theeman
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here's a great interview with Big Tony from Trouble Funk, loads of info about their early releases too. http://www.jayquan.com/trouble.htm
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an interesting aspect of the DC scene that gets briefly mentioned in the book is the respect between the hardcore scene and the go-go scene. henry rollins used to check the go-go bands and put out tapes... there's interviews with him somewhere onlin…
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oh yeah, labels to look out for: Jamtu (early Trouble Funk and a few others, pretty rare) DETT (more early Trouble Funk) TEDD (early releases are hot, loses it as the 80s go on) Future (early releases real tough to find, killer, not as well distrib…
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old school go-go is still pretty slept-on outside DC. about 5 years ago i did a go-go mix for Soul Strut (maybe Raj still has a copy, mine's long gone) that included maybe 40 mins of quality old school go-go, from obvious tracks to obscure stuff. fo…