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Re:Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music by leoc on Thursday April 21, 2011 @03:56PM (#2472107)
Similar to the story about how DJ Kool Herc* discovered "Apache" (in the Michael Viner cover version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6UEtFuDHY ) and adopted it as his secret weapon, managing to hide its identity for quite a while.

* Or was it Grandmaster Flash? I wish I could find the TV documentary I remember this from.

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Re:Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music by jamesbritt on Friday April 22, 2011 @06:22PM (#2475629)
Or was it Grandmaster Flash? I wish I could find the TV documentary I remember this from.

Was this in the movie Scratch? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143861/

Only other source I can think of is NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1080761/

(Both of these are well worth watching. NY77 describes the amazing cultural events in NYC, 1997.)

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Re:Everything popular is wrong: Making it in electronic music by jamesbritt on Monday April 25, 2011 @11:45PM (#2483917)
Sorry; 1977, not 97
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