Mixtape Monday: BUST DE BEAT

HERC's high-bias allegiance to the TDK SA 90 is no secret. The tapes never gave him any problems or issues and they sounded as good as he could hope in his various boomboxes, car stereos and home stereo.  Plus The Price Club sold them in bulk/bricks at a sweet discount.  Still, HERC wasn't adverse to trying other tapes based on recommendations or sale prices.  One such tape, picked up on the cheap from Wilson Audio, HERC's favorite local high-end stereo store back in the day (and still open today), was the Denon HD8/100.  If you Google the tape, it is well-loved and cherished by tapeheads and audiophiles all over the world as one of the best sounding cassettes ever manufactured.  Who knew?

HERC surely didn't.  He remembers buying a couple cases, 20 tapes in total.  Today's mixtape is one of those tapes and like it says in the heading of this post, HERC titled the tape BUST DE BEAT.

There is no memory attached to this tape.  In hindsight, HERC can't help but wonder what he was thinking when selecting the tracks.  He would not have blurred the lines between the different ages of rap and given the time the tape was probably dubbed in late 1988 or early 1989, he would have included more of his favorites from the time such as Eric B & Rakim, EPMD, Eazy-E, N.W.A. and Kid N Play.  The tape comes off as a rare unplanned mix, with the A-side running out of time barely two minutes into a song.  And then HERC repeated the song from the beginning on the B-side. Here is that song:

"Rappin' Duke" is one of two songs from BUST DE BEAT currently not in Spotify's library.  The other song was featured in the movie and on the soundtrack album for Krush Groove and had it's own 12" single release as the soundtrack for the video below:

HERC would definitely do things differently if he was to make a tape like this today.  More than half the songs wouldn't make the cut but almost 30 years ago they must have been kinda sorta hot, right?  Check the playlist in full below before listening to the Spotify playlist at the bottom of this post.  Let HERC have it in the comments.  He deserves it. "Da-ha, da-ha."

		SIDE A		50:00
1981		The Adventures Of...On The Wheels Of Steel	Grandmaster Flash	07:10
1986		Brass Monkey	Beastie Boys	02:37
1988		Bring The Noise	Public Enemy	03:46
1988		Colors	Ice-T	04:26
1987		Go Cut Creator Go	LL Cool J	03:57
1987		Going Back To Cali	LL Cool J	04:10
1983		Haunted House Of Rock	Whodini	06:32
1984		Jam On It	Newcleus	06:24
1988		Parents Just Don't Understand	DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince	05:14
1986		Paul Revere	Beastie Boys	03:41
1984		Rappin' Duke	Rappin' Duke	02:03
		SIDE B		50:47
1984		Rappin' Duke	Rappin' Duke	06:35
1984		Rock Box	Run-DMC	05:31
1985		Roxanne, Roxanne	UTFO	05:11
1985		She's On It	Beastie Boys	03:32
1986		Square Dance Rap	Sir Mix-A-Lot	04:18
1988		Tougher Than Leather	Run-DMC	04:23
1985		Vice	Grandmaster & Melle Mel	05:04
1983		White Lines	Grandmaster & Melle Mel	07:27
1987		Wild Wild West	Kool Moe Dee	04:41
1987		You're Gonna Get Yours	Public Enemy	04:05