Best Of

Do you want to write a review?

Online Member Price (tax incl.) : ¥1,488
You Save : ¥129
Regular price (tax incl.) : ¥1,617

Issued : 05 Apr 1994

Availability : Deleted Items
This item has been deleted by the manufacturer and is therefore no longer available for order
Point : 1points / 100yen

Item Details

Genre :	Dance & Soul	Catalogue Number :	71606
Format :	CD	Label :	Rhino/atlantic
Issued :	05 Apr 1994	Item sourced from :	USA
Original Release Year :	1994
Number of Discs :	1

▲ See larger image

%%header%%

%%message%%

HMV Review

Full performer name: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five/Melle Mel.
Personnel includes: Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Scorpio, Cowboy, Kidd Creole, Raheem (vocals).
Producers include: Joey Robinson, Jr., Sylvia Inc. Productions, Jiggs Chase, E. Fletcher, Melle Mel.
Compilation producers: Joey Robinson, Jr., David McLees.
Includes liner notes by Shannita Williams.
Wherever the origin of hip-hop is discussed, three names are invoked: Herc, Flash and Bam; the trinity of Bronx DJs who pioneered the style. Kool Herc unquestionably came first (he coined the term "b-boy"), followed closely by Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash. It was Flash who developed the hip-hop DJ's arsenal of techniques; sometime around 1974 he crazy-glued a light switch on to his mixing board, thereby creating the first cross-fader. The mixing techniques this innovation allowed so outdistanced the competition that Flash often caused crowds to form around the DJ booth and--to keep the party moving--had to employ mic controllers to shift the focus off himself and back to the dance-floor. This crew of emcees he assembled became the Furious Five.
MESSAGE collects 11 hip-hop anthems originally released as 12"s on the Sugar Hill label. Although "Step Off Megamix" is a poor substitute for the conspicuously absent "Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel," this is a nonetheless crucial CD collection of previously vinyl-only classics like "Freedom," "White Lines" and of course "The Message." The first rap to incorporate social consciousness, the latter also occasioned rap's MTV debut.

Credits

Cowboy(Rap), Grandmaster Flash(Rap), Kid Creole(Rap), Melle Mel Plowden(Rap), Raheem(Rap), Bill Inglot(Producer), David McLees(Producer), E. Fletcher(Producer), Grandmaster Melle Mel(Producer), Jiggs Chase(Producer), Jigsaw Productions, Inc.(Producer), Joey Robinson, Jr.(Producer), Larry Johnson(Producer), Larry Johnson(Producer), Leland Robinson(Arranger), Leland Robinson(Producer), Melle Mel Plowden(Producer), Michael Johnson(Producer), Sanny X(Engineer), Sylvia Inc. Productions(Producer), Sylvia Robinson(Producer), Chris Clarke(Remastering), Chris Frantz(Composer), Dan Hersch(Remastering), Danny Glover(Composer), Geoff Gans(Art Direction), Grandmaster Flash(Performer), Grandmaster Melle Mel(Performer), Guy Williams(Composer), Joseph Saddler(Composer), Keith Wiggins(Composer), Kenneth Gamble(Composer), Leon Huff(Composer), Melvin Glover(Composer), Michael Ochs(Photography), Mr. Ness(Performer), Raymond Boyd(Photography), Sanny X(Mixing), Scorpio(Composer), Sevie Bates(Design), Shannita Williams-Alleyne(Liner Notes), Tina Weymouth(Composer), David McLees(Compilation), David McLees(Reissue Producer), Eric Neff(Project Assistant), Gary Peterson(Research), Gary Stewart(Project Assistant), Joey Robinson, Jr.(Reissue Producer), Patrick Milligan(Research), Roger Clayton(Compilation), Shannita Williams-Alleyne(Project Assistant), Ted Myers(Project Director), Ted Myers(Project Supervisor), Bill Inglot, Michael Ochs(Archivist)