Various Artists – "Street Sounds Electro 8"(Street Sounds – ELCST 8) 1985

Don't have much to say about this one, which includes slagging it off, so by elimination this must be a good one?......right?

It's,if anything, a bit Disco-Lite and his slaggo-lettes, with most of the tracks displaying a preposterous preponderance for old school Rapping, lashings of vocoder abuse,early sampler misuse,vinyll-ill treatment and DMX maltreatment with some inappropriate gated digital reverb.

It is certainly of its time,which is why we like it innit?

Tracklist:

A1 Sparky D Vs. The Playgirls– The Battle
A2 Davy DMX– The DMX Will Rock (Rap Mix)
A3 Aleem– Confusion
A4 D.E.F. & D.J. Three D – D.E.F. Momentum
B1 Marley Marl– Marley Marl Scratch
B2 The B Boys– Girls
B3 Papa Austin +The Great Peso– Wrong Girls To Play With (Dub)
B4 N.Y.C. Cutter– D.J. Cuttin

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Various Artists – "Street Sounds Electro 7" (Street Sounds – ELCST 7) 1985

Post Elvis,1985 was once looked upon as the official worst year of music evah! Live Aid happened,and the possibilities of world corporate mass control of young peoples personal taste became very real.....meanwhile on the streets of the five boroughs no-one had heard of "We are the World" by the bloated morons of superstars immodest bleatings about saving poor African children like the Gods they thought they were.None of them thought about trying to save the poor american children from Never Land,and a glass or two of 'Jesus Juice'.

Wacko Jacko did,after all, receive the child-like lyrics channeled from God almighty himself, after a suggestion from his Holiness  Lionel Ritchie of course.Well, God can't be good at everything can he?

The Uk's charity single's words weren't much better....so "Tonight Thank God it's Them Instead Of You"...oozed Bozo...i mean Bono.You couldn't make that up!

Now, what the kids on the city street were actually doing,without interference from any Gods, Mortal or otherwise, was filling their empty lives and empty bellies dancing in dat new Breakdancin' stylee.To an abstract version of Kraftwerk and other European synth-pop acts,weaved in with all those Japanese electronic toys that no-one wanted.

No need for Gods, or Poop stars, who feel it worthy of themselves to save us all from ourselves.

"Its a choice we're making, we're saving our own lives!?".....it's all Me Me Me innit? The malignant narcissists of the poop charts; want us poor people to donate to other starving poor people while the brutal dictators of the targeted desert areas of famine, spend it all on new weapons to recruit those very same African children into the Peoples Army.All this goodness, while Lionel and Michael allow us to bathe in their magnanimous and Holy light.

 

Tracklist:

A1 Egyptian Lover - Girls (remix Long Version)
A2 The Unknown DJ– 808 Beats (Club Mix)
A3 Knights Of The Turntables– Fresh Mess (Jam ... Your Radio)
B1 Roxanne Shanté– Queen Of Rox (Shantë Rox On) (Street Version)
B2 The Fearless Four– Dedication
B3 Chris "The Glove" Taylor– Itchiban Scratch
B4 The B-Boys– Stick Up Kid

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Angela Simpson– "Angela" (Spectrum Records – SPEC 5001) 1971

Hey...let's take a short break from Electro Compilations and stray onto the controversial turf of who was the first Rapper person?

Not quite Old School, more like Pre-School Rap, where six year old Angela Simpson out does Roxanne by 8 years to be the youngest Rapper on the block. 

This ain't no Rap I hear you cry,even though there's a track actually called 'Rapping' .....so stuff that in yer pipe and smoke it. Proto-Rap is the category I've crowbared this into.

Who invented 'Rap'anyway? The word is certainly Afro-american, but Ian Dury was a crippled Cockney white-man,and John Cooper Clarke was similar,but Mancunians both, appearing a couple of years before The Sugarhill Gang, and Issac Hayes did some Rap's on the "Black Moses" LP,although they were more of a croon than Rap as we know it. The Last Poets get the prize for inventing Hip-Hop culture,them and Gil Scott Heron I reckon? Big Youth, Prince Far-I, Mark E. Smith....Hell..I dunno what I'm rapping on about really,but I have noticed that it usually takes several individuals to come up with the necessary pieces of the Jigsaw Dunnit!?.....personally....and NO! it wasn't Debbie Harry either!

Anyhow,there's one person who definitely didn't come up with Rap music, and that's Angela Simpson, I'll tell yer That!

