DJ Ves 120 Cutting up the OG MF 911 Test Presses off the "The Rukus" EP

Steady Serv "You Know The Time" EP BP-06

Once again the mighty Black Pegasus dusts off a holy grail that has been buried since 1994 in the Chicago hip hop demo shrine. This relic is the immortal "You Know the Time" EP by Chicago legend Steady Serv!! Back in the summer of 1994 the craft-matic lyricist, Stedy Serv, along with legendary producer Andy C. (BSTC, All Natural, Mary J. Blige Fame) and Superman DJ, Tone B. Nimble (All Natural Fame) whipped up a timeless piece of funky Hip Hop at United Technique Studios. This session manifested into a 3 track demo that was championed by DJ Kevin Beacham on his underground hip hop show "Time Travel Radio" on 89.3 FM WNUR and was cetified "Classic". This 3 song demo casette tape defined "boom bap" before it was "boom bap"!! Lyricist Steady Serv was dropping metaphoric inteligent funky flows over Andy C.'s soulful samples and hard drums on the sweet "life Of Luxury". The razor sharp scratch chorus from Gang Starr on the dark and errie "Better Safe Then Sorry" is the epitomie of hip hop during this time. last but not least though and self titled track "You Know The Time" is a pure monster anthem!! Andy C's bass line chop from Bruce Lee's movie sound track "Enter The Dragon" will have you jumping in a mosh pit!! The track was so powerful there was a limited Test Press run of 25 copies of "You Know the Time" song given to select DJs in 94 that has since been lost into obscurity. Black Pegasus is proud to announce the official release of "You Know The Time" EP, which includes for the first time all the 3 songs on vinyl and OG instrumentals for the self titled "You Know The Time'. This will be a very limited edition release!! Pre-Orders will be accepted very soon, stay tune!! Japan/Germany/USA TBA 1) You Know The Time (Street edit) 2) You Know The Time (Radio edit) 3) You Know The Time (Radio Instrumental) 4) Life Of Luxury (Street edit) 5) Better Safe Then Sorry (Street edit) 6) You Know The Time (Street Instrumental)

MF 911 's "Come On" and "The Rukus" from the "Rukus" EP

After Pressing plant delays and distribution staff changes the MF 911 "The Ruckus" EP will be dropping in February 2012!

Ant "Mad Scientist king" live, Ced-Rat, Mainy Main, Tim The Terrible are
MF 911

So In the meantime and between time check the funky boom baper "Come On" produced by Track Master 30/30 (WU Tang Fame)

and "The Rukus" produced by Mega Force's own Ced-Rat as he smashes it dolo style!!

VES 120 TURN STYLES VOL 2 BPCD-02

DJ, Emcee, producer,graphics designer, Ves 120 comes rare and hard with TurnStyles Vol 2, a perfect blend of underground and rare indie cuts swirled together with sweet blends and precision cutting!! Throw back joynts from the back packer days of Kanye's produced "City to City" with Chicago legend Grav, featuring Lil Ray & Al Tariq (Beat Nuts ), to the underground burner, MoleMan's Vocabulary Spill Feat. Mass Hysteria, to Kids in the Halls Hoes Clothes and Liquor show cases rare Chicago bangers!! This is super strong 26 tracks of underground solid hip hop music!!

DJ MARC DAVIS

Chicago veteran record collector, DJ, producer and owner of independent record label Black Pegasus Music has been involved in the music industry for over two decades. Marc first got his start as an admirer of the DJ culture in the early 80’s listening and watching neighborhood legends Chico Frye, Steve “Silk” Hurley, and Eric “E.T.” Taylor. This gave Marc the confidence to get his own set of turntables and start shopping for records at Imports and Loop Record’s. Marc became a heavyweight in collecting records purchasing soulful disco, electronica, Jazz, rare funk, afro beat, latin and Brazilian records. This is right around the time Marc linked up with child hood friend Dion Wilson pka NO ID (JayZ, Common, Kanye West Fame) and started practicing his DJ skills and getting his first look into music production. No ID schooled Marc in the art of sampling rare grooves and obscure drum breaks.

Since then Marc has been off to the races recording on various record labels such as Robbins Entertainment/BMG (Savior), Oxygen Music Works/Pinacle (Toot Toot), Skint Records/Sony (Toot Toot), Launch Pad/Topplers (I am the One). He has recorded with a slew of artists from Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic/Dr. Octagon fame) to Roz Nash of Groove Collective. His music has been remixed by the likes of Kurtis Mantronix, Ashley Beedle’s Xpress 3, Fat Boy slim, to Albert Cabrera’s Latin Rascals.

As a mobile DJ, Marc has been able to perform gigs both domestically and internationally. He has played in Cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angelos , London, Nottingham, Wales, Birmingham, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Zurich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm, Gotenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, and others.

