Tribe - "Midnight Marauders"

SSL Control Vinyl.

I got a lot of records now (well not compared to you guys) but they were all given to me.

Sole Tech - Chuck/Jit Anthem
Jay Dee - Plastic Dreams
Cajmere - Perculator
and
Interactive - Elevator Up and Down

I started buying records cause i couldn't find these tracks on any cd or compilation at the time.

Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew with MC Ricky D
Side A: The Show
Side B: La Di Da Di

I bought at a store called Licorice Pizza in Torrance, California. That store has long been closed down.

NO wait im lyin, i bought eddie murphys Party all the Time wayyy back when i was a kid.

As a kid, my first record was "Hey DJ" on 45 that I use to try to scratch with on my fisher price record player. Im talking about the first record u bought to start ur passion.

I'm just a bit different than most and what I bought is like to get some laughs (especially if I list the first 3-4 albums I bought):

Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing
Bought in approx. 1977

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (7 Minutes of Madness Remix)

@ AL's Used Cd's & Records on 38th St.

don't laugh......

cover girls album

ha ha ha ha ha ha

M M MMmmmm Mic Miccccc Miccccroooo .. wa waaaaaa waaaave!

lol

I own an Andrew Dice Clay cassette tape from the 80's

Jackson 5ive - ABC/I Want You Back
Jackson 5ive - I'll Be There/Who's Lovin You

both on 45 both original pressings total cost lol at the low low price of $0.50

I can't laugh Benny Goodman is the shit, if you like jazz and swing from back in the day Goodman had some tights tracks that he laid down

Redman-Whateva Man
DJ Kool -Let me Clear my throat

Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

His 1938 Carnegie Hall album is still considered one of the greatest recordings ever....

as a kid:

Saturday Night Fever sound track
Grease sound track



when i started dj'n:

Egyption Lover - What is a Dj if he can't Scrath?
Newcleus - Jam on it
Debbie Deb - When i Hear Music
Menage - Memories

The Fat Boys' first album (1984)

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Tell me you can do the dance!!!!!!

Heavy D & the boys - "We got our own thang"

M.C. Shan

Militia - Burn....that song was hot when I first started buying my own vinyl...haha

notorious big- ready to die
2pac greatest hits

my first beat juggle was that instrumental.

Original thread here:
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from that thread:

Dude, my mom even has it recorded. I had that shoulder twitch thing down cold, Harlem Shake 80's style!

Never did find the red jacket in my size though lol

my 1st one is common- the corner

haha yeah i'm nu skool

fatass.

haha

No 'Fat Guy In A Little Coat' action here. I was 5 when that joint came out!

First Album I bought (wayyyyy back in the stone ages) was by Graham Central Station - Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It. I think I was about 11 or 12 yrs old,

It had this one song on it called The Jam that was UNBELIEVABLY funky with a lot of solos, done like James Brown use to do (give the drummer some).

heres a link to it on Amazon:

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Radio would play it every once in awhile but the song was 8 minutes plus so it got very little airplay. Most songs in that day HAD to be 3 1/2 mins or less to be played.

I've always remembered having records around the house. I bought many 45's before starting to DJ. My first trip to the local record stores as an aspiring DJ netted me about 10 records. These are the ones I remember:

Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force

Looking for the Perfect Beat - Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force

Play At Your Own Risk - Planet Patrol

Pac Jam - The Jonzun Crew

Magic's Wand - Whodini

Change the Beat - Fab 5 Freddy

Scorpio - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

and I think, It's Magic - The Fearless 4

Those records kept me occupied for days and days and days...

Pamp & da knox-Butta

Charlie Green - Bus Stop (Electric Slide)

dj rectangle scratch record back in 1989

Rectangle made it to DMC in 1991 and was beat by Qbert. He won his first in 1993. His first record came out in 1994.

Maybe 1998?

Shit you made me search for that battle now....

Watchwww.youtube.com

Damn NOW I know where DJ DOMINATION get his ideas from. Rectangle worked out in that one....

