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Paul Winley released Afrika Bambaataa - Death Mix Live in 1983 . It was a cassette to vinyl transfer of an event which was recorded at James Monroe High School, Bronx, N.Y.
The audio quality is poor but it is a rare quintessential glimspe of the disco rap era of Hip Hop. With infectious breaks , vocal delay , record skipping.
Ive contacted many people from the tape trading , old school scene & also the Universities which archive Hip hop. All ive found is an excerpt from a interview with AB in a David Toop book. I would welcome more details.
part one
part two
Death Mix live!!! Online version.
Audio sources.
MC's.. Master Ice , Sundance
A side.
The Jackson 5 - It's Great to Be Here.
Grand master Flash and The Furious Five - Superappin
Joey D. Vieira - Straight Rock
Rick James - Fire it up
B side.
Queen Samantha - Take A Chance. [ I think Herbie Hancock - Rockit is related to the hi hat sequence break ]
Coalkitchen - Keep On Pushin.
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker.
Vernon Burch - Get up and dance.
The Chocolate Jam Co – Chocolate.
Archie Bell & The Drells - I Can't Get Enough Of Your Love.
Additional Samples.
Patrice Rushen - Let your heart be free
Shakatak - Lumiere
Roy Ayers - The third time.
Dialogue from Dirty Harry & Horsemouth ( The takeover scene in the 1978 Rockers movie )
Workflow
Many stem extraction tools emerged in 2020 during covid lockdown which were revolutionary. The disco rap era of tapes from 1977 - 1983 were ideal sources for experimenting . I extracted the vocals , manipulated the breaks & remixed some songs.
Image sourced from Page 99 of... David Toop’s - The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop. 1984
The audio quality is poor but it is a rare quintessential glimspe of the disco rap era of Hip Hop. With infectious breaks , vocal delay , record skipping.
Ive contacted many people from the tape trading , old school scene & also the Universities which archive Hip hop. All ive found is an excerpt from a interview with AB in a David Toop book. I would welcome more details.
part one
part two
Death Mix live!!! Online version.
Audio sources.
MC's.. Master Ice , Sundance
A side.
The Jackson 5 - It's Great to Be Here.
Grand master Flash and The Furious Five - Superappin
Joey D. Vieira - Straight Rock
Rick James - Fire it up
B side.
Queen Samantha - Take A Chance. [ I think Herbie Hancock - Rockit is related to the hi hat sequence break ]
Coalkitchen - Keep On Pushin.
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker.
Vernon Burch - Get up and dance.
The Chocolate Jam Co – Chocolate.
Archie Bell & The Drells - I Can't Get Enough Of Your Love.
Additional Samples.
Patrice Rushen - Let your heart be free
Shakatak - Lumiere
Roy Ayers - The third time.
Dialogue from Dirty Harry & Horsemouth ( The takeover scene in the 1978 Rockers movie )
Workflow
Many stem extraction tools emerged in 2020 during covid lockdown which were revolutionary. The disco rap era of tapes from 1977 - 1983 were ideal sources for experimenting . I extracted the vocals , manipulated the breaks & remixed some songs.
Image sourced from Page 99 of... David Toop’s - The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop. 1984