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Weezman
11-15-2005, 01:15 PM
Anyone NOT familiar with this?

I wasnt. Until just this minute.

I downloaded a mix from the urban city mid-80's. (You know the kind where some of us old school'rs would stay up all night staring at radio recording mix tapes). :p

Midway thru the mix I heard ....this unique familiar voice.
It t'was ....MCA. I never heard this before.
I thought it was the BEASTIE BOYS...but it appears it was just MCA and Burzootie. It sounds like ROCK HARD.


Artist: MCA & Burzootie
Title: Drum Machine - 12"
Label: Def Jam - 1985
Producer: Jay Burnett

This cut is a rare solo project for MCA of the Beastie Boys - you know, when Def Jam record sleeves were purple. Anyway, whereas most rappers were speaking on their fresh rides, their duckets, their fly girls, or their DJ, MCA was bragging about his funky drum machine. For any producer out there trying to recreate that old-school sound, this song spits science on all the technical equipment needed to do so. The structure is ill, with no sign of a chorus anywhere. It's obvious that Rick and "Rush" allowed full creative control to their artists at the time. And what about the drum machine? Burzootie's programming was so complex that he must have a degree in computer science.


- Peace
Weezman
meniri mca
11-15-2005, 02:19 PM
:eek: COOL :cool: (y)
fonky pizza
11-15-2005, 02:37 PM
wow! would you be able to post it?

btw, check it out video clip i saw it again..and the star trek part is just even better now!!!! :D ;) :p
Weezman
11-15-2005, 02:45 PM
wow! would you be able to post it?

btw, check it out video clip i saw it again..and the star trek part is just even better now!!!! :D ;) :p


im here at work till 900pm....i'll try to do it later on this evening. (y)

unless someone else has it?
fonky pizza
11-15-2005, 02:49 PM
900pm....

Yo! what's the time?!

see ya later then, lol :D
paulb
11-15-2005, 03:29 PM
ya, Drum Machine is a song i play alot, i love it. so simple, great rhymes by MCA.
laurie_hammy
11-15-2005, 04:25 PM
ya, Drum Machine is a song i play alot, i love it. so simple, great rhymes by MCA.

Word
Weezman
11-15-2005, 04:29 PM
ya, Drum Machine is a song i play alot, i love it. so simple, great rhymes by MCA.

would it be something that you might wanna post?! :confused:
laurie_hammy
11-15-2005, 04:43 PM
would it be something that you might wanna post?! :confused:

Im sharing it on the hub, as well as a fair few others. If I had fast Internet id put it up to that site everyone uses. But cant sorry :o
paulb
11-15-2005, 05:00 PM
u can get it off the hub, or i can send it to by msn or somethin.
B.style
11-24-2005, 06:22 AM
Yeah, I had the album(unfortunately, for me, and I had misgivings about it, but I lent it to a 'friend' and that was the end of it) I had this album, I believe around 1985 and yeah, I really thought (then and now) I'm turning into a sound fiend. MCA really gets into it. That's what I like. Going off and shit. Yeah, I remember this is on def jam records, collaborating with someone named 'burzootie'. I still remember the lyrics, well parts of it, because the way MCA rhymes its pretty ill and fast(deliberately so, because it really wasn't for the general public, this is still, I believe and I may be mistaken, the original hip hop young generation that were privy to this) part of the snippets of lyrics go like this:

'tempo control, to make good music the inevitable goal"
"they did it for sex, all kinds of things
"and I can keep going(?) 'till the world is gone"
and nearing towards the end goes off into pyscho roar sound crescendo.
Those lyrics are a perfect picture of MCA's persona. Really, good.
breibender
11-24-2005, 06:28 AM
Pls let us be an part of this... give it to the world pls :)