LOL... taking you back to the Oldddd SCHOOOOLLLLL.....

Man I feel like a super newbie in this thread. I remember driving to rasputin records in fremont after school the day after my tables came in and I copped about 10 pieces that day. All I remember is....

Krayzie Bone - Thug Mentality
Mos Def - Ms. Fatbooty
A Drag-On record

Among other things....

Notorious BIG - Big Poppa 12"

it was a white label------ i still have it lol!

i still have all my vinyl.
i collected house and club freestyle when i started.

Even as a joke please don't put DJ domination in the same sentence as ANY Dj with Talent

Thriller by M.J.
Metal Health by Quiet Riot

Gottem' both at Woolworth Dept. Store


Way Back

bionic booger breaks

First one was the Michael Jackson - Bad Album!
this one is still rockin sometimes on a gig :)

Big Daddy Kane "Raw" 12 inch.

that white rectangle was the bomb... mine is beat to hell.

first record I bought was - A guy called gerald - voodoo ray. was way before I started getting into DJin but it wasn't available on tape so had to buy it on vinyl :)

but the first record I owned was the fraggle rock soundtrack.

picked up voodoo ray in '88 I think..

Village People

First 45 - Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
First LP - Cruisin' - Village People (Don't Laugh)
First Disco Single - I Don't Know If It's Right - Evelyn Champange King

on the flip side of that a guy called gerald is one of my favorite's blow your house down that record is out of print and impossible to find anymore!

u need a copy? hahahahahahaha

i bought one off of the dj at joe dumars field house for $20 in 1995

All Eyez on Me LP

Criminal Minded - BDP

comptons most wanted "straight check em" that album was sick btw

1st 12"

Dilated Peoples "Guaranteed"

Still have it, has mad record burn, and pops, and crackles....so I did what any self respecting DJ would do... Recorded it into SSL and spin it!

Pops managed a record store, so wax adorned all walls of my house since birth.
First record I bought was "Star Wars and other Galactic Funk by Meco" in 1980. I was four.

Princess Leia had me open!

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When I was a little scrawny kid ... Upside Down - Dianna Ross. Played that sucker on the 'record player' till the cows came home.

that's a good question, i'd guess mobb deep shook ones/ shook ones pt II.

The GrandMixer D.ST - Crazy Cuts!

such a good fucking song!

I wore the hell out of that record.

First 12" was Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt. Bought it from Rainbow Records in 1985 if I remember correctly.

I remember copping Egypt, Egypt with the Sleazeboyz's Robocop. Still got both vinyls.

Same here... at least 2 copies of each floating around in my crates somewhere.

Anyone in Cali remember Norwalk Records? I spent a grip of money there in my days.

my first record - Dan Morgan's Flowerchild on the A and a couple of Damon Wild tracks on the B.
Geometric/Synewave 1995

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the A still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

i STILL SPEND A GRIP OF $$ THERE OCASIONALLY!...That place had everything man!

Sweet. Yeah, I've known Bill and the family for YEARS (back in the 80's). I need to stop by there and drop a paycheck like the old days. Scotty, you coming to the next JammyJam?

norwalk...when i moved up here from sd, that's where i bought my records.

Yezzzzir! i will be there.

Styx - Kilroy Was here &

Culture Club - Colour by Numbers in 1983... bought em from a drug store in Pacifica, Ca.

funny story..yeeeeaaarrrrs later that drug store closed and was replaced by a music instrument / dj equipment store called Manor Music... and if any DJd in the Bay Area in the 80s n 90s, then you KNOW Manor Music..

first records i ever "mixed" Robocop - Sleeze Boys & throw that D - 2 live Crew - Oct 18, 1989 (day after the earthquake)

