VA - Sugar Hill Club Classics (1998)

I`m not having many time and because of that there`s a lack of ideas about what to post.

So let`s continue with "beggining" plus "ways to make music"!!

I know many people will say who the prat doesn`t know Sugar Hill Gang?? Well, sad but true, I used to be one of them...

Others will say that they didn`t start anything! BUT who could imagine that in 1979 these guys would make a 14 min hip hop record??? AND that this music would hit in the whole world a genre that was not heard in other country but US?? SO, they deserve to be recognised at least as one of hip hop precussor.

Now lets talk about making music.

First of all, listen Rapper`s Delight by Sugar Hill Gang:


Now, listen to Good Times by Chic:


Well, probably you`ve got it. It`s almost th same music, isn`t it??

Yes, people call it "sampling". Why is it called like that? `cause the DJ captures a sample of the track and repeats (loops) it over and over. That`s the ways Hip Hop should always be: DJ sampling and MC`s rhyming. Unfortunately, some "modern" hip hop producers seem to have forgotten this basics and have been making bad music in my poor opinion..

So if you want to expand your hip hop knowlegde you shouldn`t look to the current hip hop scene but to the former one. And (guess what?) here comes a wonderful double-CD-old-school-Hip-Hop-set.

"Back to the Old School"

Tracklist Disc 1:
1. Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang
2. Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel - Grandmaster Flash
3. Pump Me Up - Trouble Funk
4. Break Dancin' (Electric Boogie) - West Street Mob
5. Spoonin' Rap - Spoonie Gee
6. We Got the Funk [US Re-Edit] - Positive Force
7. Breaking Bells (Take Me to the Mardi Gras) - Crash Crew
8. White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
9. Yes We Can Can - Treacherous Three
10. I Can't Stop - West Street Mob

Tracklist Disc 2
1. Message - Duke Bootee, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel
2. Monster Jam - The Sequence, Spoonie Gee
3. Drop the Bomb - Trouble Funk
4. Apache - The Sugarhill Gang
5. Scorpio - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
6. That's the Joint - Funky 4 + 1
7. Mosquito (Aka Hobo Scratch) - West Street Mob
8. Step Off - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel
9. Spoonie Is Back - Spoonie Gee
10. Turn It Up - Kool Moe Dee, Treacherous Three

BUY IT!

(320) Part 1, 2, 3, 4.

Just for curiosity:

Chic is a disco band from a moment in which Disco Music was clearly declining, probably they`re one of the last groups that became famous producing Disco. Famous tracks also include "We are Family" and "Le Freak".

So, here you`re getting some information about the death of Disco Era but you could check in previous posts that it`s still alive in the NuDisco scene.

See yo!!