Media Condition: Mint (M)

Sleeve Condition: Generic

Notes:

Side A is a bootleg from a show at Bronx River Centre featuring [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/21715-Grandmaster-Flash]Flash[/url] manually operating a drum machine while [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/70351-Furious-Five-The]The Furious Five[/url] rhyme over the top. It was released without [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/21715-Grandmaster-Flash]Flash’s[/url] knowledge or permission.

Side A is a “Tactic Mark Production”.

Side B is a pause-tape cut-up track, supposedly recorded by [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/17531-Afrika-Bambaataa]Afrika Bambaataa[/url], [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/22915-Afrika-Islam]Afrika Islam[/url], and [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/41233-Jazzy-Jay]Jazzy Jay[/url].

Side B is a “Turn On My Light Production”.

This version is an unofficial reissue of [url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Flash-It-To-The-Beat-Fusion-Beats-Vol2/release/1441253]the 1982 pressing with green labels[/url]. Although otherwise identical, it can be distinguished by the runout etchings, which are variants of the label catalog number where as on the [url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Flash-It-To-The-Beat-Fusion-Beats-Vol2/release/1441253]other version[/url], only the track titles are etched into the vinyl of the runout grooves.

A. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – Flash It To The Beat 8:48
B. Various – Fusion Beats Vol. 2 4:43

Matrix / Runout BM-001-A
Matrix / Runout BM-001-B

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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / Various – Flash It To The Beat / Fusion Beats Vol. 2 (12″) (Mint (M))