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the first wire album i owned was called *In The Pink*. i bought it in the mid 80's. it was kind of a perfect album really. when i first bought the actual albums all i wanted to hear were the songs on that comp.

― scott seward, Monday, September 24, 2007 3:47 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what

― am0n, Monday, September 24, 2007 4:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i said the first wire album i owned was called *In The Pink*. i bought it in the mid 80's. it was kind of a perfect album really. when i first bought the actual albums all i wanted to hear were the songs on that comp.

― scott seward, Monday, September 24, 2007 5:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

: D

I think this may be my favorite thread I've ever started.

pyramids had polished limestone outer layers back in the day, could well have reflected enough light to be considered 'shiny'.

my camels will bring you home / if that whats on your mind

and was the Arabian Prince his protoge?

― jaxon, Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:33 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

They both were in Uncle Jamm's Army, as were DJ Pooh and Bobcat. I believe E Lover was the main man of that DJ team though.

Bob went on to form the LA Posse, producing LL's Bigger and Deffer (to Rick Rubin's dismay), and Pooh, aside from being King Tee's ace in the hole, I think produced some Snoop eventually (as did DJ Battlecat).

World Class Wrecking Crew and LA Dream Team were the upstarts that were trying to take over Uncle Jamm, and of course, Dre far outshined Egyptian.

The following is part 6 of 9 from the 1983 German documentary Breakin' and Enterein' that kinda downplayed the park jams and focused on the Radiotron youth center, giving way to the fame of Ice T and paving the way for the big(ger) budgeted Breakin'

Egyptian Lover on the wheels:

The footage of Ice dancing earlier in the film is priceless.

pooh's most known for his shit with ice cube but he did a bunch of stuff around that time - i think he was also behind del's first album

np:

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/051b4456b75044c457bca2e7f5b9e439.jpg

d^_^b

BREAKDOWN

DJ Pooh did killer shit for all of Ice Cube's prime era projects - Del, Da Lench Mob, Yo-Yo, etc

RIP Rodger Clayton of Uncle Jamm's Army.

http://s1.directupload.net/images/110202/scw2lwx3.jpg

BREAKDOWN

I played "Egypt, Egypt" out DJing last Thursday. I wish I'd done it all current-events-ironic-y, but no.

am0n quit being lame, "shiny" is a non-starter as a descriptor for pyramids and you know it

yes, i am a party rockist, i prefer to go to a place where people are, you know, having fun to fun music

― deej, Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:34 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

party rockist in the houuuuse tonight

hahahaha

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/egyptian-lover-rftf

ooh! look forward to reading this

awesome

great story: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/kraftwerk-changed-my-life-20-artists-pick-their-favourite-kraftwerk-records-of-all-time/2/

haha sweet

http://boingboing.net/2015/05/12/egyptian-lover-egypt-egypt.html

classic exchange with j0hn d itt

the rapping always sounded kinda...y'know..."the pyramids are oh so shiny" wtf are you talking about egyptian lover)

just a shot in the dark but i think he's talking about egypt

When the pyramids were built they were coated in polished limestone and often capped w a golden piece at the top, and supposedly actually _were_ shiny especially in contrast to the surrounding desert. They look rocky and Earthy to us now only because they have been sitting in the desert, periodically raided and dismantled, for thousands and thousands of years.

The old temples and stuff were similarly super colorful; a lot of the original paint remains even to this day.

lol I didn't see that before
xp

SS: Then the guy from Cybotron, Rick Davis, thought you were dead?

EL: He saw the headline: “Lady Diana Dies With Egyptian Lover.”

-- haitch, Monday, September 24, 2007 11:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

lmfaoooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiW7NbkhbJ0

did y'all know that Egyptian Lover released an album this year and every single track has the Numbers/Tour De France beat and it sounds fucking amazing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8x8oFp_-E8

!

http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/egyptianlover/1983-1988

And building on that new collection: I talked with the man himself.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/30/the-egyptian-lover-interview-electro-stones-throw-anthology

http://www.hexapolis.com/2014/10/31/historians-concur-great-pyramid-glass-like-shiny-4000-years-ago/

nice piece, ned!

Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BNUV9SiEVg

really cool new video feat. (among many) Lady Tigra of "Cars That Go Boom!"

https://67.media.tumblr.com/afc168482221c8836b3a0dfd7200399d/tumblr_n9oa3z4DJ81twulego6_500.gif
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I'm pretty lukewarm on most of his stuff but man I love "I Cry". Any recommendations on similarly moody 80s electroish stuff?

I don't know but here's Jeff Mills in 1983 scratching side two track two of the first release on Freak Beat Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uapn-mknXVU

Wow I didn't know Mills was active quite that early in the 80s