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What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
ListenWhat Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective by Steinski

In 1983, a 30-ish ad copywriter named Steve Stein and his sound engineer friend Doug DiFranco follow...

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Liquid Liquid
ListenLiquid Liquid by Liquid Liquid

The influential, ill-fated Liquid Liquid's output was relegated to just 3 EPs and 2 singles, release...

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Super Gold Greatest Hits
ListenSuper Gold Greatest Hits by Mingering Mike

This delightful and highly inventive collection of lo-fi archival recordings is the result of a wond...

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The Specialty Story The Orioles 1947-1955 Greatest Hits 1946-1953 Blues With A Beat

Post War R&B #1s by Michaelangelo Matos

The term "rhythm and blues" was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947, while the future Atlantic Records producer was working for Billboard magazine. Prior to Wexler's definitive phrase, which the weekly trade publication adopted for its ranking of the most popular African-American records in the nation in its June 17, 1949 issue, the black charts had been known as Race Records (February 1945 to June 1949) and before that, the Harlem Hit Parade (October 1942 to February 1945). This Dozen starts up after the end of World War...
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Innovative Life

A User's Guide to Electro Hip-Hop by Dave Tompkins

While Kraftwerk's legal team was busy trying to sue Tommy Boy Records for bogarting a synth riff, Los Angeles electro hip-hop went on to clone both plaintiff and defendant throughout the 1980s, long after New York had ditched the 123 BPMs of "Planet Rock" for RUN-DMC, Marley Marl and Roxanne's grandmother.

Because of this, the early ‘80s L.A. electro scene has often been treated with snickers and neglect, despite boasting some of the nastier DJs by any time zone. For a while, knowledge of early West Coast hip-hop was...
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Top Hip-Hop/R&B Tracks

  Listen Track Name Length Download
1. Listen Mastermind
Artist:
Deltron 3030
Album:
Deltron 3030
3:34 Download
2. Listen Ain't That Peculiar 4:36 Download
3. Listen Sexy Can I (feat. Yung Berg)
Artist:
Ray J
Album:
All I Feel
3:24 Download
4. Listen Handle Bars
Artist:
The Flobots
3:26 Download
5. Listen Inferno feat. Lunar Heights 5:58 Download
6. Listen Buff Nuff
Artist:
Roots Manuva
2:16 Download
7. Listen 3030
Artist:
Deltron 3030
Album:
Deltron 3030
7:29 Download
8. Listen Can't Knock The Hustle
Artist:
Jay-Z
5:17 Download
9. Listen Try A Little Tenderness [London]
Artist:
Otis Redding
7:01 Download
10. Listen Things You Can Do
Artist:
Deltron 3030
Album:
Deltron 3030
4:59 Download

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