The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash

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The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
File:The Official Adventures.jpg
Compilation album (DJ mix) by Grandmaster Flash
Released January 29, 2002
Genre Rap, electronic music
Length 78:00
Label Strut
STRUTCD 011
Producer Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash chronology
Flash Is Back
(1998)Flash Is Back1998
The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
(2002)
Essential Mix: Classic Edition
(2002)Essential Mix: Classic Edition2002
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[1]

The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash is a DJ mix album by Grandmaster Flash and was released in January 2002.[2] It is a mix album consisting of interview snippets, newly recorded old school hip hop mixes, live Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five segments and four other tracks by various artists that were popular in Flash's early DJ repertoire.

The enclosed 36-page colour booklet contains an extensive and detailed history of Grandmaster Flash, with many photos and interviews with the characters involved and was written by Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster (authors of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life).

Track listing

  1. Intro - "The Turntable Scientist" - 1:17
  2. Grandmaster Flash Turntable Mix - "Flash Tears The Roof Off" - 9:32
  3. "The Mexican" - Babe Ruth - 5:42
  4. "Grandmaster Flash Live At The T-Connection '79" - 0:23
  5. Grandmaster Flash Turntable Mix - "Flash Got More Bounce" - 12:04
  6. "Trans Europe Express" - Kraftwerk - 7:35
  7. Grandmaster Flash Interview - "Females" - 1:19
  8. "Do What You Gotta Do" - Eddie Drennon & The BBS Orchestra - 3:51
  9. Grandmaster Flash Turntable Mix - "Freestyle Mix" - 12:09
  10. "Grandmaster Flash Live at Disco Convention '82" - 0:28
  11. "Computer Games" - Yellow Magic Orchestra - 6:29
  12. Grandmaster Flash Interview - "Set It Off" - 1:11
  13. Grandmaster Flash Turntable Mix - "Get Off Your Horse & Jam!" - 15:13
  14. "Untitled" - 0:37

References

  1. Allmusic review
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