Tracklist: 

A1 Angela Simpson– Give The Children A Chance 0:55
A2 Angela Simpson– Little Children Pt. I 2:45
A3 Angela Simpson– Little Children Pt. II 2:45
A4 Angela Simpson– Lenox Ave. 3:15
A5 R. Brown– I Just Want To Be 3:42
B1 Angela Simpson– Rapping 5:00
B2 Angela Simpson– Love Thy Neighbor 4:00
B3 Lily Fields– M-L-K 6:45
B4 R. Brown– Bellwoods Trinity Park 3:12

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Rudy Ray Moore ‎– "The Second Rudy Ray Moore Album (This Pussy Belongs To Me)" (Comedians Inc. ‎– COM S 1105) 1970

What the fuck-ing hell is this?????
This is filed under "Comedy",in inverted commas, but is about as funny as a dose of scabies,bordering on as funny as cancer!
The reason this utter shit is on here is the influence these extremely ruuuude black comedians had on future Hip-Hop artists. Rudy Ray Moore's delivery is in the form of a rhyming monologue, with sweary words,and frequent graphic references to certain sexual acts and body parts.
The cover art is as jaw-droppingly purile as the ...er...music???
I'm sure it would probably make one laugh heartily if I could understand what the fuck he's going on about!?
Sure Black dudes got game, but they sure as shit ain't comedians........
I generalise of course,but i'm struggling to name a Black comedian who's actually funny. That geezer from 'The Mighty Boosh' and 'The IT Crowd', Richard Ayoade, is a wheeze,and rather more subtle than Rudy ray Moore,but does he qualify as 'Black'?
The cover says buy me,but the contents should never have been let out,to influence the wrong kind of rapper early in their impressionable years.
Evidence:
Snoop Dogg said: "Without Rudy Ray Moore, there would be no Snoop Dogg, and that's for real."
Christ! If only i had a gun and a time machine!?

Tracklist:
A1 Signifying Monkey
A2 40 Pounds Of Chittlings
A3 Quart Of Buttermilk
A4 Fall Out
A5 The Gorillas Are Coming, And Others
B1 Hurrican Annie Meets Dolemite
B2 California Poetry
B3 Mr Big Dick, And Others

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The Last Poets With Bernard Purdie ‎– "Delights Of The Garden" (Douglas ‎– NBLP 7051)

Sorry for inflicting more Last Poets on y'all, but this one isn't so awful,and I've got fuck all else to do because France is on Covid#19 lockdown.
There's no mentions of the 'N' word,and improved mainly because its got drum legend Benard Purdie on skins. This applies some much needed discipline on these proto-rappers,and gives it some of the Funk that was missing from their early albums.
Personally I find Purdies drum style rather boring and unadventurous, but it fits in nicely here.
Yeah, there's the usual bigging up of the need for armed revolution,and moaning about how their distant ancestors were made slaves by white mens distant ancestors.I've researched my own family tree and there were no slave owners,in fact most of my family were slaves of the British system,paid fuck all,and forced to fight and die in wars that had nothing to do with them,or any choice in the matter. 
I'm personally thinking of suing the decendants of the Roman empire for the crimes they commited in England during their occupation......and I want compensation(Financial naturally). Also i'm waiting for an apology from the British Government for World War One......there's as much chance of this happening as there is for compensation (financial,again, of course) being paid to the decendants of the victims of the slave trade.
Everyone's been fucked over by someone,be it individuals or state institutions, in the long saga of human history.Basically.....get over it FFS!?
A Fictional member of the public : "Jonny Zchivago you're a Racist and a Nazi apologist"......oh Fuck jolly well Off and ask yerself some very difficult questions dear Fictional member of the public!
One doesn't go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and slag off your fellow members for being alcoholics,your there to cure oneself;so you introduce yourself thus:
"Hi, I'm a fictional member of the public and i'm an Alcoholic"....then take it from there.So before you call me a Racist be really certain that you ain't one yerself? The time honoured excuse of "But I've got lots of Black Friends" isn't acceptable.Just as the prefix of "I'm not Racist, but....!" is almost an admission.

(PS I'm also a Homophobic Fuck too apparently...check it out here:)


Tracklist:

A1 It's A Trip 4:44
A2 Ho Chi Min 5:16
A3 Blessed Are Those Who Struggle 3:41
A4 The Pill 5:08
A5 Delights Of The Garden 3:47
B1 Be 6:19
B2 Yond 4:58
B3 Er 7:36

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The Last Poets ‎– "Chastisment" (Blue Thumb Records ‎– BTS 39) 1972

You may want them to shut up,but they sure had some cool threads maaaan!

By the third album, The Last Poets had finally cottoned on that they needed some half decent music to set their Rants to.So for a few of the tracks, we've got some Afrocentric Jazz to increase the chances of anyone actually listening to their message.

Once you've listened to their well worn out message, you probably wish you hadn't,but it kinda works.Even white guys could probably dance to the opening track,but it goes rapidly downhill after the second tune.

