Boombox 1 (Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-82)
Label : Soul Jazz Records
Catalogue No: SJRLP530-7
["At The Place To Be\nPositive Life\nBody Rock\nPhilosophy Rappin' Spree\nMove Your Body\nOn The Go\nRappers Convention\nWillie Rap\nSearching Rap\nOne More Time\nThe New Rap Language\nAnd You Know That\nCop Bop\nWe Are People Too\nBoogie Feelin' Rap\nEquidity Funk"]
Media Condition : Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition : Mint (M)
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.
