Details Release Date: May 07, 2002; Lead Performance: Grandmaster Flash; Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Before hip-hop, urban dance floors moved without prejudice to a range of sounds -- disco, funk, electro, soul. Turntable pioneer Flash re-creates that stellar era on this mix of tracks that ignores borders, bridging James Brown's frenetic funk breaks and Cymande's elastic bass lines and reverberating chants to Blondie's effervescent new wave and Nu Shooz's synth bursts.

Originally posted May 31, 2002 Published in issue #656 May 31, 2002 Order article reprints

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