Black Pegasus Music
Chicago Based Record Label (by Marc Davis)
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Common 33Hi Sneakers Designed By The Busy Bodies (Marc Davis & Pritt Kalsi)
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
New Unreleased Don Black Man 7 inch edited by Marc Davis & Tone B. Nimble
Sadar Bahar and Marc Davis Disco Beat Down EP Fatty Fatty Records
Sadar Bahar & Marc Davis Gospel Disco
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Saturday, June 12, 2021
Record Store Day Release! No I.D. Holy Grail 45 (7 inch)
Artist: No I.D. Producer: No I.D. Title: Throw Your Hands Up Cat: BPSS02 Label: Black Pegasus/Seven Sense Vinyl: 7inch, Yellow LTD EP Ex Producers: Marc Davis Art Work: Pritt Kalsi Video: Jay Nice & Pritt Kalsi Release: Record Store Day Saturday June 12th, 20201 |
Before No I.D. became vice president of Def Jam Records, producer of Jay Z’s 4:44 album, creator of hits for Common, Nas, Ghost face Killer, DMX, and Sade and a musical mentor to Kanye West, he was just Dion creating funky beats in the basement. Let’s flash back 30 years ago in Dion’s basement in the Pill Hill area on the south east side of Chicago. During this time his production gear was minimal and consisted of 1 technic turntable, a gemini mixer, a tape deck, and the legendary SP1200 sampler. Digging for disco, breaks, funk, Soul, Jazz, House, and rap records was a norm for him, along with childhood friends Frank Washington, Marc Davis and Leron Carson (RIP).
This tight circle of friends enabled No I.D. to create, and test out new beats. He would put them on cassette tapes and oftentimes give them to Marc to get feedback. As Time went on, these tapes accumulated and ended up in Marc’s shoeboxes, which throughout the years became damaged or lost. Luckily a few years ago Marc was able to retrieve some old shoe boxes with some of these lost tapes containing pure funky treasures!!
The unreleased yellow 7 inch Holy Grail is a 3 track E.P. on the SP1200 in No I.D.’s early years developing his signature chop sample style of sweet jazz over hard drums. The lead off track “Throw Your Hands Up” is pure hard-core jazz funk with a magnetic chorus. The B-side song “Invisible Theme” is a classic 12 bit gritty sound dressed with slick sequenced horn stabs. “Invisible Jazz” showcases a groovy baseline with an ear bopping clarinet that filters in and out super smoothly. This is the second follow up to the Black Pegasus’ Seven Sense Series that’s bound to be a record store day hit!
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Monday, May 14, 2018
Melanin Music 7 inch
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Common Charms Alarm 7 inch Holy Grail
Let's take it back 25 years ago on Chicago's south east side on 87th street where you have up and coming M.C. Common Sense recording his debut album with future hip hop music production legends Twilight Tone and No I.D.
Can I Borrow A Dollar the debut album heralded a new hardcore jazz sound with non orthodox lyrical imagery and officially putting Chicago on the rap music map! But just like most albums some songs make the final cut while others disappear into obscurity never to be heard.
Luckily Marc Davis, child hood friend of Common Sense now known as Common preserved one of the only recordings of the original Charms Alarm and the U.A.C. Free Style.
Now for the first time these holy Grail songs are debuting on Black Pegasus Records on a super limited edition colored 7inch and part of the newly formed Seven Sense Series. The new series will be unreleased demos from Common and his original music family and spear headed by Marc Davis and original U.A.C. member David "Moe" Grant.