Saturday, April 10, 2010
Vintage Smash Hits - Malcolm McLaren Cover (January 6-19, 1983)
This is just further proof that the late Malcolm McLaren was a true visionary of this music game. Read this article (from 1983, almost 30 years ago). The stuff he's talking about: the DIY culture of home DJ's, producers and consumers taking control of their music and remixing & remaking it in any fashion they want has all come to pass in this current internet era of music. Mash-up and remix culture is exactly what Mclaren was envisioing when he want to New York and made the cut-up, scratch hip hop classic, "Buffalo Gals."
Download the January 6-19, 1983 'All-Star Request Issue' of Smash Hits with McLaren on the cover HERE [pdf file] or HERE [individual jpegs].
Rest in Peace, Malcolm - you will be missed....
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Also via Grandgood.com:
Another 1983 McLaren interveiw | The Buffalo Gals Back 2 Skool EPK |
Labels: Malcolm McClaren, Mash-ups, Old School Hip Hop
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Video: Beat This: A Hip-Hop History
"Beat This: A Hip-Hop History is a 'seminal' 1984 documentary film about hip hop culture, directed by Dick Fontaine. The cast includes Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc — the film includes footage from Herc's original dance parties — The Cold Crush Brothers, Jazzy Jay, Brim Fuentes, and The Dynamic Rockers,and is narrated by Imhotep Gary Byrd. Originally part of the Arena television series, it was among the first crop of documentaries about hip hop."
Four parts of a 6-part playlist (parts 1 and 5 are missing). The archival footage is amazing but the rhyming voice-over by the documentary narrator is pretty corny.
[spotted via Del's]
Labels: Afrika Bambaataa, Cold Crush Brothers, DJ Jazzy Jay, DJ Kool Herc, Malcolm McClaren
