Comments on: Electro Boogie: Bboys B-ware!

By: Eclectro

Eclectro — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:10:26 +0000

I think the album ‘mite’ b
called ‘Breakdance You Can Do It’-i have a copy(& had one b4),but they both didn’t have inlays/posters. I got them both within last 10 years-tracks r all by ‘ALEX & THE CITY CREW’,apart from ‘New York City Breakers-MICHAEL HOLMAN’. Failing that could b a rental video from mid 80′s-’Breakdance You Can Do It’

By: Cold Crush

Cold Crush — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:05:14 +0000

Haha true…yeah, I guess swearing didn’t really come along until gangster rap, or at least Miami bass.

Haha true…those outfits look like they could be from a comedy segment these days! I’m pretty sure that whole record was something like that. I looked into it a bit more and apparently the music was pretty forgettable.

It’s a shame that anytime something original comes along it gets sanitised by the mainstream. Hip hop seems to have suffered the same fate, with a few notable exceptions!

By: narvolicious

narvolicious — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:32:48 +0000

Cool track …probably the first Electro-Funk piece I’ve heard with some actual cussing!

Wardrobe: IMHO that is almost purely West Coast…at least it totally reminds me of what happened to breakdancing here in L.A. when the mainstream media got a hold of it in late ’83. Suddenly it became “cool” to know how to breakdance, and every primetime news/tabloid/comedy just *had* to feature a breakdancing segment sometime in the show.

I even remember “How to Breakdance” kits in the grocery store (man I wish I had one of those …classic)! They featured very similar characters with easy-to-follow steps, and one kit even had a foldup cardboard “floor” to practice your moves on!

Yes…breakdancing’s gritty battling/aggressive origins were eventually snubbed by the glitz, glam and ignorance of the general public and domesticated into something tame and fun to do…like hopscotch. =)