In 2006 Marc created Black Pegasus record label. Black Pegasus is an eclectic imprint releasing underground hip hop, soulful disco, afro & brazilian beats. The first release was a self produced funky House single Trust In Me/Mechanical Melody. The record was well received in European and USA clubs but because of lack luster distribution the potential was not maximized.

In 2010 Marc closed a worldwide distribution deal with Cross Talk and began releasing underground hip hop through Black Pegasus. The next 4 releases included UltraMagnetic Foundation "Ultra Laboratory Stories LP," East Of The Rock "Galaxy Rays Ep", Fully G "There She Goes Again "single, MF 911 "The Ruckus EP"

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UltraMagnetic MC's performing live in New Jersey @ the Asbury Convention Hall

UltraMagnetic MC's performing October 1st 2011 @ the Asbury Park Convention Hall with a standing crowd only of 55 million 8 thousand 9!!!!!

DJ Marc Davis, Elvis Leon, & Buddy Finch Abstract Funk @ ikodu Lounge Sat. October 22nd

Abstract Funk @ ikodu Lounge 2130 S. Wentworth (China Town)

Abstract Disco-Jazz-Brazilian-Afro Beat-World Music Beat by DJ's Marc Davis, Elvis Leon & Buddy Finch 9pm-3am, $5.00 cover, ladies free B4 11, drink Specials!!

ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S

Before forming as a hip hop group, Ultramagnetic MCs members Cedric "Ced-Gee" Miller, "Kool" Keith Thornton, DJ Moe Love (Maurice Smith), and TR Love (Trevor Randolph) from The Bronx, New York were break dancers for the New York City Breakers and People's Choice crews.[6] They recorded a demo, "Space Groove", in 1984 and released their first single "To Give You Love" in 1986.[6] Other singles, including "Space Groove" and "Something Else", became popular at block parties and earned the group notice in the underground music scene, eventually leading to the group's signing with dance-oriented record label Next Plateau Records.[7]
The group made a stylistic breakthrough with their subsequent 1986 single "Ego Trippin'". The song boasted dense, minimalist production, featuring synthesizer riffs and a drum sample from Melvin Bliss' "Synthetic Substitution", and erratic lyricism by Ced-Gee and Kool Keith.[6] The group's 1987 single "Funky" showcased Ced-Gee expanding on his production style, incorporating a piano sample from "Woman to Woman" by Joe Cocker.[6] Before the release of Critical Beatdown, he contributed to production on albums such as Antoinette's Who's The Boss (1989), Criminal Minded (1987) by Boogie Down Productions.[6]

The dynamic, choppy production on Critical Beatdown was handled primarily by Ced-Gee, who used a E-mu SP-1200 sampler.[3] His sampling of early recordings by James Brown, particularly their guitar and vocal parts, added to the music's abrasive, funk-oriented sound and exemplified the growing popularity of such sampling sources in hip hop at the time.[3] In the second edition of The Rough Guide to Hip Hop (2005), music journalist Peter Shapiro notes its music's energy as reminiscent of The Cold Crush Brothers and writes of the album's musical significance, "It may have been a stunning explosion of early sampling technology, but Critical Beatdown remains a devstating album even in an age of 32-bit samplers and RAM-intensive sound-editing software."[8] He also views that the technological limitations of using such a sampler added to the album's style, making the music "rawer, more immediate, and more febrile, like a raw nerve."[3] Hip hop production team The Bomb Squad has cited the album as a major influence on their production for Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.[8] Shapiro dubs it one of the greatest hip hop albums and comments on its musical legacy, "Recorded at a time before 'street' and 'experimental' were mutually exclusive terms, it ushered in hip-hop's sampladelic golden age and laid the foundation for several generations of underground rap."[2]
Kool Keith's and Ced-Gee's lyrics on the album are characterized by abstract braggadocio,[9] stream-of-consciousness narrative style,[10] and psuedoscientific terminology.[11] The Anthology of Rap, published by Yale University Press, makes note of such terminology in Ced-Gee's lyricism on the album's 1986 single "Ego Trippin'", particularly the lines "Usin' frequencies and data, I am approximate / Leaving revolutions turning, emerging chemistry / With the precise implications, achieved adversively".[11] Kool Keith's rhymes are manic and expressed in a staccato pace.[11] His lyrics on "Ego Trappin'" also criticize the musical aesthetic of old school hip hop artists at the time: "They use the simple back and forth, the same old rhythm / That a baby can pick up and join right with them / But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copasetic / Using nursery terms, at least not poetic".[11]

