Music

Double CD from the reliably excellent Soul Jazz featuring 16 early hip hop classics from 1979 to 1982. The militant funk of Brother D & The Collective Effort’s ‘How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise’ is the best known track here, but what’s been airbrushed from hip hop history is the SalSoul, disco, jazz-funk, proto-techno and Jamaican dub that backed those endearingly clumsy rhymes. Worth buying just for the 44-page booklet, which features fantastic pictures of flyers from those early NYC block parties.