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Power Of Three - Wigsey 12" |
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Written by Smoov
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Apr 15, 2010 at 09:25 PM
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 ARTIST: Power Of Three
TITLE: Wigsey b/w Mic In My Life
FORMAT: 12" YEAR: 1992 LABEL: Ranchouse Records
More indy randomness from the early 90s! According to various online articles Baltimore hip-hop is alive and booming nowadays, but if you’d ask me to name some artists from B-More who made a name for themselves on a national or even international scale I think I would fail to even mention only one. Now of course it’s possible that this has everything to do with my own ignorance, because the fact of the matter is that I’m no expert on Baltimore’s hip-hop history, but still. Having said that though I can name a few artists from B-More that are currently ‘hot’ amongst those of us who call themselves vinyl addicts. I mean, which vinyl hunter out there didn’t have (or still has) records from artists like Sparrow, Labtekwon, Mr. Ruckuz, Precise & The Boys, DJ Class or Annexx Clique on his want list at some point? Records by these artists have been in high demand these last two or three, maybe four years and they fetch up crazy amounts of money on eBay and Discogs (someone paid $1425 for a sealed copy of Sparrow’s “Physics” 12” back in June 2009). So I don’t know, maybe Baltimore has been the sleeping giant of hip-hop for all these years that’s only bein’ discovered by the hip-hop hungry masses just now... |
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Born Discipline - Brothers Wanna Clown... 12" |
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Written by Smoov
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Apr 11, 2010 at 03:58 PM
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 ARTIST: Born Discipline
TITLE: Brothers Wanna Clown Around
FORMAT: 12" YEAR: 1993 LABEL: Low Frequency Recordings It’s been nearly a year since our last review, so you guys must’ve thought we had quit or died or something like that. Well, let’s just say that we’ve been very busy with a million and one things that had nothing to do with this website. There are more important things in life than talking about hip-hop records, right? |
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Sons Of Sam - The Unbirth EP |
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Written by Vinyl Addicts
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May 29, 2009 at 07:45 PM
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We’re back in action with the third instalment of the VA vinyl series and after blessing you with the Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth demo tracks and the Sport “G” and Mastermind EP this time we would like to present six previously unreleased tracks from Sons Of Sam to you and yours. Many of you will know Sons Of Sam due their sought after 'Oooh He Got An Afro / Charisma' 12" which was released on Workshop Records in 1993. We had the oppurtunity to dig out six previously unreleased tracks from 1993/1994. Result: The Unbirth EP! |
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Written by Smoov
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May 13, 2009 at 01:45 PM
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 ARTIST: J-Crush
TITLE: I'm Vex b/w Snafu FORMAT: 12" YEAR: 1993 LABEL: Rotten Records Now here’s a record I’ve been meaning to share with y’all ever since I found it in my favorite record store at the beginning of 2008. That day must have been one of my strangest digging events ever, because after I found this gem in the first or second box I went through I literally found nothing else worth mentioning in the next 25 to 30 boxes. It’s as if shortly after I dug up this 12” the record gods were thinkin’ “That’s it! That Smoov fella has had more than enough luck today already!”. I can’t say I’m mad at them, because even if this would have been the only dope record I found in 2008 I would still be a happy man. Yep, that’s how dope it is! |
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Sez? Who - On Da Dealznicks 12" |
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Written by Smoov
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May 05, 2009 at 01:49 PM
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 ARTIST: Sez? Who
TITLE: On Da Dealznicks b/w Owl # One FORMAT: 12" YEAR: 199? LABEL: Ill-Sound Records I’ve got to admit, I’ve been ignoring those of you who frequent this website on a daily basis and are fiendin’ to hear some new mid 90s indy records for a while now. Not on purpose or anything, it’s just that at some point I got tired of hearin’ the same old shit over and over again. Of course there are a lot of mid to late 90s indy records that are worth searching for, but the majority of the ‘popular’ indy 12’s out there to me sound like blablabla over mediocre beats. To each his own of course, but I would take something from let’s say a Steady B or a Grand Daddy I.U. (two emcees I’ve been listening to a lot over the past few days) over a Brainwash 2000 12” any day, even if someone would give me a stack of $ bills in addition. |
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Written by Atilla Da Hun
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Apr 27, 2009 at 10:44 PM
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The academy of Vinyl Addicts had about a million sessions to bring you guys a whole new kind of interview. Why a 10 page interview, when all you need is 25 26 letters to know a person from A to Z. Today it's time for the legendary record collector/graff artist/dj/producer Aroe from Great Britain. Check these ones out if you still need an introduction: http://www.heavyartillerycrew.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/soundmakersproduction. |
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2 Too Many - Where's The Party? 12" |
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Written by Smoov
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Apr 19, 2009 at 04:44 PM
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 ARTIST: 2 Too Many
TITLE: Where's The Party?
FORMAT: 12" YEAR: 1993 LABEL: Jive / Zomba I don’t know what it is with you guys, but once the season changes from Winter to Spring and the sun starts shining more and more often I start listening to a different type of hip-hop. All of a sudden I just have a desperate need for records with a nice Summer vibe, you know, stuff like the first Ill Al Skratch LP, the previously reviewed “Swing Beat” 12” by Rock ‘N Gee & DJ Shawn, “Brown Sugar” off of Maestro Fresh-Wes’ excellent “Naaah, Dis Kid Can’t Be From Canada” LP, Rakim’s “New York To Cali” or the best one of them all, “Summertime” from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. Yeah, you’ve read it right. I don’t care how commercial or hip-pop that track is or how much everyone hates the fly Philly duo, “Summertime” in my opinion is the absolute best hip-hop Summer anthem ever, a 5-mic classic!!! There, I’ve said it and I will say it again and again if I have to… |
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