DJ Kool
A fusion of feel-good go-go music with hip-hop's original block-party aesthetic led DJ Kool to the fore in rap's return to the old school during the late '90s. A veteran of D.C.'s go-go circuit who worked as a warm-up DJ for Rare Essence during the early- to mid-'80s, Kool began recording in 1988 and early on tried to inform the studio art of hip-hop with a live feel in keeping with his experience. His first album, The Music Ain't Loud Enuff, used call and response much like early hip-hop and go-go (and also included the hip-house track "House Your Body" prefaced by a remarkably accurate monologue on the history of house music).
Kool took it to the stage in 1992 with the mini-LP 20 Minute Workout, recorded live in Richmond, VA, and released on Steve Janis' CLR Records. By the time of 1996's Let Me Clear My Throat, mostly recorded live in Philadelphia, the East Coast underground was buzzing about Kool's way with a crowd. American Records won a five-way bidding war and reissued Let Me Clear My Throat early the following year; providing remixes of the title track were Funkmaster Flex and Mark the 45 King (whose funky underground hit "The 900 Number" was the basis for the title track in the first place), helping it climb into the Top Five on the rap charts. In mid-2000, he and Fatman Scoop released the remixed Rob Base classic "It Takes Two."
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Diskografie
9 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Let Me Clear My Throat
Hip-Hop/Rap - Erschienen bei American Recordings Catalog P&D am 01.04.1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Music Ain't Loud E-Nuf
Hip-Hop/Rap - Erschienen bei Essential 12 Classics am 30.06.1988
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
I Can Make You Dance
Hip-Hop/Rap - Erschienen bei Essential 12 Classics am 21.07.1991
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
What the Hell You Come in Here For?
Hip-Hop/Rap - Erschienen bei Essential 12 Classics am 23.06.1989
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
How Low Can You Go
Hip-Hop/Rap - Erschienen bei Essential 12 Classics am 14.07.1988
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Reggae Dance
Hip-Hop/Rap - Erschienen bei Essential 12 Classics am 21.07.1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cha Cha Remixx (Dj Kool Remix)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Erschienen bei DJ Kool am 22.07.2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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