Recent content by Downstroke

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    HipHop is Heterosexual, Rap is Bisexual (Brand Nubian-Related)

    phongone said: Whether I agree with the sentiment or not is irrelevent, that tune is fucking horrible! I personally always prefered the radio verision of PJUTGBD, where he replaced the word faggot with sissy, I know it means basically the same thing, but it just has a...
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    Christmas [Holiday] Albums that don't suck

    Can't say this is a back to back classic, but the title track is worth the price of admission.
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    Strutter produced Action Bronsen track??

    The artwork is the nuts. Krum is that dude.
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    p??o?????? d???? ??????n ??s????????????

    J i m s t e r said:Come on. HMWYRS is not rap. The rule should be it was intentionally and obviously a rap rekkid. Like pr0n, it's hard to define accurately but you know it when you see it. Not wanting to debate semantics here, but I'd say if that Lorraine Chase record...
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    This has got to be a contender
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    HBS Music Archaeology

    YES, wondered when these vids would turn up on teh Strut radar. Been following these for a minute now, the enthusiasm shown in these vids is really infectious.
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    Thinking of dabbling in the dark arts (Serrato / Traktor - r)

    I rep the Traktor camp, but kinda wish I went Serato only because it's a pain in the ass rigging up the Traktor box when taking over from a DJ rocking Serato. I opted for Traktor Scratch Duo because it was the most affordable option at the time, and I wasn't especially interested in all the...
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    Sister Nancy question

    Dancehall and hip hop sat side by side in London since the mid eighties. As far as I can recall, Asher D & Daddy Freddy got the ball rolling on wax with Raggamuffin Hip Hop in 87, but first time I heard Bam Bam was on Sindecut's 'Can't Get Enough (Of Who?)' in 88. I remember there was a lot of...
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    Cypress Hill ”Real Estate”/”Sexy Coffee Pot” question

    mannybolone said:I hit up Joe "The Butcher" and he said, "I remember it as a replay." Wow, this leads me to wonder how much else on that album is re-played, and also why they felt they needed to on Real Estate as there was still quite a Wild West attitude to sampling around 90-91...
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    Cypress Hill ”Real Estate”/”Sexy Coffee Pot” question

    jammy said:Herm said:Downstroke said:It's a lowpass job, the baseline is chopped off at the snare and filtered. I did a quick bodge job on this to test my theory and it seems to stand up, (I quickly did this in Garageband at work, so it's by no means an exact duplicate of what Muggs did, but...
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    Cypress Hill ”Real Estate”/”Sexy Coffee Pot” question

    It's a lowpass job, the baseline is chopped off at the snare and filtered. I did a quick bodge job on this to test my theory and it seems to stand up, (I quickly did this in Garageband at work, so it's by no means an exact duplicate of what Muggs did, but you'll get the idea???)
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    Beat making blogs

    It's all gone pretty quiet on that front. I used to post regularly on the CK forums, but it started to get pretty tedious with the same topics going into general rotation. Morbid curiosity leads me to Future Producers on occassion but I make a hasty exit pretty quickly. Louis Den's forum used to...
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    Take Me To the Mardi Gras Soulstrut Beatoff - Official Voting Thread

    Egoflippin just put a big smile on my face!
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    Lisa Stansfield appreciation

    She was also a presenter of kids music show Razzmatazz in the early 80's (see begining of video): As far as I recall, she was pretty firmly footed in the pop mainstream, despite having a great set of lungs. I remember hearing about how well she went over across the pond to...