Boombox 1 (Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-82)
Soul Jazz Records' new Boombox features some of the many innovative underground first-wave of rap records made in New York in the period 1979-82, all released on small, independent, often family-concern record companies, at a time when hip-hop music still remained under the radar.
This first exuberant wave of innocent, upbeat, party on the block rap records were the first to try and create the sounds heard in community centres, block parties and street jams that first took place in the Bronx in the mid-1970s. But where Flash, Kool Herc and Bambaataa were back-spinning, mixing and scratching together now classic breakbeat records like The Incredible Bongo Band's Apache or Babe Ruth's The Mexican, these first rap records were all made using live bands, often replaying then current disco tunes, whilst MCs rapped over the top, creating a unique sound that later became known derisively as old school.
- At The Place To Be
- Positive Life
- Body Rock
- Philosophy Rappin' Spree
- Move Your Body
- On The Go
- Rappers Convention
- Willie Rap
- Searching Rap
- One More Time
- The New Rap Language
- And You Know That
- Cop Bop
- We Are People Too
- Boogie Feelin' Rap
- Equidity Funk
Soul Jazz Records' new Boombox features some of the many innovative underground first-wave of rap records made in New York in the period 1979-82, all released on small, independent, often family-concern record companies, at a time when hip-hop music still remained under the radar.
This first exuberant wave of innocent, upbeat, party on the block rap records were the first to try and create the sounds heard in community centres, block parties and street jams that first took place in the Bronx in the mid-1970s. But where Flash, Kool Herc and Bambaataa were back-spinning, mixing and scratching together now classic breakbeat records like The Incredible Bongo Band's Apache or Babe Ruth's The Mexican, these first rap records were all made using live bands, often replaying then current disco tunes, whilst MCs rapped over the top, creating a unique sound that later became known derisively as old school.
Tracklisting
- At The Place To Be
- Positive Life
- Body Rock
- Philosophy Rappin' Spree
- Move Your Body
- On The Go
- Rappers Convention
- Willie Rap
- Searching Rap
- One More Time
- The New Rap Language
- And You Know That
- Cop Bop
- We Are People Too
- Boogie Feelin' Rap
- Equidity Funk
