Rebel Beats
LABEL: Pan Trax
SERIES: Rebel Beats
GROUPING: 80's U.K. Bootleg Mixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1987
CATALOGUE NO: RBEAT1
RUNOUT GROOVES: *R-BEAT-1-A-1* MT (Side A) *R-BEAT-1-B-1* MT (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in December 1987 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
PAN TRAX ‘Rebel Beats’ (R-Beat 1)
Credited by some to Pan Trax although there’s no artist actually listed on the white label, this 0-99-99⅓-99-98⅔bpm bootleg mix-up of rare grooves over the top of Public Enemy’s ‘Rebel Without A Pause’ (itself based on the JBs’ ‘The Grunt’) has been about for several weeks but until recently was hard to find. The 0-99⅔bpm ‘Rebel Dub’ is literally the ‘Rebel Without A Pause’ instrumental with merely a rejigged intro, while the flip’s 99⅙-98⅚bpm ‘Justice’ and 97⅙-0bpm ‘Tough’ stark dubwise and beatbox instrumentals sound like someone’s demos.
SIDE A MIX: REBEL BEATS
MIXED BY: Uncredited
LENGTH: 05:49
GENRE: Funk/Soul/Hip Hop
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
Lowrell Simon - Love Massage (1981); Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause (1987); Foster Sylvers - Misdemeanor (1973); J.B.'s - Pass The Peas (1972); Johnny Hammond - Tell Me What To Do (1975); Ben E. King - Street Tough (1981); Roy Ayers - Everybody (1983); Blackbyrds - Do It, Fluid (1974)
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a megamix.
SIDE A:
REBEL DUB
SIDE B:
JUSTICE
TOUGH
