Scratchin' To The Funk
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 IN NOVEMBER 1985:
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:
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 walk 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 so I let them record me cutting up these Trouble Funk & Chuck Brown records...This was done in all one take
SIDE A: SCRATCHIN' TO THE FUNK Part I
MIXED BY: Doctor Funnkenstein & D.J. Cash Money
LENGTH: 09:46
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY THAT ARE BEING CUT UP:
Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up (1980)
SIDE B: SCRATCHIN' TO THE FUNK Part II
MIXED BY: Doctor Funnkenstein & D.J. Cash Money
LENGTH: 12:03
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY THAT ARE BEING CUT UP:
Trouble Funk - Drop The Bomb (1981); Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - We Need Some Money (Bout Money) (1984)
