THE CRIMINAL MINDS - GUILTY AS CHARGED - LTD ALBUM TCM
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CRIMINAL MINDS - GUILTY AS CHARGED MINI LP LTD EDITION (TCM RECORD, 1990 I am selling this extremely rare old school hip hop record from my personal collection. It has been said this record is the holy grail for collectors of early UK Hip Hop and with only 500 copy's released this would be a great addition to any old school hip hop collection. The record comes in a plain white paper sleeve. Side one of the record is in excellent condition, side two does have some light surface scratches near the last track. I have placed a reserve on this record because I can not let it go for next to nothing. I have read reports of this record going for £500. If you have any questions regarding this record I will be happy to answer them. I will also post the record Special Next Day Delivery for the UK.
I am happy to despatch worldwide, please contact me first for postage rate for your country.
I would like payment to be made within a week of selling if this would cause a problem please let me know and we will sort something out. This could be a once in a life time chance to own this piece of hip hop history. Tracklisting: A1 Urban Warfare A2 Just Check It A3 A Taste Of Armageddon B1 Police State B2 Section 12 Paragraph Zero B3 Rough Justice B4 Shout Outs Please see the information below to give you a little back ground to the Criminal Minds.This is the first, self-produced and self-released record from legendary UK Hip-Hop crew The Criminal Minds. From 1992 onwards, they found a considerable measure of success releasing breakbeat hardcore (tunes such as "The Criminal" and "Baptised By Dub" are as definitive of the Rave era as it's possible to get.) However, when they first started, they were very much a straight hip-hop outfit. It's not to difficult to see the leap they made from hip-hop to hardcore: the BPM's sped up, the breaks were pushed to the fore, the raps pushed back a little, the scratches and samples took precedence over the production. Yet, they never lost touch with their hip-hop roots either: later tracks such as "Toxic Culture" (from the "Joyrider" EP) show they were as much influenced by The Bomb Squad as they were by any of their other Hardcore contemporaries.
But the one record by the Criminal minds that everyone seems to covet is this EP. TCM were, at the time a nascent hip-hop crew based in Buckingham, just outside Milton Keynes. At their core were two DJ's, Spatts and Halo. This mini-LP was recorded on a 4-track in Spatt's bedroom, and was financed by DJ Halo selling his Technics decks and pulling in favours from friends. There must have been loads of people involved in supporting the band up to this point, most of them are thanked in a special track on the second side of the LP "shout outs", and there's dozens of them! Despite the fact it was recorded on comparatively primitive equipment, the tracks are incredibly powerful, and intricately constructed. The scratching is razor-sharp, the beats crisp, the rapping febrile and full of energy. "Guilty As Charged" (AFAIK) remains a "Holy Grail" for collectors of early UK hip-hop, as it functions as a perfect snapshot of the development of hip-hop in this country at the time. This is what it was like. 500 copies were pressed, with most being sold privately to friends. Few made it into shops.
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