Name: Boombox 2: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-83
Brand: Various

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

sjrlp370

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Triple vinyl set with download code and extensive text and exclusive photographs across full colour inners. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-06-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5026328003702

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3 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Various

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Soul Jazz

Soul Jazz Records’ Boombox 2 is a new selection of early rap music from the period 1979 - 83, with barely a household name in sight. Featured here are some the earliest hip hop records that came out of New York City following the enormous commercial success of the first ever rap record, Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang, in September 1979. Artists and producers alike tried to jump aboard the new commercial possibilities of hip hop. By the end of the year there were 30 hip hop singles, all released by independent New York labels. The following year there were over 100 more and so on. Boombox 2 tells the story of how hip hop went from its evolutionary roots in the Bronx through DJs Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa through to its second phase where veteran music producers - Paul Winley, Peter Brown, Joe Robinson and others - all based in Harlem, began to put rap on vinyl for the first time. Harlem is also where the separate worlds of disco and hip hop met through the styles and influence of earlier ‘uptown’ DJs - DJ Hollywood and Eddie Cheba. In similar fashion these veteran Harlem- based producers instinctively tapped into a long lineage of African- American rhythm and blues, soul and disco. The album features extensive text, exclusive interviews and stunning photography by Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper and others.

2CD - Double CD Pack with 44 page outsize booklet containing extensive text and exclusive photographs.

3LP - Triple vinyl set with download code and extensive text and exclusive photographs across full colour inners. 

Boombox 2: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-83

Music GB