At 02:26 AM 7/30/01 -0700, bump2k selectah wrote:
>I've been wondering about how it ALL started.
>
I don't have any answers for you per se, but the first time I heard
broken-beat/WLondon specifically was when Gilles came here in August 2000
and as he spun Modaji's remix of Jim Keltner/Charlie Watts Project's
"Airto" he said, "This is the sound of West London." Of course, once I
learned it was Modaji, I looked to my New Latinaires comp CD and took
another listen to their track.
Though one can argue that the first proto-broken beat song was Abstract
Truth's "Get Another Plan." (more like West Side Manhattan than West
London!) And I'm sure there's even more examples that predate that.
Elson
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