Category: DJ Kool Herc
-
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Hip-hop history, stingray sounds, breath-powered prosthetics and more from around the web Sounds from Stingrays Recorded for the First Time A recent study has reversed the commonly held belief that stingrays are silent. For the first time, the creatures’ sounds were captured in a video depicting two mangrove whiprays and a cowtail stingray making […]
-
“The Birth of Hip Hop” Online Auction – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] On 11 August 1973 an 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc (aka Clive Campbell) performed at his sister Cindy Campbell’s back-to-school party in the rec room of their apartment building located at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the South Bronx. That event—where Herc isolated portions of funk tracks, switching between one record and the other (emphasizing the […]