11/11/2022 0 Comments White jbl flip 2![]() ![]() Meanwhile, mixtape DJs such as Doo Wop and Tony Touch began to press up vinyl collections of their most popular exclusives from their tapes and CDs, while others assembled some priceless live recordings on wax. ![]() Available in a variety of different colours, these compilations once commanded high prices among rap fanatics who rarely had the opportunity to play this kind of material outside of 10th generation tape dubs. The two volumes of Freestyle Frenzy, released by the UK’s Liberty Groove label, assembled legendary rhyme sessions from the Stretch Armstrong Show, showcasing some of the earliest appearances from Nas, Big L, Wu-Tang Clan and O.C. At the same time, rare groove bootlegs became a major cottage industry as many of the original songs sampled on rap tracks became highly sought after as the crate digging culture became more widespread.īefore long, enterprising record collectors began releasing unlicensed collections of vaguely hard to find singles, unreleased tracks and remixes from artists such as Gang Starr ( The Earlier Years ), Das-EFX ( Phat Classics ) or Slick Rick ( The Ruler’s Remixes ), or instrumental versions of albums (including crudely looped ‘fake’ instrumentals taken from the first four bars of the song), but as demand grew, bootleggers began digging deeper to get their sweaty mitts on unreleased demos, alternate mixes of songs and highly sought-after radio freestyles. Many of the earlier hip-hop bootlegs were simply white label pressings of popular rap singles that were only pressed in limited quantities or were ‘promo only’, during that period in the early nineties when major record labels decided it was time to kill off vinyl altogether when they figured out that CDs were infinitely more profitable than pressing LPs. Having access to loud vinyl pressings was the only way that records could be included in mixshows and club sets, which resulted in a huge demand for certain songs which weren’t released as singles or were CD-only bonus tracks. Vinyl has been the domain of collectors and scenesters for some time now, but there was a time when it was an essential part of any DJ’s arsenal. ![]()
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