Isaac's Favorite Cuts - Part III

I always loved DJ Richie Rich's cuts on 3rd Bass's album "Derelicts of Dialect." In particular, I think that the song "No Static At All" contains a segment that demonstrates some of the best album scratching in 1991. Check it out.


After 3rd Bass broke up, Rich and Pete Nice released an album called "Dust to Dust" under the name Prime Minister Pete Nice and Daddy Rich. The scratching certainly wasn't
lacking in this outing either. One thing about the really great deejays on these early/mid 90s records that always stood out to me is the pacing and control of their transform scratching. You could always tell who seemed like they were moving the fader (or switch) at random like an amateur (ahem, Eric B) and who actually knew what they were doing. Here we are 15 years later, and I still couldn't match the funk that Rich displays in this segment.

Isaac's Favorite Cuts - Part II

Besides being a battle veteran, Mista Sinista is also an incredible chorus cut king. One thing the X-men always seemed to do (maybe unintentionally) was that they used the same copies of records that they practiced on forever to record with. After you've cut the same section of record a hundred times, it starts to get this very pronounced hiss over the top of the samples. I've always felt that this hiss makes the actual samples being cut sound even better -- especially in a cut chorus. This sample comes from a song called "Remember" off of Sinista's "Street Credit" mixtape. And now...Sinista.

Isaac's Favorite Cuts - Part I

I'd like to highlight some segments from those folks that I
consider cutmasters. Today, I've got a snippet from the
end of the Outro track from Babu's "Duck Season
Volume 2." Rhettmatic sounds bleh at the beginning
of this track and Babu himself is also a little uninspiring
here. Fortunately, Melo-D wraps up the disc by straight
ripping it. Let's give Melo a listen.