The Bootleg Megamix Archive

LABEL: Sound Makers
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1985
CATALOGUE NO: TTED3014
RUNOUT GROOVES: TDE3014A (Side A) TDE3014B (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: This was played on Mike Allen's Hip Hop Radio Show in September 1985 so it must have been released some time before then

WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
DOCTOR FUNNKENSTEIN and D.J. CASH MONEY: ‘Scratchin’ To The Funk’ (US Sound Makers Records TTED-3014)
A clue’s in the title, this exciting 107bpm wild and woolly demonstration of DJ scratching cuts up Trouble Funk’s ‘Pump Me Up’ and more of their TTED material (105½-107bpm Part II flip uses live tracks including ‘Drop The Bomb’). The first go go scratch?

WHAT D.J. CASH MONEY HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE (taken from a Facebook post by Cash Money in November 2023):
The year was 1985..I was at this studio called Virtue Studios in Philadelphia doing some scratches for an artist named Kydd Fresh aka Michael Elliot...Well a guy named Max Kid walked into the studio and said he was the manager of the group Trouble Funk...He had a pile of records & test pressing and asked if I could do a mix cutting up these records...I said sure but how much are you paying me? So we agreed on a price and I let them record me cutting up these Trouble Funk & Chuck Brown records...This was done in all one take...Years later this record became a huge success for early hip hop...Speaking to Big Tony of Trouble Funk Big Tony's trouble funk page, he knew nothing about this record...So we found out that his manager was bootlegging their records without them knowing...This Scratchin' To The Funk record became so popular that Public Enemy sampled it in the beginning of the song 'Fight The Power'. Everyone thought that was Terminator X doing those scratches but it was actually me...Uh-Huh!! That song was in the SPIKE LEE movie 'Do The Right Thing' and was used as the beginning of Russell Simmons 'Def Comedy Jam' T.V. show