Allmusic editor Stanton Swihart praised the album's production as "forward-looking" and called it "an undeniable hip-hop classic [...] one of the finest rap albums from the mid- to late-'80s 'new school' in hip-hop."[12] He noted the "lyrical invention" of Kool Keith's and Ced-Gee's respective styles, adding that "Somewhere in the nexus between the two stylistic extremes, brilliant music emanated. Critical Beatdown maintains all its sharpness and every ounce of its power, and it has not aged one second since 1988."[12] Trouser Press journalist Jeff Chang called it "an amazing debut" and complimented Kool Keith's "shifty rhyme patterns", while writing that Ced-Gee "pushes sampling technology to its early limits, providing sonics that are less bassy and more breakbeat heavy than most of their contemporaries."[21] Pitchfork Media's Alex Linhardt called it "a flawless album—one that stands tall today as one of Golden Age's most ageless," lauding Kool Keith's "lyrical ingenuity" and citing Ced-Gee as "the source of the album's most insane, digitalk-quantum gibberish, spouting lines [...] [T]hey should be studied in seminars alongside general relativity."[16] Linhardt attributed its music's "surging psychosis" to DJ Moe Love's turntablism and Ced-Gee's dense funk sampling, particularly his arrangement of vocal samples, writing that they "are ingrained in the very fabric of the beat, concealed and crippled amidst the relentlessly fuzzing bass. And like most great rap albums, many of them come from the patron saint of yelps, James Brown, and flurry and flux with such abstraction and chaos that they make the beats feel deceptively fast-paced."[16]
Melody Maker stated in a retrospective review, "full of scratch-tastic heavy beat, gold plated hip hop which manages to combine the minimalist ground-breaking Sugar Hill sounds with the show-no-mercy aural assault of the then-emerging Public Enemy."[14] NME gave it a nine out of 10 rating and called it "a bona fide classic."[15] Sputnikmusic's Louis Arp noted the group's sound as "developed solely around the sampler" and stated, "Critical Beatdown's notoriety as one of hip-hop's first copyright offenders is more than slightly impressive. The album unashamedly nicks from the common James Brown staples and then-popular drum breaks like Melvin Bliss' 'Synthetic Substitution' [...] Those grooves, the lyrics and the all around unique feel of the album make for some innovating hip-hop."[20] Arp commented that the album "marks a sign of hip-hop's early burgeoning creative maturity" and praised Ced-Gee's "method of chopping up samples, rather than simply looping them like most of his contemporaries did, essentially changed the way the producer approached the hip-hop beat," adding that "One could go so far to call these tracks as genre defining."[20] Rolling Stone writer Peter Relic gave the album four out of five stars in a June 2004 review, citing it as the group's "quintessential release."[22] Writing in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), journalist Kembrew McLeod gave Critical Beatdown four-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a bona fide classic of hip-hop's 'golden age' of the late '80s and early '90s, an album that was mostly ignored at the time but whose reputation has grown exponentially in the years since."[17]

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums

Critical Beatdown ◄ (13 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1988

Funk Your Head Up ◄ (6 versions) PolyGram 1992

The Four Horsemen ◄ (9 versions) Wild Pitch Records 1993

The Basement Tapes 1984-1990 ◄ (2 versions) Tuff City 1994

New York What Is Funky ◄ (2 versions) Ol' Skool Flava 1996

Mo Love's Basement Tapes ◄ (2 versions) Ol' Skool Flava 1996

The B-Sides Companion ◄ (3 versions) Next Plateau Entertainment 1997

Pimp Fiction Spoiled Brat Entertainment 1997

Smack My Bitch Up ◄ (2 versions) Tuff City 1998

The Best Kept Secret ◄ (2 versions) DMAFT Records 2007

Ultra Laboratory Stories ◄ (2 versions) Black Pegasus 2011

Singles & EPs

To Give You Love / Make You Shake ◄ (2 versions) Diamond International 1986

Ego Tripping / Funky Potion ◄ (4 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1986

Traveling At The Speed Of Thought / M.C.'s Ultra (Part II) ◄ (8 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1987

Funky / Mentally Mad ◄ (3 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1987

Watch Me Now / Feelin' It ◄ (4 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1988

Ease Back / Kool Keith Housing Things ◄ (3 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1988

Critical Beatdown (Album Sampler) (12", Promo) FFRR 1988

Give The Drummer Some / Moe Luv's Theme ◄ (6 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1989

Traveling At The Speed Of Thought / A Chorus Line ◄ (3 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1989

Make It Happen / Chorus Line (Pt. 2) ◄ (5 versions) Mercury 1991

Poppa Large ◄ (3 versions) Mercury 1992

Two Brothers With Checks (San Francisco, Harvey) ◄ (4 versions) Wild Pitch Records 1993

Raise It Up / The Saga Of Dandy, The Devil And Day ◄ (5 versions) Wild Pitch Records 1993

Watch Your Back (12") Tuff City



Ultramagnetic MC's Featuring Kool Keith - I'm F**kin' Flippin' (12") Tuff City 1994

Bait (7", W/Lbl) Roadrunner Records 1997

Make It Rain (12") OMW (Oxygen Music Works) 2001

Mechanism Nice (Born Twice) / Nottz (12") DMAFT Records 2006

Chilling W/ Chuck Chill Out (10", S/Sided, RE) Dick Charles Recording INC. 2010

ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S

MF 911 THE RUKUS EP INTERVIEW