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Sunday, January 24, 2010

DJ Chuck Chill Out - Hip Hop On Wax Volume 1

It's 1984 and I'm in my mate's basement breakin' to a streetsounds electro tape, dunno which one but it could've been any one of 4 that were out at the time and in walks an 'acquaintance' shall we say, who's not really into the scene but knows some people and he stops the tape, pulls another out of his pocket and places that into the machine and presses play. We were obviously outraged and although he was a bit of a stocky individual but we had numbers so were about to lay into him (verbally) when this track came on. I had to just stand and listen, couldn't move, the thumping intro and then the 'dj chuck chill out, dj chuck chill out..wha, wha, whatcha gonna do' and the resulting cutting and scratching extravaganza just had me mesmerised for about 7 minutes and I knew I wanted, no needed that tape, (no chance of getting the wax, I was a kid and had no money). Needless to say it took me months to get it and it wasn't directly off of him, it was through numerous friends and by then the sound quality had deteriorated quite substantially but anything was better than nothing. It did take me a long time to acquire my own copy and I did have to settle for the re-issue in the end but it's the tune and the ability to hold the vinyl in my hands that I was after. To me the fact that I remember where I was the first time I heard it would indicate two things. One is how impressionable we were when we were young 'uns which is true for everyone I guess and the other is just how good this record and many others from this particular era were and still are today.

  1. Long Version
  2. Short Version
  3. Bonus Beats
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8 comments:

EJvO said...

thanks for expanding my musical horizon! i think you will like this mix i've made

http://soundcloud.com/dj-eis-t/dj-eis-t-old-school-elektro-breakin-mix

Anonymous said...

Man, I totally agree on that.

There's just way too many fools out there that can't grasp.

In fact, I was arguing with my best friend kate yesterday about this, and
they wouldn't believe me that he was wrong. Now I can just show them your blog :)

moyinka said...

nice mix Erik-janvO. did you do it the old fashioned way or use one o' those new fangled computer thingies?

make 'em have it anonymous, old school rules.

Machiventa said...

thanks for the great posts moyinka, I appreciate it!

moyinka said...

no probs Mach, glad to be able to contribute mate.

Anonymous said...

Логотип мне нравится:)

RAP said...

This is cool!!!

sanceations said...

I remember when this came out. Red Alert played this and his version as well.. When he started on 98.7KISS FM
NY. It still Classic...
Great Blog...