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It's also my understanding that this album is essentially made up of songs that the Cut Chemist had the wax to and esentially no one else had any more, but that is just the rumor I had heard.

Now, for the review. Me, I think I'm a little young to REALLY enjoy this CD. I was 4-5 years old when these songs were originally released, and I was busy being a 4-5 year old kid on the other side of the country in Washington, not listening to Hip Hop from Connecticutt. So for the sake of my age and previous listening, this album gets a strike against it (for my tastes). Then comes the beats. This is a collection of the EARLY days of Rap, and a lot of the songs use the same breaks made popular in other Rap songs from the era, which for me gets a little tiring. Sure, it's groundbreaking for the era, but isn't that a Sugarhill Gang song that I just heard, re-hashed by Mr. Magic and friends?

So for personal reasons, I have to say I wasn't as impressed with this album as I was expecting to be. I was looking forward to some crazy songs that were groundbreaking and original from 1983 in Connecticutt, and I guess to some extent, I got them, but... Groundbreaking and Crazy for 1983 was kind of like the concept of putting 10 songs of music on a 5 1/4 inch shiney thing called a CD, too, and now I can record Hundreds of songs on that same Shiney thing, all from the comfort of my own home... 21 years later, things that were "groundbreaking" tend to seem less "groundbreaking" then they used to.

This album is great if you love the super-old-school-style and you want some obscure tracks from a small segment of the country during that era. If you're looking for something else, you're not going to find it here.

The Tri-State Hip Hop Circle is Complete
Congrats to Stone's Throw Records on their marvelous compilation! Any fan of the early days of Hip Hop, dating back to the days of the Suger Hill Gang, Fatback Band, and Afrika Bambaata will no doubt love this album. It really shows how Hip Hop all started in Connecticut and eventually slipped thru the cracks. Another lost treasure brought to the surface by Stone's Throw's Eothen Alapatt, who also executive produced the release of another lost album by a Connecticut native, Dooley O's Watch My Moves 1990, late last year. Keep up the good work and bravo!!!

Connecticut HIP HOP
The beats. The claps. The calls to "Come on" or "Get down" or "Check it out." The infectious vibrations, rumbles and urgent rhythmic raps. The references to pugilist poet Mohammed Ali. The bulging bass and trembling chords. The hyper hoots of "Ho-oh." The raw sound of pure early Hip Hop is as exhilarating and overwhelming as the recordings of young Elvis, or Billie Holiday on the radio, or Miles or Marvin Gaye at their most progressive, or any other genre you care to name. It's a sound which still packs immediacy, personality and a hearty party.