Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra

Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra

"Wow!...you know this is me right here! Yo, can I borrow it?" - Lee

"Of course G, I trust you..." - SA

"...can I have it??..." - Lee

(gives off that laugh of his)

DJ Spanish Aztec had a lot of records. From time to time I borrowed a few singles but there was one record I just had to have if not AT LEAST dub from SA's stash and that was the Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra LP.  One of the illest Side A's and B's right here...a Hip Hop orchestra going through Roots & Gang Starr classics.  Starting with one of my all time favorite by The Roots ((Act Too, Love of My Life)).  

A shout out to the spirit of SA.  Had it not been for him, I may have never heard this record...not like this. This was one of those "wait til' you see what I got" phone calls when he checked his mail.  It was also the only LP from his stash that I borrowed and dubbed in its entirety from my turntable into my PC's sound card. Being kinda tech illiterate in 99', it took a lot of trial & error figuring out how to dub first into cassettes then finally into digital when my brother's God parents bought me my first PC a few years later.  A lot of questions no one seemed to have an answer for, Google searching, software downloads, and Radio Shack RCA cables until I finally rigged my set up to capture the sound I wanted off the needle... all the way to the end of the center plate.  

Even the silence of a vinyl record sounds like something. 

Check out this interview with Double G of the Dakah Symphonic Hip Hop Orchestra by Corry Banks for the BBoy Tech Report.  A great place to start to learn more about Dakah: click here

Here is a great video with Geoff 'Double G' Gallegos:

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