When the Arabian Prince cut his first record, few people east of San Bernadino had ever heard of the City of Compton and nobody had California in mind when they mentioned rap about street gangs. To an outsider, the scene in L.A. might have looked corny. Jheri curls, drum machines and dudes dressed in purple. Rap music was, sometimes literally, a joke. Bobby Jimmy and the Critters, a novelty act fronted by present-day shock jock Russ Parr attracted the best producers in Southern California, including Egyptian Lover ("We Like Ugly Women," 1984) and Arabian Prince ("Big Butt," 1984, [...]
Download (Right-Click Save As): MP3: Young MC - Bust a Move MP3: Newcleus - Jam On It MP3: Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two MP3: Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart MP3: De La Soul - Me, Myself And I Monsters of Rock (Buy)
Newcleus had been bouncing around the early hip-hop/breakdancing scene since 1977 when they were part of a DJ crew calling itself Jam On Productions, but it wasn't until 1983 and a chance encounter with a sped-up tape machine that they stumbled upon a hit. While many members came and went, the, uh, center of Newcleus (sorry) was Ben "Cozmo D" Cenac, who had some extra time to fill on a mixtape. Together with some family members, he recorded a favorite rap from their block parties, only this time with some of the vocals sped up, a la [...]
A precursor to the group, known as Jam-On Productions, formed in 1977 in Brooklyn, New York, which included teenagers Ben "Cozmo D" Cenac and his cousins Monique and Pete Angevin. The group's popularity grew as it played block parties in Brooklyn. By 1979, the primary group's members were Cozmo D, Yvette "Lady E" Cook (who [...]
Who remembers simpler times, when "electro" was a brand of hip-hip infused electronic-funk (if I've lost you, think Kraftwerk meets Frankie Smith meets Melle Mel ). All that together produced a brilliant and cutting edge sound unique sound that helped define the late 1980s. Of course today's "electro" is a different animal. The nature of language is to be lazy and things get truncated—so most of what ends up on this blog tagged as "electro" is more accurately "electro house", hard "synthpop", so-called "electroclash" (a term that's always had a messy ambiguity [...]
Newcleus - Jam On It And while I'm spotting samples from <a href=" http://dilate.choonz.com/index .php?id=1446" Aftermath , the "OooohhOooohhOooohhOooohh" vocal sample comes from towards the end of this track (at about 6.10). Fantasic old-school electro - all great fun with plenty Throw Your Hands Up In The Air and some crazy lyrics about rapping with Superman and so forth. Wikki! Wikki! Wikki! Wikki! File Download (6:29 min / 9 MB)
Our midwest homies Tactic just finished up a tour and dropped this mix and two tracks. Looking forward to working something out with them and Grinnell. Tactic - We've Only Just Begun 1. Chicken Lips - You Are Not Ready 2. Ark - Booty Shake 3. Twista Ft. Pharrell - Give It Up (DJ Hoff's Smoove Remix) 4. Klein & MBO - The MBO Theme 5. Etienne De Crecy - Out Of My Hands (Dj Mehdi Remix) 6. Ready For The World - Oh Sheila (Ben Tactic [...]
Aug 1, 2007, 1:36pm
MVSW
Here's the OS/OHW Wednesday video for this week: Newcleus ~ " Jam On It " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =7pWX46lJc1Y Lyrical Exerpt: Wikki-wikki-wikki-wikki Wikki-wikki-wikki-wikki Three words to the whack, step yourself back Just gettin' down, and you then you're givin' no slack Like a Burger King with a sack of Big Macs We're throwin' down with the radical sacks On time, in your mind you see You gotta boogie to your best ability [...]
Aug 1, 2007, 1:16pm MVSW
Song Jakobinaria ~ " Jesus " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =4J989pkVV1Q ~Icelandic Style~ It's nice to hear some new stuff from these guys. Hopefully they will release an album stateside soon. Currently, you can download a free mp3 for signing up for their newsletter . Video Newcleus ~ " Jam On It " ~OS/OHW Wednesday~ [...]
The 13th installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums ( read intro ) comes to us from neither an artist nor a blogger, but Adam Farrell, head of marketing for Beggars Group , proves to be a pretty damn good writer. (Also, he calls me a "publisher," which is flattering/hilarious.) Adam rekindles some memories from his childhood with this hip-hop mixtape. The Most Freshest Mixtape Ever Made By A 9-Year-Old First of all, big apologies to [...]
Newcleus - Computer Age . In pure tradition of NB1, keep the rules & dont forget the reverb of the electro boogie from early 80's. Newcleus, a band of musicians.. install on planet Earth, you can buy the EP Planet earth - SunnyView records
"JAM ON IT!" The origins of Newcleus lay in a 1976 Brooklyn DJ collective known as Jam-On Productions, which included Ben "Cozmo D" Cenac, his best friend David "Dr. Freeze" St. Louis, and Ben's cousins Monique "Nique D" Angevin and her brother Pete "Master Quadro" Angevin (all teenagers and still in high school). Many members (MCs as well as DJs) came and went as Jam-On rocked parks and block parties all over the borough. In 1981 Cozmo decided to create a recording group as an extension of Jam-On. The group included Cozmo, his wife Yvette ("Lady E"), Nique, and her [...]
i'm actually more of a marmalade kinda guy. Newcleus "Jam On It"
Sinceramente, no tengo ni idea de lo que es esto, pero me ha parecido un discazo tremendo que merece ser compartido y repartido. Por cierto, el tal Scott Lehr no era lo que se dice un buen chaval . 01 She's a Bad Mama Jama 02 The Smurf 03 Doing Da Butt 04 Jam On It 05 Oh Sheila 06 Sticky Situation 07 Strokin
In 2001, as part of the Rawkus fueled Lyricist Lounge compilations Mos Def recorded an homage to Jam On It . When it first came out, I wasn't diggin it at all. It always seemed like kind of a taboo thing to do - rerecord/cover a hip hop classic? Long story short, it grew on me. I'd sort of forgotten about the 123 untill recently. At my weekly gig, towards the end of my sets i've been seguing into more electro stuff as the night gets more jumpin. This [...]
“Jam On It†by Newcleus which clocks in at 8:15 Once upon a time some of my friends and I wanted to learn how to breakdance. We were 7-8 years old and super dorky little white suburban kids. We all had parachute pants and dreams of one day owning a Michael Jackson jacket and tons of arcade games in our house like Ricky in Silver Spoons. I remember my friend's older brother one day bringing home a 7" of "Hanging Out" by UTFO and playing the b-side for us. [...]
JAM ON IT (4-TRACK REFERENCE) JAM-ON'S REVENGE (4-TRACK DEMO) Newcleus Unreleased JAM ON REVENGE (INSTRUMENTAL) JAM ON REVENGE (ORIGINAL VINYL PRESS) ( follow link ) Newcleus Mayhew Records : 1983 Out of Print AUTOMAN (24-TRACK ROUGH MIX)( follow link ) COMPUTER AGE (4-TRACK DEMO) (follow link ) Newcleus CHILLY TRANQUILLY (4-TRACK DEMO) ( follow link ) Positive Messenger (Newcleus) IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU Cut King Out of Print Summer settles upon us, and various members [...]
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