Ha, yo! That was my first album I bought...The Star Wars Original Motion Picture Soundtrack! And *don't laugh* my mom bought me "The William Tell Overture", cuz I loved watchin "The Lone Ranger" ! ! lol *don't laugh, I said!*
Man I had mad wax as a kid! Thriller, Bad, Beat Street Soundtrack (Vol. 1 & 2), Breakin' Soundtrack, Whodini, Fat Boys, Run DMC, Beasties, Kool Moe Dee, Eric B. and Rakim....*sigh* if only we could go back

Walking On Sunshine - Rocker's Revenge
Juicy Fruit - Mtume

God, high school DJ (1983) in Thousand Oaks, CA. I didn't eat so I could save my lunch money. Went to the local "cool" record store after school called "Gone Platinum". I bought Tears for Fears - "The Way You Are" 12"UK import. My first record, I still have it!

I actually had an album by Mirror Image called 'Sounds like the Village People'....

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the first record I ever bought was doug E Fresh & The Get fresh Crew - The Show. Looooooooooooooooong time ago!

But at the time i wasnt djing! I was really young & Liked the inspector gadget bassline!

first bought in the states Run DMC - Raising Hell Album

You be illin

Step into a World -- KRS 1
Sunshine -- Jay Z

Single of Run DMC - Peter Piper on Side A, My Adida's Side B

Your single was split like that? All of mine are Side A - My Adidas / Peter Piper, Side B - My Adidas (Instrumental) / Peter Piper (Instrumental).

Very first record I ever bought? Had to be Beastie Boys - License to Ill from a yardsale for $0.50. Didn't even have a turntable then, I just thought it was cool. Now I have so much vinyl I'm having to keep some of the crap out in the shed.

Kano - "Holly Dolly"/"I'm Ready"

www.discogs.com

Sugar Hill Gang-Rappers Delight

Slick Rick - Children's Story
Soul 2 Soul - Back 2 Life
Kwame - Ownlee Eue

We used to own a record store. In San Diego when i was a kid but my first dj record was a record called computer wars by Beagan Beagan. has any one heard this song or artist i will give $20 dollars to who ever can get this record . I think i am the only one that still has a copy and it has to be an original copy no down loads or remade copys.

temptations... (at least the first one i remember)

The first record I bought was black.

what? you dj so bad that every record you've bought they made you give back?

You DJ so bad, every record you ever bought was warped on purpose!
lol

yeah... and you paid for them because you thought they were cool

First Singe : Tell me : Grove Theory
First 45(s) : Every tune on the Quarter to Twelve riddim (again for those of you that don't know Jamaica is the 45 capital of the world. I still ave a shitload of my dancehall on 45's back home.)

You DJ so bad, you thought a 45 was a gun.

Btw, I got a gang of 45's... I don't recall the first 45 I bought though.

But I know it was black! :P

Nas - Illmatic, then Ill Al Scratch - Where my Hommies (go figure)!

sorry, but i have to do another...

you dj so bad that you think that discription helps us guess what album it was...

Malcolm Mclaren - Duck Rock

Herbie Hancock - Rock it

Colt 45's? :P

Let's see..... Dr. Dre - Next episode 12

But it's got maaaaaaaaaaaaad cue burn and a shitload of static and it skips in some places

I tore that record to hell..... still got it

yo grand t, care to post a quick 15 sec sample, really curious of what it sounds like

ha :)

i still remember the day when my buddie ran up to us with that record in hand (light blue with the rainbow fruit bowl lookin horn thingie) right before we drove off to the the airport in Clark Air Force Base Philippines on our way to the States '79

... Todd was his name, a hella cool white dude :) he was like "hey guys, you really gotta hear this, it this new kind of music, its these guys who talk realllly fast, but aren't really singing"

You're right. But there definetly wasn't a Peter Piper instrumental on mine.... and i'm still trying to find a good quality version of it!

good luck with finding a clean copy... that's everyones first record they learned to juggle on. watch them sleeves!

minez is laid out the same way. vocal/vocal over inst/inst

Attitude- We got the Juice

That was a nice cut i used to mix and scratch the hell out of We got the juice. We partyed hard to that cut back in the day. That cut used to rock the spot and the different mixes on the 12 inch was the shit.

