• Ready For Battle

Electro – the music the soul boys hated. There was a real generation divide in the early 80s: electro was either crap or perfection, and the two opinions could not be reconciled. Listening to 1983’s Ready For Battle, it’s hard to imagine this sunny, poppy, slightly anodyne mixture of chanting and diddly transistorised beats provoking such passions: it makes Sugarhill sound like Public Enemy and is about as threatening as a hug from your nan.

Rock Steady Crew was – and remains – a breakdancing troupe from The Bronx which also rapped and chanted not particularly well, yet managed some minor hits with (Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew and the self-explanatory Uprock. There’s a pointless version of War’s Me And Baby Brother, but It’s Just Begun bites Jimmy Castor’s It’s Just Begun years before The Jungle Brothers and works like a dream. There’s the inevitable use of the F-word in She’s Fresh, a cod-Latin tune with a nervous-sounding vocal from a tremulous Baby Love. Hardly revolutionary – yet this stuff changed the (musical) world, somehow.

Ready For Battle

With eight added mixes and two brief promo DVD clips, it’s all you could want, if not actually need. And it’s still fairly fresh.

- Picture Sleeve - Includes printed inner sleeve featuring photos and glossary of 62 hip hop terms from 1984. Side A Tracks: 1. Me And Baby Brother 3. Biblia de bosquejos y sermones apocalipsis pdf editor.

CD and DVD The first ever CD issue of the classic debut album by arguably the most recognisable B-Boy / Breakdancing acts ever. Originally released in 1984, Ready For Battle contains the smash hit single ‘(Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew’ – (UK #6) and follow-up electro B-Boy classics ‘Uprock’ and ‘She’s Fresh’. “Ready For Battle” was one of the first albums to be produced and co-written by the legendary producer Stephen Hague who went on to work with the Pet Shop Boys, Jimmy Somerville, Erasure, Holly Johnson, OMD and many, many more. This special 2-disc collector’s edition contains the full original 7 track album as well as all the associated single edit, remix and instrumental variants that were issued at the time, making this a definitive and comprehensive collection of all the recordings made by the Rock Steady Crew at the height of their music career.

Also includes extensive sleeve-notes and a full colour 16 page booklet. Also included is a DVD containing the 2 existing original promotional videos that showcase all the famous breakdance moves that the Rock Steady Crew were famous for – the first act to take breakdance crew battles off the streets of New York and into the commercial mainstream! Press:- “Early exponents of the ‘turtle’, ‘spider’ and ‘coffee grinder’, South Bronx breakdance posse Rock Steady Crew remain best known for their brief incarnation as a six-piece rap act.

(3/5.) Rupert Howe (Q Magazine, August 2012) “ Lino acrobatics were their forte, not droppin’ science, but this pop-electro is still fresh”. 3/5. (MOJO, August 2012). ME AND BABY BROTHER 3.

SHE’S FRESH 4. B-BOYS B-GIRLS 5. IT’S JUST BEGUN 6. (HEY YOU) THE ROCK STEADY CREW 7.

DIGITAL BOOGIE 8. (HEY YOU) THE ROCK STEADY CREW - 7” EDIT 9. (HEY YOU) THE ROCK STEADY CREW – INSTRUMENTAL 10. UPROCK – EXTENDED VERSION 11. UPROCK – 7” EDIT 12. UPROCK – INSTRUMENTAL 13.

SHE’S FRESH – EXTENDED REMIX 14. SHE’S FRESH – 7” REMIX EDIT 15. DIGITAL BOOGIE – REMIX DVD 1. (HEY YOU) THE ROCK STEADY CREW – 7” EDIT 2.

UPROCK – 7” EDIT PRODUCED BY STEPHEN HAGUE, EXCEPT.