Hardcore Podcasts
September of 2010 I put together eight Hardcore Podcasts. You can check them out here if you are interested. For more insight into how I came up with the years 78-90 for the First Wave you can read about The Hardcore Superiorty Myth.
Category Archives: Funk
Minimal Compact – Minimal Compact
Minimal Compact – Minimal Compact – Statik Dancin’, Creation Is Perfect (I Am A Camera), Ready-Made Diary // To Get Inside, Happy Babouge (Crammed Discs) 1981. The first Minimal Compact EP immediately maps out the two distinct personalities of the … Continue reading
Lovebug Starski & The Harlem World Crew – Positive Life
Lovebug Starski & The Harlem World Crew – Positive Life (Vocal) // Positive Life (Instrumental) (Tayster Records) 1981. Another classic by the Little Starski, this is one of the last party records ever recorded and it definitely goes out with … Continue reading
Reggie Griffin and Technofunk – Mirda Rock
Reggie Griffin and Technofunk – Mirda Rock (Sweet Mountain Records) 1982. People are inherently flawed. The human race has never and will never leave any perfect artefact behind because we are imperfect. The role of art in all of this … Continue reading
The Patty Duke
Patrick Adams (pictured) and Peter Brown: Back in the early days of hip-hop before Run DMC and LL Cool J, rappers would rock the mic over a backup track. Usually the backup track was the B-Side of a disco single. … Continue reading
The Dance – Dance For Your Dinner
The Dance – Dance For Your Dinner (Go Go Records) 1980. The Dance were a no-wave band from the early 1980′s in New York. One of their best tracks called Do Dada is available on the amazing New York Noise … Continue reading
The Sugar Hill Gang – The Sugarhill Groove
The Sugar Hill Gang – 8th Wonder // Sugar Hill Groove (Sugar Hill Records) 1980. One of the more obscure Sugar Hill tracks is the B-Side to 8th Wonder by the Sugar Hill Gang entitled The Sugar Hill Groove and … Continue reading
!!! – Louisville, KY May 25 2007
Just got back from Louisville where I saw !!! at The Headliners Ballroom. It was my first show in Louisville, which is a city I have always muscially admired from a distance. I don’t know what it is about Lousiville … Continue reading
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Old School Rap
Photo from Yes Yes Y’all Rap was the first music I ever got into. The first record I ever owned was 8th Wonder by The Sugarhill Gang. I didn’t really listen to “white” music until I got bussed in junior … Continue reading
The Offs – 2 Singles
Previously I posted First Record by The Offs. I pointed out that this album could win an award for most under-rated new wave LP ever. A lot of the criticism of the LP stems from the perception that it does … Continue reading
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The Younger Generation – We Rap More Mellow
As you can imagine, labels in the late 1970′s didn’t know what the fuck to do with early rap music. First of all, there was no band. Second, no singers in the conventional sense. Rap was conceived of as a … Continue reading