June 23, 2012

Bomb The Bass - Megablast (Original Rap Version)


After many attempts at locating this particular version I finally had the good fortune of stumbling across it and I do mean stumbling. The recent bombardment of mix tapes with unknown or 'random' rap cuts have made me in to a bit of a wreck trying to track down certain records that I never knew existed, which admittedly is a lot easier nowadays what with the internet and all, but also actually owning quite a few that were featured is a surprise and also makes me glad I don't have to shell out silly money to get them. I'm referring in particular to the excellent 'Crown Jewels' series of mixes by King Aroe and the Sound Makers, volume 2 containing this excellent version of a reasonably popular record from the late eighties. It came free with a copy of the Record Mirror and on the back of the sleeve states, 'unavailable elsewhere' although I was told just yesterday by an online acquaintance that this was on the LP which made me feel slightly miffed but I only paid 99p so who could grumble at that? There's loads of these on discogs and they're all incredibly cheap, some starting at 75p and I only went for the 99p one because of the very reasonable p&p the seller was asking for. There's 3 other tracks on it too, all pretty ordinary and not worthy of a mention here but I ripped the whole thing anyway for the completists among us. All hail Michael Viner and his Incredible Bongo Band.

2 comments:

  1. Hey Moyinka, this an interesting post that has helped jog my memory. I used to buy Record Mirror myself in the late 80's and still have a couple of these 7" freebies (but I don't think I've got this one from memory). There was a Derek B single, but I need to dig out the others to see what I've got.
    This was a top choon and Merlin was a very under rater emcee.

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  2. dig away Mike Check, be interesting to see what else they offered up. I saw sure beats two but it wasn't as 'exclusive' as this first one so I passed that one by.

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