The closing number reverts back to Beatnik territory with the mention of the holy word "Bird";where they run through a list of black jazz musicians,like Archie Shepp,Trane,Miles,Herbie Hancock....etc. And claims that the Love Supreme That Trane was going on about was purely for the Black man.Hmmmmmmm? Not sure that was mentioned in the convoluted eastern philosophy Trane and his missus were into,but whatever, I don't have a problem with the vast universal consciousness not loving me as much as the Uber Black male,or, Uber person of colour should I say? Bring on the Chastisment baby.


Tracklist:

1.Tribute To Obabi (Ogun) 10:16
2.Jazzoetry 3:46
3.Black Soldier 5:56
4.E Pluribus Unum 4:38
5.Hands Off 4:05
6.The Lone Ranger 0:28
7.Before The White Man Came 3:43
8.Bird's Word 6:10

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The Last Poets ‎– "The Last Poets" (Douglas ‎– Douglas 3)

If you wanted to scream 'Oh Shut The Fuck Up' to Gil Scott-Heron,then you'll bust a bloodvessel after thirty seconds of The Last Poets.At least there was only one Gil Scott-Heron in his band,here we've got three,all barking at once,and some terrible afro-centric Conga bashing to further agitate your inner ear. What a confusingly annoying racket. All the Poets seem to talk at the same time, relentlessly slagging off 'People of Colour' (yeah I know!),for not wanting a bloody revolution.There's also the  liberal,and very tiresome use of the 'N' word that I cannot use because I'm a honky;but absolutly NOT in any way a proud Honky,not even proud of being human in fact.
They do grugingly admit that they love their fellow 'N#@*$%S',because ,and i quote " N#@*$%S are me!" 
Fucking gets on me titz does this album,but you gotta hand it to 'em, they sowed the evil seed of Hip-Hop, annoyed the fuck out of whitey,and once those bleeding bongo's got ditched for drum machines ten years later, slagging off your own racial grouping became listenable.
Sadly this bunch weren't the Last Poets, but the first of a very long and seemingly endless line of exceedingly bad poets. Somehow this all evolved into simplistic rhymes about how cool violence is,misogyny,homophobia and celebrating luxurious possessions to the expense of their fellow strugglers in ......oh ffs....the Ghetto. Viva Capitalism 'N#@ger!.
As for market forces, I paid thirty quid for this in the early nineties,after having a couple of their later albums,which are rather good,and vaguely funky (so don't let this album put you off!?),i decided to get the debut LP.I pretended to like it for a while to ease the pain of losing thirty notes.....but the pain was eased permanently at the end of the nineties, with the rise and rise of E-Bay.
Maybe capitalism isn't so evil after all? (er..yes it is Ed.)


Tracklist:

1.Run, Nigger
2.On The Subway
3.Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution
4.Black Thighs
5.Gashman
6.Wake Up, Niggers
7.New York, New York
8.Jones Comin' Down
9.When The Revolution Comes
10.Just Because
11.Black Wish
12.Two Little Boys
13.Surprises

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Gil Scott-Heron ‎– "Small Talk At 125th And Lenox" (Flying Dutchman ‎– FDS 131) 1970

As Proto-Rap goes, only this album, a bunch of potty mouthed Black Comedians (Comedians of Colour,mainly Blue) and The Last Poets are understood to have provided the final template for what has come to torture us endlessly today.The late fifties jazz hipster jive talk provided the delivery of the words, and the black poets of the late sixties provided the politics. I doubt that Gil Scott-Heron would approve of the majority of the lyrical content of 21st century Rap,but then again, I don't think he approved of very much at all. He's got one of those lop-sided I ain't gonna agree with anything,smart arse crooked grimaces on his boatrace. After about four tracks you just want him to Shut The Fuck UP! Its tiresomely relentless in its bitterness,with no let up that you start hankering after a bit of Kanye West to give your brain a rest.
Those beatnik bongo's ,although admirably minimal, rarely change with the poetry,which is another aspect adopted by future Hip-Hop acts. Normally i'm a fan of monotony,but even Can packed that lark in after several albums,Neu! took a bit longer, and Hip Hop is still firmly ...there!
It's most bizarre how the mostest un-black music in the world, from Germany of all places, would find itself absorbed into thee most Black music in the world,this especially applies to  Kraftwerk who were the final ingredient for the Electro-Rap that would become called Hip-Hop. And don't under estimate the influence of the great Gary Numan either,who had never heard of Kraftwerk until someone pointed it out as a possible influence after he had a hit record. There's always a proportion of parallel evolution ,and mutual inspiration in the progression of the musical form,and Rap music is clearly the most glaringly obvious.......but,shut up moaning Gil, The Revolution will not be televised,nor will it be online, mainly because the Revolution will never happen!...but if it did, it most certainly would be televised on the miriad of social media platforms.......well I'd watch it,should be entertaining. I remember some live Rioting in L.A. in the nineties I think, when a mob of angry black brothers ,sorry I mean Persons of Colour,dragged a white truck driver from his cab and beat the living shite out of him on live TV. Like a 20th century version of Roman Gladiatorial battles.It had me searching for the thumbs down button on my remote control.This is Entertainment?
After all Whitey's on the moon isn't he?.....no wait, its says on Facebook that Whitey never got to the Moon?......thats the second best rant on this album nullified!?
He's angry about prejudice is our Gil,or bert, but apparently this doesn't apply to Faggots according to track Seven.Slightly hypocritical there Gilbert? Unless he was playing Devils Advocate, but somehow I doubt it.Not as 'Right On' as he sounds is he,or rather was he? Maybe I just don't like listening to anyone who is more bitter than I am!?


