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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (481 ratings)

Antonio Ocasio - 08-Nov-07 04:42 PM
Antonio Ocasio together with artists such as Jephté Guillaume & Joe Claussell have produced some of the finest cultural music to hit our ears. This man has flatly refused to "sell out" & keeping to his deep latino roots produces gem after gem of the deepest rhythms with his very talented musician friends.
Simply everything that he has released on his own brilliantly designed Tribal Winds label oozes character & quality.
A label where you just have to have every release. period.
& a personal friend of mine who I am truly honoured to know. RESPECT.

Leroy Burgess - 08-Nov-07 04:24 PM
Since his first recordings with Black Ivory, recording with the legendary Patrick Adams, James Calloway, Sonny T. Davenport & Greg Carmichael to name but a few, producing pioneering electro with the aleem brothers & literally hundreds of songs written & produced for other well known & not so well known artists, Leroy Burgess with that almighty voice & devistating vocal deliverence goes down in history as one of the very very special ones.
Another artist where if you have one you have to have them all.

Curtis Mayfield - 29-Oct-07 03:27 PM
Curtis Mayfield was simply one of the true legends of soul music.
Very few artists could capture his listeners with his faultless vocal executions & ground breaking productions.
With every song he blessed a real message was perfectly delivered.
Without a doubt a great who very sadly didnt hit the masses, but deeply touched every soul in the underground.
You hear one song from him, you just had to hear them all.
For me it was one of the sadest days on learning of his sudden & tragic death.

Double Dee & Steinski - History Of Hip Hop - 20-Nov-06 08:52 PM
In 1983, Tommy Boy Records held a remix contest to promote G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kids "Play That Beat (Mr. DJ)." The unanimous winner was Steve "Steinski" Stein & Douglas "Double Dee" DiFrancos "Lesson One: The Payoff Mix." Two more Lessons soon followed: "Lesson Two: The James Brown Mix" and "Lesson Three: The History of Hip-Hop."

"Lesson One" became an urban radio hit within days, but was never commercially released because of its extensive and eclectic samples. Clearing the sound clips -- a diverse collection ranging from Mae West and Humphrey Bogart to Ed McMahon and Herbie Hancock -- would have been a legal nightmare under copyright law.

Made in a cutting-edge studio with Steinskis extensive vinyl collection, these three tracks paved the way for current cut-and-paste turntablist experimentation. Countless basement DJs were influenced by The Lessons, including DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, who both released unofficial tributes called "Lesson Four." It was way ahead of its time, and deserves to be heard beyond vinyl bootlegs traded by DJs.