i'm talking about on record!...When hip hop records dropped.

Of course djs sought out albums ,played in the park, and had battles, but I'm talking about songs.

There was no boom bap back then, and there were no SP1200s or MPCs. Cats were using drum machines and synths to make tracks, and house music artists were doing the same thing.


Hip hop's sound back then was disco,eletric,and slightly new wavish.The digging in the crate came along in mid 80s, when hip hop became less electric and bass influenced, and the old school sound went to a more groove, soulful sound.

mantronix 85:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgD4x_SfyD8

eletric/new wavish/ freestyle ..and far from boom bap...that was in 83

cybetron:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGqiBFqWCTU&feature=fvwrel


That was hip hop in the old school era