DJ Trace - Mutant Revisited / Liberty - Emotif Recordings

First record: The Adventures of Spider Man Vol. II

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First 12" SIngle: The day after I graduated from 8th grade, moms took me to The Wherehouse (80's record chain) and I picked up New Order's "Blue Monday" on Factory Records (with the cool die cut "floppy disk" sleeve) & The Cure's "Let's Go To Bed" on Fiction UK...

DAMN!

That's the Throwback Of The Day ladies and gentlemen.

very nice indeed!!!!

Used to cain that track in the old days of pirate radio!!!!

I love this thread!

as a kid:

I think it was The Village People - YMCA on 45


When I decided I wanted to be a DJ:

It was 2 copies of the Run DMC - Peter Piper/My Adidas 12". The album wasn't out yet and I had my first pair of turntables on Lay-A-Way in 1986. Although I could listen to them on one of those Record Player/8-track/AM-FM radio consol things that were passed down the family.

Hangin' Touch : NKOTB

Don't forget old fucks like me are on the Board now dawg...

I had that record somewhere. Would have helped if you spelled it right (Began Began).

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I remember it being on that brown label One Way - is that the original. I won't hold U to the $20 but next time I go digging in the basement, I'll see if I have it still. That was around the time I first started to DJ, damn.

Man, you guys are taking me way back, my first record is when i was 6, my mom bought me a sesame st record, and my aunt bought me Fatboy's "Crushin" album.... I used to scratch the sesame st record back and forth and my dad used to yell at me and tell me i was going to ruin his needles. this was in 1985...........

i'm not sure but i think it was 'enigma - sadness' - almost 100%

:)

Nas - Illmatic

The fisrt record I bought with my own money was "Wipe Out" by the Fat boys feat. The Beach Boys. 2nd was"The Twist" by the Fat boys.

1st record I ever owned was a 45 of Kung Fu Fighting.

DJ Assault - Ass n' Titties.

Ass, Ass, Titties, Titties;
Ass n' Titties!

LOL...

man now that does take me back!!! my dad shouting about needles that is!!

I used to roll my finger over the volume knob to get "cuts" too

ha ha ha!

South Bronx BDP

Michael Jackson-Thriller

I was in like second grade and my aunt took me and my brother to Wal-Mart and let us each pick out a record for Christmas. I don't remember what my brother got but I still have that record and most of it is still playable. And yes Wal-Mart used to sell vinyl back in the early eighties.

the witch doctor- Armani van helden and no reason to cry - judy torres ( glen friscia, richie santana rmx)

jaydee - plastic dreams (the original)

Rozalla - Everybod'y Free (To Feel Good)

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This is the original from 1992, not the RHV remix.

Hot Blood - Disco Dracula

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wow I remember her performing that at my local nightclub on an under 18's night. (That was a very very long time ago now)

L.L. Cool J - Radio was my first owned record. I was always stealing cassette tapes from the older dudes around the neigborhood and playing with my parents 45's though. I still have most of those 45's too.

I'm old. Bill Withers- "Lean On Me". Did I mention I'm old? I was about 10 when I got that on a 45. When I was 21 or so, I already had a decent vinyl collection of shit I liked, and the club I spun at had a good collection of club music. But when I got a gig doing a dance at a high school, I remember buying "Angel" b/w "Into The Groove" & "Let's Go Crazy" b/w "Erotic City" on 12".

doubles of Super Duck Breaks

Jess & Crabbe / The Big Booya EP

ak1200- junior's tune.

Scarface - The Diary
and
Saukratex - Still Caught Up

Scarface - The Diary

Saukrates - Still Caught Up

Ok I was thinking of the first record I bought intended to mix and the 1st record I actually owned r two different answers.

1st record I think was a Smurf read along album which I used to scratch on my play school plastic turntable. DOPE!! Or it was some Menudo record.. lol

Rare Arts - Wepa Man

Nas-Nas is like 12"