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not when its some rare shit like this - where else you gonna get it?moves wrote:buyin radio rips from someone who wasnt the dj that actually mixed em , seems like a weird move.
good looks, appreesh. i may email him first, see what's what.strategy786 wrote:I know this Apollo cat. I used to work with him at another record store years ago.
From what I remember he's got a pretty low-tech operation, and he's kind of an odd character out of the old school NY dance scene.
Its my first time seeing that site. Its pretty terrible (like a time warp), and some of his stuff is just plain useless. But the dude has a lot of rare, legit recordings. I don't know if its all listed on the site and if he is still labeling everything by hand, but I know you can get some real old school rarities from him particularly in the mixtapes and recordings or radio shows.
I can't 100% vouch for him, as I have not seen him in about 8 years, but the guy is so obsessed with his old school dance music fetishes, that I know he would not stiff anyone who orders from his beloved collection.
Yep, indeed, Galv. I know who Papa Wheelie is, I've touched base with him in the past, but not in at least 6 years. Though I used to have him on my Last.fm friends. I'm familiar that he's like the go-to "guru" of Bass history/trivia. But he's sort of dropped out, I know he was all into Italo-Disco. But he seems to know music, generally pretty well. Funny, I went to middle school in Lauderdale Lakes, right near where Jam Pony hails from. I just could never get into their shit. It's an interesting niche, but not for me. They're still around in some facet. I saw someone with a JPE sticker on their truck, maybe 2 years ago, and like two days later, picked up a local Lauderdale pirate station bumping some Jam Pony. I may order from that dude at Apollo Jams, if he sounds legit in email correspondence.Galvatron78 wrote:They are hard to come by man, i knew one person on Soulseek that had some DJ Laz tapes and he goes by the name of PapaWheelie. We used to frequent an ol' school Miami Bass site. He had (or so he claimed) to have so many old school rarities but never upped them while everyone else was upping good tapes from back in the day. All i have in abundance from back in the day are Jam Pony tapes my earliest one is from like 84'. Personally i want some SugarHill Express tapes.
It was interesting, yeah... I didn't keep up with the Bass scene post-88', got way into the sounds of the Golden Era, myself, though I'm sure there was some decent shit at that time. In 87-88 the music had really just come into it's own, in what were still the formative years of Miami Bass, not that I'm nearly an expert. But, if you went to high school down here at that period of time, it was unavoidable, and was just a very cool thing to experience. The style of dress, music, car/car stereo culture, Miami really did have it's own thing going on. Lights under the cars, Basslines on the windows, all patently South Florida. Sick programming, insanely fast cutting, boomin' systems. Good times...fatboybrandon wrote:I remember going down to Miami and West Palm Beach Florida for the first and only time in '93, the Hip Hop scene and bass sound there was interesting coming from New York. I went to a show with Miami bass artists and Redman on his tour for Whut Thee Album, both at the same venue.
