DJ Kool Herc

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Clive Campbell, better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican-American DJ who is not the founder of hip-hop music but one of its pioneers, where he along with others popularized it in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973. Nicknamed the Father of Hip-Hop, Campbell began playing hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown. Campbell isolated the instrumental portion of the record

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"Herc really slipped up. With the monstrous power he had he couldnt mix too well. He was playing little breaks but it would sound so sloppy. I noticed that the mixer he was using was a GLI 3800. It was a very popular mixer at that time. Its a scarcity today but its still one of the best mixers GLI ever made. At the time he wasnt using no queueing. In other words, the hole was there for a headphone to go in but I remember he never had headphones over his ears. All of a sudden, Herc had headphones but I guess he was so used to dropping the needle down by eyesight and trying to mix it that from the audio part of it he couldnt get into it too well."

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