& Rakim, KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions, Salt-N-Pepa, EPMD, MC Lyte, Biz Markie, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Redman, LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, Kid ’N Play, Nice & Smooth, Main Source, Heavy D & The Boyz, Organized Konfusion, Grand Puba, Big L and many, many others. However, within a few years the studio would secure its spot within the music industry as the go-to place to record and mix hip-hop, riding rap’s rising trajectory and siring essential recordings by a fleet of the era’s finest artists: Eric B. He quietly opened Power Play Studios in April 1980 on 30th Street, buying ads in the Village Voice to land his first bookings. Tony Arfi was a telephone technician/journeyman rock drummer ready to retire his sticks when he took a flyer on a space in an industrial section of his home borough, about a ten-minute drive from where he grew up in Astoria. Culturally and commercially, then still-grimy Gotham was hip-hop’s undisputed capital, and its recording epicenter during the most glowing of these golden years was a fittingly unpolished outpost in Long Island City, Queens called Power Play Studios. Them a nicely balanced 2 tracks.New York hip-hop’s classic ’80s-’90s years are exhaustively but rightly celebrated as a gilded age of creativity – a halcyon period of inspired competition and accelerated vocal, lyrical and technological progress that yielded some of the music’s most influential artists and recordings. The tracks are contrasting yet entwined, making

Spectrum is ‘Quinten’, which delves into the creative realms. ‘Powerplay’ is about mechanics, which comes through in the sounds. The result is a nice combination of my glitchy sounds and Kamara's mixing and layering techniques as a live techno performer.' - Ken Ishii 'It has been a great experience to work with Ken who we’ve always revered. I love their releases on Tronic etc and I instantly thought it would be interesting.

'The Kamara guys contacted me one day saying they were curious about collaborating with me. Teaming up with Dutch duo Kamara for the latest offering on Radio Slave’s Rekids Special Projects imprint, the trio deliver two fierce techno offerings, combining their individual skills and styles into a formiddable pair of tracks.

Japanese Techno Veteran Ken Ishii & Dutch duo Kamara join forces for ‘Powerplay’ on Rekids Special Projects.Īctive for well over two decades, Techno icon Ken Ishii has chalked up a commendable discography, consistently pushing the genre forward.

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