WOEBOT

This totally classic cruncher featured both Pete Rock and DJ Premier on production. Never rated Pete Rock actually.

"Flavour of the Month" is the tune here.

Lovely, cheerful stuff, though sometimes the beats are so different from the dominant production style they're almost unlike Hip-Hop.

A great LP from start to finish. Like many of these records it benefits from the first wave of sample rediscovery. Samples tended to get less and less hooky as the once seemingly inexhaustible reserves of golden breaks became over-used and depleted.

Essential for "Regiments of the Steel".

The debut LP is remarkable for its catholic samples. Hall and Oates?!? Steely Dan?!? (...and to their cost) The Turtles?!? But even when they decided to fall into the slipstream and celebrate the funk they did it differently, hiring the JBs to play on this LP, to (surprisingly) wonderful effect.

Not a great record, but a fascinating, early intervention by this legend of Undie.

A great, consistently amazing LP.

Not brilliant but beyond Diamond's debut one of the best records to come from the DITC family.

Puerto-Rican Frankie. "Boriquas on da set" my fave here, but a consistently wicked set with an amazing guest-list.

Wicked Premier classic. Shades of the backpack.

The UK lot on Warner brothers on the Public Enemy tip.

Awesome twelve off the "Return of the Boom Bap" comeback LP. Another Primo joint. Can I say joint?

Always wanted a copy of this. Sometimes the rapping is a bit over-wrought. The best of this stuff strikes a balance between the rap and the instrumental. Undie's mistake was often to be too verbose.

Thanks to Oliver Craner to hipping me to this crisp, spectral, desperate LP. This was an augur of things to come, Mobb Deep were so young when they did this they practically belonged to a different generation.

Classic.

Love Premier's "Unbelievable" from this and the Mtume-sampling "Juicy" is great too.

Along with the later "My World", classic OC.

Organised Confusion definitely a cult thing.

Brilliant Busta Rhymes track. Love the piano on this.

A bit of a one-hit-wonder from the former Ultramagnetic MC, but what a hit.