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Hip Hop Instrumental Music Mix

It sounds like a paradox: instrumental hip-hop. For all logistical purposes, it is. "How can it be instrumental when there ain't no instruments!" barks the "real" musician. "How can it be rap when there ain't no MC and there ain't no wicky-wicky-wicky!" shouts the hip-hop purist. Of course sometimes there are "real" instruments, sometimes there is an MC, and sometimes there is scratching. But on the whole, sample-based instrumental artists like DJ Shadow, RJD2 and Prefuse 73 are a long way from the sound of their forebears. In one sense, they've pushed rap music to the apex of its identity crisis, thus alienating a hell of a lot of hip-hop artists and fans. But in another sense, they've taken rap back to square one.

I'm not going to pretend that I know what square one was like, because I was no taller than a twelve inch, and nowhere near The Bronx, when guys like Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Wizard Theodore, and Grandmaster Flash were laying hip-hop's sonic groundwork. Nonetheless, its story is one that's well known. Kool Herc was the first DJ to utilize instrumental "breaks", thereby extending the ass-shakin' breakdowns from funk records by artists from James Brown to The Average White Band. Afrika Baambaata was a former gangster (Black Spades) turned brain trust for the Zulu Nation, a hip-hop collective spawned in the mid-'70s; he was also the avid record collector responsible for "Planet Rock", the cut that lifted the beat from Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express". Grand Wizard Theodore was the first DJ to scratch, while Grandmaster Flash, the most notorious of the four, turned DJing into an art and used his electrician's experience to tweak his gear and almost single-handedly create hip-hop's DJ technology.

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