What a great record. I especially like the Raggamuffin version. I am not sure who the female reggae MC is; it doesn't seem that they give her credit on the label (I doubt it is the singer/vocalist Althea McQueen, but i guess it is possible). But she kills it!! Such a cool combination of flavors. Old school NYC house, rap, and ragga - and they pull it off to great effect IMO. I suppose to some it will sound dated and will border on cheese but if you can get over that it is just a funky, feel-good gem of a tune.

A little piece of Hip Hop history recorded in my very own hometown of Worcester, Mass (aka "Wartown" aka "Wormtown"). This was back when Biz was just getting popular and was recorded in a club downtown called Uptown by my boy DJ Shame of the Vinyl Reanimators, who I believe was the resident DJ there at the time, back in '87!! I was 9 years old... It's great because Biz calls out Worcester's name at least once in the chorus of one of the jams! Also interesting because a then little-known Big Daddy Kane was also in the house, and when Biz introduces him the crowd barely makes a peep! Little did they know they were probably witnessing one of the first non-NYC performances of one of the greatest rappers of all time... Thanks, Shame! Wista represent

I have had a white label promo of this record for about 11 years and I just figured out just now what it was. I have been trying to figure out forever!! The matrix number in the runout groove on my copy is different - don't have it in from of me right now. I was able to figure it out because someone else commented on a different record by the same artist which also has the "Rock the Beat" track, and someone happended to be selling it in teh marketplace and was kind enough to post an Audio Sample, and here we go! Gotta love the Disco Dogs baby!

So yeah, I love this record. The production is a bit lo-fi/dirty compared to a lot of stuff, but I have a couple other records on this label and they also seem to be soft/low-volume unfortunately. Stylistically this is great stuff though. Florida-style hard funky electro acid breaks. Cheese to some, I know, but with the right crowd and a loud system, these tunes bomb the dancefloor. I especially love the "Dance of the 303's."

Klockwerk Oranj is one of the best tracks I have ever heard. Eerie, uplifting, funky, melancholy, optimistic, it's like the machines are trying to share their feelings with the humans and the funk is the common language they are speaking. I am just now getting deep into electro, but this right now is my favorite track. I wish that more electro was like this. Too much dark and menacing stuff coming out, reminds me of when D'N'B went dark and cold.

This is a great find if you come across it. It sounds like they took the acapella and put the "Funky Drummer" break under it with some cool samples; sounds kind of like "Balearic" style/downtempo house style stuff (I'm not super familiar with "Balearic" but from what I know of it, this seems pretty close). Lo-fi but very creative and a fresh and different spin on an all-time Hip Hop classic. Probably pretty rare as well I would imagine.

Jazz-funk with a drum machine and synths!! I absolutely love this tune (Twilight) ever since I heard it on the soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas. Whoever the music programmer is for those games deserves an award. I believe this is the version of this 12" that is harder to find, based on the # of folks on here that have it. The other version is the one with the picture cover which is much more common. Just dawned on me today that Goldie sampled it for "Sensual" too. Good stuff.

Oh Boy. Classic Drum'n'Bass remix. Uplifting, epic, spiritual. When I first was getting into the scene this was one of the first jungle tunes that grabbed me and let me know that the rave scene was something special - and that the music was multi-faceted. That it could take a pop song and turn it into something completely new and different. This was really the first electronic dance music song with singing vocals that just got stuck in my head and wouldn't get out. Every weekend I went out I would hope that the jungle DJ would throw this on at the end of his/her set so I could put up my lighter and look forward to the next weekend. And I had no idea until much later on that it was Armand Van Helden that produced it! Weird... Now that I am more knowledgeable I realize this may not be the highest quality dnb production but a timeless classic in my opinion nonetheless.

This record is truly bizarre. It is a schizophrenic combination of house, R&B, and Hip-Hop, with truly homegrown vocals that sound like someone got their little 13-year old brother to sing cheezy bubble gum lyrics over a beat. Some of the elements of these tracks are really dope though! Some nice bass kicks and breakbeats. Oddball record that I am keeping in my collection for kicks - also love the fact that it was made in New Haven, Connecticut which is just classic if you're from New England. Again, truly bizarre!

The house mixes here are solid, but average club bizness. The killer here in my opinion is the "Cibola Club Mix," which is a killer freestyle/electro/miami bass style remix. It employs both the Willesden Dodgers "122 BPM" break and the drum sequence used by David Storrs on "Reckless." In my admittedly somewhat limited exposure to Freestyle, I believe this is the only time I have ever heard the latter sampled. Slammin'!

One of the most underrated Hip Hop albums ever. In my opinion this is as close as you can get to a perfect Hip Hop album. Raw, pure, definition of real New York rap. DJ Premier at and Guru both at the peak of their respective games. Track after track of perfectly constructed minimalist sample-driven boom bap perfection. Definitely in my top 5 Hip Hop albums of all time. When people put albums by Dr. Dre and NWA and The DOC above albums like this, I have to question their understanding of what Hip Hop is SUPPOSED to sound like.