Tracklist:

1.Introduction 0:31
2.The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2:46
3.Omen 1:45
4.Brother 2:35
5.Comment #1 4:26
6.Small Talk At 125th & Lenox 1:20
7.The Subject Was Faggots 3:10
8.Evolution (And Flashback) 3:20
9.Plastic Pattern People 2:50
10.Whitey On The Moon 1:57
11The Vulture 2:00
12.Enough 8:37
13.Paint It Black 0:30
14.Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul ? 4:20
15.Everyday 4:20

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George Russell And His Orchestra ‎– "New York, N.Y." ( Decca ‎– DL 79216) 1959

Highly respected Hep-Cat Jazzer George Russell does his bit in the evolution of Hip Hop with an all-star orchestra; including, among many lesser lights, Max Roach on skins, and none other than 'Trane 'on his prefered axe. Ice cool smooth bebop big band jazz for hipsters only,and  Kool Kat Jon Hendricks,rapping beat talk to introduce each piece and yes, he does mention that obligatory word,the 'Bird'.
Hendricks, doesn't just give us some groovy hipster narrative, he makes it rhyme so it starts to chime, get me? A highly influential and supremly Hip platter in the annals ,or anals, of the foundations or roots of Rap.

Tracklist:

1.Manhattan
2.Big City Blues
3.Manhatta-Rico
4.East Side Medley: A) Autumn In New York, B) How About You
5.A Helluva Town

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Charlie Mingus and langston Hughes ‎– "The Weary Blues With Langston Hughes" (MGM Records ‎– E3697) 1958

Ouch! Me Brane 'urts.....we're drifting very dangerously near the jagged rocks of Hip Hop and its regrettable birth. 
Kool Kats rapping over a cool bebop soundtrack,talking not singing,was,without doubt the beginning of the most monotonous music ever to fuck you up the arse and describe the act as they're doing it to you......all in simplistic rhyming couplets to rub your face in it.
"Did I die and go to hell(?)", you scream.There's no need to go anywhere when the mountain can come to Mohammed. Satan brings Hell to your own doorstep,with free home delivery. Like Pollution, it gets everywhere,ain't going nowhere,and lowers your IQ.

Tracklist:

1.Hey (Night) / Too Blue / Ballad of the Fortune Teller
2.Commercial Theater 

3.The Weary Blues

4.Blues at dawn

5.Six Bit Blues
6.Morning After
7.Could Be / Bad Luck Card / Bad Man

8.life is fine

9.hey Hey Morn

10.Testament
11.Consider Me

12.Warning: Augmented

13.Motto / Dead in There

14.Final Curve

15.Boogie: 1 a.m.

16.Bedtime

17.Daybreak

18.Tell Me

19.Good Morning / Harlem

20.Same in Blues / Comment on Curb

21.Democracy / Island / extract from Warning: Augmented / Jump Monk

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Babs Gonzales ‎– "Tales Of Manhattan: The Cool Philosophy Of Babs Gonzales" - (Jaro International ‎– JAM 5000) 1959

One suspects that this Cat ain't joking? It sounds like a parody,but just maybe Babs means it?
There's a part of me that hopes he's serious,so for the sake of this narrative I'm treating this as the real deal pops.This is a less eloquent,and cliched black bloke, version of Jack Kerouac on happy pills,with a cooool Be-Bop backing band.
Jazz writer Jack Cooke explained that Gonzales "assumed the role of spokesman for the whole hipster world... [becoming] something more than just a good and original jazz entertainer: but the incarnation of a whole social group."

Sheeeet...this cat was serious!?

He really did see himself as thee cool Philosopher of 'Hip'.Maaaan that's the Mostest!

Sheer Joy.
There is,however one negative amongst all this pleasure:
Mother Earth was pregant for the ninth time....could this be the moment she was impregnated with the Hip-Hop virus?

Tracklist:

A1 The Hat Box Chicks
A2 Broadway - 4 A.M.
A3 You Need Connections
A4 'Dem Resolution Liars
A5 Manhattan Fable
B1 'Dem Jive New Yorkers
B2 The Squares
B3 A Dollar Is Your Only Friend
B4 The Cool Cat's Philosophy
B5 Ole Braggin' Freddie

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