation 12??? (pic sleeve) Def Jam
Public Enemy: Night of the Living Baseheads / Cold Lampin' / T-X to the Edge of Panic 12??? (pic sleeve) Def Jam
Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terror Dome / Flavor Flave 12??? (pic sleeve) Def Jam
QB's Finest: Oochie Wally (remix) / Teenage Thug 12??? (promo) Columbia
Queen Latifah: Dance for Me / Inside Out 12??? (pic sleeve) Tommy Boy
Queen Latifah: Wrath of My Madness / Princess of the Posse 12??? Tommy Boy
The Lady of Rage: Afro Puffs 12??? (pic sleeve) Death Row
Rakim: It's Been A Long Time 12??? (promo) Universal
Rare Essence: Lock-It 12??? Sounds of the Capital
Rockers Revenge feat. Donnie Calvin: Rockin' On Sunshine 12??? Streetwise
RUN-DMC: Hard Times/ Jam Master Jay 12??? (promo) Profil
The RZA: Hits 2LP Epic
Scarface: Minute To Pray, Second to Die / I'm Dead (copy 1) 12??? Rap-A-Lot
Scarface: Minute To Pray, Second to Die / I'm Dead (copy 2) 12??? Rap-A-Lot
Shello: West Coast Boogie 12??? (promo pic sleeve) Giant
Showbiz & AG: Fat Pockets 12??? (pic sleeve) Payday
Son Of Bazerk: Change the Style / J Dub's Theme 12??? (pic sleeve) SOUL
The SOS Band: S.O.S. 12??? (promo) Tabu
Jimmy Spicer: Adventures of Super Rhyme 12??? (silver/black/red label) Dazz
Stetsasonic: In Full Gear LP Tommy Boy
Stetsasonic: Speaking of a Girl Named Suzy / Anytime, Anyplace 12??? (pic sleeve) Tommy Boy
Stop the Violence Movement: Self-Destruction 12??? (pic sleeve) Jive
Stylz & The J.I.Z feat. Southside B.O.I.Z: Swing Low 12??? (promo) Tony Mercedes
Tout Sweet: Another Man Is Twice As Nice 12??? Buzz
Treacherous Three: Whip It 12??? Sugarhill
A Tribe Called Quest: Check the Rhime / Skypager 12??? (pic sleeve) Jive
A Tribe Called Quest: Find A Way / Steppin' It Up 12??? (pic sleeve promo ) Jive
A Tribe Called Quest: Hot Sex / Scenario remix / Everything Is Fair 12??? (pic sleeve) Jive
UB40: Red Red Wine / Dance With the Devil 12??? (promo) A&M
Various Breaks: Drumdrops Vol. 10 LP Big Break
Various Dancehall: Dancehall Kings II / Dancehall Queens sampler 12??? (promo) Blunt
Various House music: Sound of Chicago Vol. II LP DJ International
X-Clan: Grand Verbalizer 12??? 4th & Bway
Yella: Yella!! / Dub 12??? Antilles
Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart (dance version) / Our Song 12??? (pic sleeve) Atco
Yo-Yo feat. Ice Cube: You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo (copy 1) 12??? Eastwest
Yo-Yo feat. Ice Cube: You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo (copy 2) 12??? Eastwest
Young Black Teenagers: Tap the Bottle 12??? (promo pic sleeve) Sound of Urban Listeners
Young-Holt Unlimited: Plays Super Fly LP Paula
Zhigge: Toss It Up 12??? (pic sleeve) Polydor
Yes. Early morning brain. Thank you
Min*s
Disco D*c
are the main ones.... the first two specialised in b-boy braeks so you don't just find one copy of Spider Rap, Pleasure S/T, Treach 3, you find 2... not all rinked either!
I used to have nightmares that they would come knocking on my door demanding their stuff back coz their mom wasn't supposed to throw it out.
Not really, but the nuts did a photoshoot in front of my home last November coz it's
i've got one of his records .. found it at a flea market a couple years... kinda raunchy lo fi weird fratty stuff.
Right. Most of their stuff is strictly novelty and not funky at all. And I guess I'm using the term pretty loosely when I say they have "a few funky cuts" but the album I'm thinking of is FREAK OUT, which is the coolest-looking of theirs I've seen - a real grimy 60s-looking cover shot of the group in a weird room holding hookahs and (of course) giving you the finger. A couple of songs are mildly funky:
Here's more on local fixture Doug Clark
http://www.endlessgroove.com/issue2/dougc.htm
With such classics as,
"What word begins with F and ends with U-C-K?
I dunno.
FIRETRUCK."
Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts released nine albums on their own Gross label. Recorded live, the albums have a definite party atmosphere.
By live, they must mean "we looped a crowd laughing" over and over again.
Who does that? It was a set up.
Thank you, DJ P, for helping me rock several parties. I bet your sets were killer; it's clear that you were well prepared.
*Not the DJ P that's down with Z-Trip, clearly.
real headz mark at 9:45
it was during the day, I honestly think it got left behind during load in or something...
come up on 12" singles with the logo "NATE THE BARTENDER" written
on the sleeves or label in big black marker. Many years later,
I mat my main man Nate through a hookup at the local wax spot.
Dude was dying of cancer, and was looking to unload the rest of
his wax.
The rest of his wax was totally thrashed, unfourtunately, but I
had a great time talking and drinking PBR with the dude for an hour.
Turns out dude was the bartender at an old club here, and actually
HAD THE 1200's BEHIND THE BAR, AND POURED DRANKS AND SPUN AT THE SAME TIME!
I probably have 2-300 "Nate The Bartender" joints, all 12" singles.
Some are kinda whipped, but I just love the serendipity.
I thought this would have been a blowup thread considering how many "diggers" there are round here, but maybe eBay has scattered this sort of shit far and wide across the US/UK/Japan/Germany.
As for the obviously non-DJs writing their names on their records, seems girls did it a lot more than guys. Was this coz they were being all girly or to stop their brothers stealing that shit!?
Another time I bough about 250 hip-hop 12"s from a guy named Dwayne Coles who was a DJ in Connecticut from the early 80's til the mid-90's. All the 12"s have "DC" on them. He was getting married and his fiancee said "it's me or the records!"
In the same spot, I bought some hiphop 12"s and Lp's, with the name "Lamont" written on it. it's the same Lamont who is on soulstrut once in a while
impetuous gents productions
charles bailey
Was she named Amy by any chance? And is she remarrying a british "soulboy"?