Wonder What A 1977 New York City Park Jam Sounded Like?

[OxyKon]

Bringing the earliest days of Hip-Hop to the digital age is a challenge. While DJ Kool Herc, DJ Red Alert, and Grandmaster Melle Mel (among many others) are highly active in telling the story, and presenting the culture they helped create, other things are harder to find.

Pioneering DJs like Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, The Disco Twins, Pete “DJ” Jones and others can tell you about their playlists. These icons can recall which 12″ singles (some of which had covered-up labels at the time) really opened up the party. These mixmasters can debate who played which breaks first, and who freaked these musical moments better. But how often can Heads in the 2010s really hear it as it was?

This weekend, cultural purveyor Hass718 shared a 40-minute segment from Elmhurst, Queens believed to be in the iconic 1977 year. The same calendar that brought the Blackout, Reggie Jackson’s “Mr. October” New York Yankees slug-fest, and the Son Of Sam’s arrest, delivered this party-in-audio. Recorded at P.S 127, Heads can hear the slang, catch the amazing rarities spun, and even get a taste of the Colt 45 beers for sale for 60¢ a pop—with some crazy on-the-mic advertising. This is just one party among many that era (and one that’s short on much info), but to the folks behind the wheels of steel, it rocks in ’15 just like it sounds like it did in ’77!

http://soundcloud.com/hass718/01-127-park-1977-side-a

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[russell]

nice.

[OxyKon]

yeah i thought it was a really cool set, this was the birth of Hip Hop this decade

[russell]

I love this kinda music anyway but hearing a recording like that and giving it some context is amazing.

The highlight is the peter brown track.

[OxyKon]

Dude, there are too many tracks to highlight in it, was raised on a lot of it

[Cupe]

Need to start playing shit on cassettes again

[OxyKon]

Word, I've always wanted to find a quality boom box

[Cupe]

Cassettes were reportedly going to start costing heaps

Like those 5 packs of blanks were going to be selling for above $40 and shit

[OxyKon]

I know I still have shit loads hidden away in my room somewhere

[Cupe]

Keep 'em bro

There will be a mad cassette war of 2045 coming

[OxyKon]

Oh I had no plan of getting rid of them, they're just collecting dust, was cool the way I used to make mix tapes back in the day, who would've thought back then I'd be a dj today

[eggssell]

i bought a national panasonic ghetto blaster from ebay

old man had been using it in his study to listen to soccer on the radio for years. works perfect and in mint condition. even the cassette player.

ive been using it as my iphone speakers in the office for years.

stupid movers cracked one of the switches. i was pissed.

ive still got my stack of cassingles