Download Electro Kingdom (right click and select “Save Link As…” or “Save Target As…”), or listen here:
01. Rock Steady Crew – B-Boys B-Girls
02. The B-Boys – Two, Three Break
03. Beatmaster – Lipservice
04. Pieces Of A Dream – Mt. Airy Groove
05. LTD – Cuttin’ It Up
06. Malcolm McLaren – Hobo (Scratch)
07. Art Of Noise – Beat Box
08. 2 Live Crew – Beat Box (Remix)
09. Herbie Hancock – Rockit
10. Man Parrish – Boogie Down Bronx
11. UTFO – Hangin’ Out
12. Jellybean feat. Madonna – Sidewalk Talk
13. Paul Hardcastle – Sound Chaser
14. GLOBE & Whiz Kid – Play That Beat Mr. DJ
15. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force – Renegades Of Funk
16. Newcleus – Jam On It
17. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam – I Wonder If I Take You Home
18. Shannon – Let The Music Play (12″ Extended)
19. Aleem – Release Yourself (Dub)
20. Unknown D.J. & 3D – Beatronic
21. Grandmaster & Melle Mel – White Lines (Don’t Do It)
22. Sir Mix-A-Lot – Square Dance Rap (Power Mix)
23. Adonis – No Way Back (Remix)
24. Freeze – IOU
25. Reggie Griffin & Technofunk – Mirda Rock
26. Tom Browne – Rockin’ Radio
27. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Firecracker
28. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force – Looking For The Perfect Beat
29. Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic 3 – The Roof Is On Fire
30. Nairobi & The Awesome Foursome – Funky Soul Makossa (Rap)
31. 2 Live Crew – Mr. Mixx On The Mixx!!
32. Visage – Pleasure Boys (Remix)
33. Paul Hardcastle – Rain Forest
34. Fat Boys – Beat Box Is Rockin’
35. Hashim – Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
36. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 – Scorpio
37. NWA – Panic Zone
38. Cybotron – R-9
39. Cybotron – Clear
40. Paul Hardcastle – The Asylum (It’z Weird)
41. Jive Rhythm Trax – 122 BPM
42. George Kranz – Din Daa Daa
43. Freestyle – It’s Automatic
44. Newcleus – Computer Age (Push The Button)
45. The Invisibles – Donkie Kong (Catch You In The Break)
46. Twilight 22 – Electric Kingdom
47. Debbie Deb – When I Hear Music
48. Egyptian Lover – Egypt, Egypt
49. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock
50. Kraftwerk – Numbers
51. Chris “The Glove” Taylor & David Storrs feat. Ice-T – Reckless
52. Sir Mix-A-Lot – Buttermilk Biscuits
53. The B-Boys – Rock The House
54. ABC – How To Be A Zillionaire!
55. Captain Rapp – Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)
56. Jonzun Crew – Pack Jam (Look Out For The OVC)
57. Alexander Robotnick – Problemes D’Amour (Ah Ou Ah Version)
58. Channel One – Technicolor
59. Chaka Khan – I Feel For You
60. Planet Patrol – Play At Your Own Risk
61. Model 500 – No UFO’s
62. Model 500 – Time Space Transmat
63. Model 500 – Future
64. Kraftwerk – Tour De France
65. Nice & Wild – Diamond Girl
66. Cli-N-Tel – 2030
Around 1996-1997, I got hip to the game about buying records online. I began using Sandbox Automatic and HipHopSite.com for a lot of the new records/CD’s, and eBay for a lot of the old records. I finally had access to all of the old school rap and electro records that I didn’t own back in the day. In retrospect, eBay really helped me get my weight up for my gig at Saint Andrew’s Hall (see my “Old School Hip Hop” post for more information about my residency there).
So between the years that I made “Old School Hip Hop” (1996) and “Electro Kingdom” (2000), I had been collecting a lot of classics that weren’t originally included in my “Old School Hip Hop” mixtape. And since I was playing them at Saint Andrew’s Hall (1999-2000), a few of the pop-lockers started telling me, “Yeah, I liked your Old School Hip Hop tape, but you didn’t have enough Electro on it. You only played a little bit of it at the end. You need to make me an Electro tape with all the stuff that you play every week!!” They slowly wore me down and made me realize that I needed to supplement my “Old School Hip Hop” mixtape with a new one that focused on the 120BPM+ songs that weren’t on it.
Back when I recorded “Electro Kingdom”, I had my day job, the Starving Artists Crew, Saint Andrew’s Hall, and all of my other side DJ gigs. I was a busy guy and didn’t have time to dedicate 2-3 months solely towards making yet another complex, tracked mix. Ultimately, I decided to record “Electro Kingdom” live, straight to cassette tape, one take per side.
“Electro Kingdom”, reviewed in Elemental magazine:
It should go without saying, but there just wasn’t enough room to include all of the songs that I remembered hearing back in the day, and there were still way too many songs that I didn’t own even when I recorded “Electro Kingdom”… so I will try to make up for some the missing songs right now:
Download Electro Kingdom Bonus Pack 1 (Unmixed)
• 2 Live Crew – Cut It Up
• Anquette – Shake It (Do The 61st)
• Arthur Baker – Breaker’s Revenge
• Beat Box Boys – Yum Yum (Eat Em Up)
• CD III – Get Tough
• Club’s Rappers – Like Eddie Did (The Eddie Murphy Rap)
• Cold Crush Brothers – Punk Rock Rap (Punk Rap Mix)
• Det Reirruc – Axel F (Club Version) (Latin Rascals Edit)
• Gigolo Tony – Hoki Poki
• GLOBE & Pow Wow – Celebrate! (Everybody)
• Magnificent Three & Fearless Master – Crush
• Man Parrish – Hip Hop Bee Bop (Don’t Stop)
• MC ADE – Bass Mechanic
• MC Shy D – Bust This
• MC Shy D – I’ve Gotta Be Tough
• MC Shy D – We Don’t Play
• Newcleus – Jam On Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)
• Pretty Tony – Get Some
• Quadrant Six – Body Mechanic
• Serious Intention – You Don’t Know (Special Remix)
• The Extra T’s – E.T. Boogie
• The Megatrons – Rock The Planet
Download Electro Kingdom Bonus Pack 2 (Unmixed)
• 2 Live Crew – What I Like
• Cat Stevens – Was Dog A Doughnut?
• Davy DMX – One For The Treble (Fresh)
• Dynamix II – Just Give The DJ A Break
• Facade – The Groove
• Gigolo Tony – Smurf Rock
• Harold Faltermeyer – Diggin’ In
• Harold Faltermeyer – Fletch Theme
• Harold Faltermeyer – Shoot Out
• Hashim – We’re Rocking The Planet
• Imperial Brothers – We Come To Rock
• Jimmy Spicer – Money (Dollar Bill Y’all)
• Jimmy Spicer – The Bubble Bunch
• John Rocca – I Want It To Be Real
• MC Shy D – Rapp Will Never Die
• Mixmaster Gee & The Turntable Orchestra – Like This
• Mixmaster Gee & The Turntable Orchestra – The Manipulator
• Mixmaster Gee & The Turntable Orchestra – The Manipulator (Dub)
• Model 500 – Bang The Beat
• Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic Three – Request Line
• Strafe – Set It Off
• Whodini – Magic’s Wand
• World Class Wreckin Cru – World Class
For more old school Rap and Electro songs, make sure to check out my “Old School Hip Hop“, “Cultural Vibe 2003“, and “Machine Soul” posts!
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