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Old Rap Wednesdays: The Rub Radio History of Hip-Hop Volume 1: 1979

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therub Old Rap Wednesdays: The Rub Radio History of Hip-Hop Volume 1: 1979

Thank you, The Rub! Brooklyn heavyweight DJs Ayres, Cosmo Baker & Eleven, collectively known as The Rub, have recently created an eleven part mix series for BrooklynRadio.net that blends the bestest and most favoritest hip-hop tracks from each year; 1979 to 1889!

Let’s start at the top of the list. For your listening pleasure: Rub Radio History of Hip-Hop: Volume 1: 1979 (and only 1979!):

Tracklist:

  1. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Superappin’
  2. The Younger Generation - We Rap More Mellow
  3. Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rap
  4. Sequence - Funk You Up
  5. Funky 4 + 1 - Rapping and Rocking the House
  6. Lady D - Lady D
  7. Ron Hunt - Spiderap
  8. Fatback Band - King Tim III (Personality Jock)
  9. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight
  10. Lady B - To the Beat Y’all
  11. Paulette & Tanya Winley - Rhymin’ and Rappin’
  12. Jazzy 4 MCs - MC Rock


MP3: The Rub - Brooklyn Radio Hip Hop History Vol. 1 1979 (02-05-2007) [45:53 / 42MB]

You can (and should!) stream/download the other 10 mixes for years 1980-1989 (as well as many other mixes) from The Rub’s page on BrooklynRadio.net and grab the tracklist for each mix from this Low-Bee forum post. These mixes should be in some expensive legacy box set—but they’re not! They’re free so grab them now! And The Rub promises to tackle years 1990 and beyond this summer so stay tuned.

Visit The Rub at MySpace and stream more tracks. Visit their online store and buy their remix albums, mix albums or the ‘Sunglasses is a Must’ double-disc album they cut with A-Trak.

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Bjork @ Coachella: ‘Declare Your Independence’ with reacTable

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[Be warned: amateur video]

We’re back from Coachella! First let me address what seems to be a hot topic: What in the hell was that crazy instrument that was featured in the finale of Björk’s set?

Of course, any of our regular readers in the audience already saw this post and knew the ‘crazy instrument’ to be The reacTable (read react+table), or, a “multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface”. And, if it’s not the original, it must be a facsimile based on the open-source reacTIVision 1.3 framework. All amazing things created by the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

The finale of her set was a new song titled, ‘Declare Independence’, from her forthcoming, ‘Volta’ album which is being released in on May 8th in the US and is available for pre-order right now on Amazon.

Presumably, the studio recording of ‘Declare Independence’ uses the reacTable that was employed in the live performance. Here is the studio version of ‘Declare Independence’ for your inspection—Listen and love:


MP3: Björk - Declare Independence

And because I’m a total Björk fanboy, here are some more goodies that you might not have heard yet.

First, A remix of a classic by the always-on-point DJ Ayres (of The Rub):


MP3: Björk - Hyperballad (DJ Ayres Remix 2 Short)

Second, a cool little medley/blend by DJ B-Ju that we snatched from ChazBlog in this recent post:


MP3: B-Ju - Björk vs D-Styles (13 min. mix)

Third, some Vitalic remix goodness from a 2005 12″ white label:


MP3: Björk - Who Is It (Vitalic Mix)

And lastly, hear what happens when Spank Rock gets ahold of one of Björk’s brand-spankin’ new track, ‘Earth Invaders’ (snatched from Analog Giant, respect!):


MP3: Björk - Earth Intruders (Spank Rock Remix)

You can visit Björk at her MySpace or official site.

Many of the Coachella performances, including Björk, were filmed professionally and broadcast at the AT&T Blue Room, and there should be an archive of the show going up sometime soon. But for those who can’t wait, there’s plenty more ameature footage of varying quality, like the video displayed above, on YouTube.

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