Grandmaster Flash The Furious Five The Message
From 1982 Album: The info Get The Music: DJ Grandmaster Flash and his group the Furious Five were hiphop s greatest innovators, transcending the genre s partymusic origins to explore the full scope of its lyrical and sonic horizons. Flash was born Joseph Saddler in Barbados on January 1, 1958; he began spinning records as teen growing up in the Bronx, performing live at area dances and block parties. By age 19, while attending technical school courses in electronics during the day, he was also spinning on the local disco circuit; over time, he developed a series of groundbreaking techniques including cutting (moving between tracks exactly on the beat), backspinning (manually turning records to repeat brief snippets of sound), and phasing quot br, br,
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