@colinwalker Thank you for a fascinating morning. I was going to say that [such things are rarely happen in isolation](https://thevinylfactory.com/features/a-brief-history-of-turntablism/) - which led me down the Jamaican (from whence Kool Herc came) sound systems of the late sixties early seventies rabbit hole - I had forgotten that [Big Youth was on Prince Buster's The Message](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDqKV

Happy Friday! And a very happy 50th birthday to Hip-Hop! August 11th 1973, when DJ Kool Herc held a party and used the 'merry-go-round' technique of playing the breaks from records, is the symbolic birthday of the Hip-Hop movement. It is seen as the moment when everything came together and a new culture ... colinwalker.blog

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@colinwalker Thank you for a fascinating morning. I was going to say that such things are rarely happen in isolation - which led me down the Jamaican (from whence Kool Herc came) sound systems of the late sixties early seventies rabbit hole - I had forgotten that Big Youth was on Prince Buster's The Message.

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