Ouch. I remember hearing "Beat Bop" for the first time and being overwhelmed by the production, the vocal interplay, the crazy echo effect on Rammellzee's voice, and the fact that it was 10 minutes long and never let up. Soon after, I snagged (er, downloaded?) the Death Comet Crew jam that came out on Troubleman Unlimited and that threw me for a huge loop. It was such a noisy and free variant on hip-hop production and the beats were done on such primitive gear so early in hip-hop history that it just felt like this primordial soup. Anyway, huge loss.
