Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five-On The Strength-LP-FLAC-1988-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
     Title   | On The Strength
     Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Album
     Source  | Vinyl                                Time    | 40:12
     Label   | Elektra Entertainment                Store   | 1988
     Catalog | 960 769-1                            Rip     | 2022
     Bitrate | 2831 kbps                            Size    | 855.52 MB
     Freq    | 96.0 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     A1. Gold                                                        4:19
     A2. Cold In Effect                                              2:43
     A3. Yo Baby                                                     4:30
     A4. On The Strength                                             4:44
     A5. The King                                                    3:17
     B1. Fly Girl                                                    5:13
     B2. Magic Carpet Ride                                           4:13
     B3. Leave Here                                                  3:57
     B4. This Is Where You Got It From                               4:06
     B5. The Boy Is Dope                                             3:10
 Notes  
     DJ Grandmaster Flash and his group the Furious Five were hip-hop's
     greatest innovators, transcending the genre's party-music origins to
     explore the full scope of its lyrical and sonic horizons. Flash was
     born Joseph Saddler in Barbados on January 1, 1958; he began
     spinning records as teen growing up in the Bronx, performing live at
     area dances and block parties. By age 19, while attending technical
     school courses in electronics during the day, he was also spinning
     on the local disco circuit.
     Over time, he developed a series of groundbreaking techniques
     including "cutting" (moving between tracks exactly on the beat),
     "back-spinning" (manually turning records to repeat brief snippets
     of sound), and "phasing" (manipulating turntable speeds) - in short,
     creating the basic vocabulary which DJs continue to follow even
     today. Flash did not begin collaborating with rappers until around
     1977, first teaming with the legendary Kurtis Blow. He then began
     working with the Furious Five - rappers Melle Mel (Melvin Glover),
     Cowboy (Keith Wiggins), Kid Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Mr. Ness aka
     Scorpio (Eddie Morris), and Rahiem (Guy Williams).
     The group quickly became legendary throughout New York City,
     attracting notice not only for Flash's unrivalled skills as a DJ but
     also for the Five's masterful rapping, most notable for their
     signature trading and blending of lyrics. Despite their local
     popularity, they did not record until after the Sugarhill Gang's
     smash "Rapper's Delight" proved the existence of a market for
     hip-hop releases; after releasing "We Rap More Mellow" as the
     Younger Generation, Flash & the Furious Five recorded "Superappin'"
     for the Enjoy label owned by R&B legend Bobby Robinson.
     They then switched to Sugar Hill, owned by Sylvia Robinson (no
     relation), after she promised them an opportunity to rap over a
     current DJ favorite, "Get Up and Dance" by Freedom (the idea had
     probably been originally conceived by Crash Crew for their single
     "High Powered Rap"). That record, 1980's "Freedom," the group's
     Sugar Hill debut, reached the Top 20 on the R&B chart on its way to
     selling over 50,000 copies; its follow-up, "Birthday Party," was
     also a hit. 1981's "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the
     Wheels of Steel" was the group's first truly landmark recording,
     introducing Flash's "cutting" techniques to create a stunning sound
     collage from snippets of songs by Chic, Blondie, and Queen.
     Flash & the Five's next effort, 1982's "The Message," was even more
     revelatory - for the first time, hip-hop became a vehicle not merely
     for bragging and boasting but for trenchant social commentary, with
     Melle Mel delivering a blistering rap detailing the grim realities
     of life in the ghetto. The record was a major critical hit, and it
     was an enormous step in solidifying rap as an important and enduring
     form of musical expression. Following 1983's anti-cocaine polemic
     "White Lines," relations between Flash and Melle Mel turned ugly,
     and the rapper soon left the group, forming a new unit also dubbed
     the Furious Five.
     After a series of Grandmaster Flash solo albums including 1985's
     They Said It Couldn't Be Done, 1986's The Source, and 1987's Da Bop
     Boom Bang, he reformed the original Furious Five lineup for a
     charity concert at Madison Square Garden; soon after, the
     reconstituted group recorded a new LP, 1988's On the Strength, which
     earned a lukewarm reception from fans and critics alike. Another
     reunion followed in 1994, when the Furious Five joined a rap package
     tour also including Kurtis Blow and Run-D.M.C. A year later, Flash
     and Melle Mel also appeared on Duran Duran's cover of "White Lines."
     Except for a few compilations during the late '90s, Flash was
     relatively quiet until 2002, when a pair of mix albums appeared: The
     Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on Strut and Essential Mix:
     Classic Edition on ffrr. Throughout the 2000s, as a performer, he
     remained a tireless hip-hop ambassador. He and the Furious Five were
     inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Two years
     later, Flash released an album, The Bridge: Concept of a Culture, on
     which he was joined by KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, Q-Tip, and Snoop
     Dogg, among other rappers.

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