F & F Albums

Genre: Blues

Arthur Baker was together with the most visible in addition to widely sound the horn of the early hip-hop producers, masterminding breakthrough experiments with tape edits in addition to synthetic beats before crossing over to introduce the sculpture of remixing into the pop mainstream. He began his career what a club DJ in Boston in addition to landed his first production work at Emergency Records, debuting with Northend's "Happy Days." After relocating to New York in 1979, Baker quickly immersed himself in the nascent hip-hop scene; there he was recruited by the Salsoul label to helm a session for Joe Bataan that yielded the rap novelty "Rap-O-Clap-O." His stay in the Big Apple largely unsuccessful, he then returned to Boston, producing a handful of singles which went nowhere, together with them Glory's "Can You Guess What Groove This Is?" A move wager on to New York followed, at which time Baker swamped the staff of Tommy Boy Records, where he teamed with co-producer Shep P.. [See more]