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The breakbeats from “Wild Style” and the story of how they came to be re-edited by Kenny Dope packaged in a 28 page hardcover book with seven 7” singles containing the fabled breaks from the legendary Charlie Ahearn film.
”When it comes to “Wild Style”, it’s a movie that I have loved since
I was a kid, because of what it stood for and how it showed real
hip-hop culture to the world. As I became a producer in the late
1980s and into the 90s, when I listened close to the breakbeats that
the DJs used in the film, I could tell that they were done in a
studio....but I never knew the actual story behind them. It was
always a mysterious thing, and no one seemed to know
much about it.”
- Kenny Dope
“Wild Style Breakbeats” not only features a 7” single including each of the
breaks from the film, it also tells the story of those breakbeats in words and
pictures. The 14 page hardcover book is written by Brian Coleman with
reminiscences from Charlie Ahearn, DJ GrandWizzard Theodore, Fab 5
Freddie, Leonardo “Lenny Ferrari” Ferraro, Chris Stein and many more.
“We didn’t want to be dependent on the hit of the month but, more
importantly, I was afraid of (filming) MCs rhyming off a pile of
records that I wouldn’t be able to clear”
- “Wildstyle” director Charlie Ahearn |
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