New York '72 / Neuva York '72

by Lexington 144

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ancesthlm One serious record...Painting images and scenery with sounds and rythms...I sure hope for more like this..

True inspiration..Thank you Regal!!!

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Grab Bag Vol. 1 - 'Bundles of Beats', New York '72 / Neuva York '72, DJ REGAL - SPANISH HARLEM BREAKDOWN (PTs 2 & 3 MEDLEY / 115 BPM), Nipple Kinky b/w Van Eyke's After Dark - The Richard Sen Touch Ups!, Vaughn Bode's Stripp’d Universe ...A Cartoon Soundtrack Imagining..., Soul in "C" EP, The Time Past Remixes, Time Past, and 3 more. , and , .

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1.	Intro 01:32	buy track
2.	BROADWAY ELEGANT 04:47	buy track
3.	Gettin' Up 00:47	buy track
4.	EL MARKO IN MY POCKET 04:57	buy track
5.	THE 2's & 5's 04:34	buy track
6.	149TH ST. BREAKDOWN 02:17	buy track
7.	Audobon & 188th 01:04	buy track
8.	SPANISH HARLEM BREAKDOWN 05:00	buy track
9.	Heavy Static 00:47	buy track
10.	BALLAD OF BARBARA & EVA 62 04:05	buy track
11.	RED STEEL CANVAS 04:01	buy track
12.	Evolutionary... 01:09	buy track

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50 YEARS AGO ...

From the hands of time, Graffiti on the walls has been a constant, whether riling up the Romans, castigating the Carpathians or heckling the heretics... Graffiti has been around since the dawn of time.

In the New York City of the late 1960's and early '70s, Graffiti sprang up via a new outlet, a new code and a new sense of purpose... by kids as young as 9 or 10, to the teenagers just about legal enough to party & vote - to these young lords, getting their names up on walls and then onto trains, meant everything to them.

City-wide from The Bronx to Brooklyn, Queens to Manhattan and Staten Island, these warriors practiced their trade with ink & spray paint, hitting anywhere they could, as much as they could, just to show the world who they were... evolving the inherent vandalism into an artform that transcended their terrain, attracting and galvanising art collectors and community leaders alike, to form a bedrock of support, that ultimately took them out of the dark and dusty train yards and into the galleries of the more progressive minded curators.

But this staggering feat of urban creative evolution didn't come easy ... the early 1970s of New York, was a non-stop hustle & bustle of frightening intensity, replete with Police corruption, Welfare overload, Government bankruptcy, Tenement housing disrepair - all the while the daily disparate dangers pummelled it's citizens, with the Afro-American & Afro-Latin communities bearing the brunt of them.

With Gang warfare rife and playing it's part in the daily obstacles these wily pioneers faced, life was no joke for the kids living in the city, who's mission to 'get up', now had to navigate both the cruel streets above and the dark and dangerous tunnels below.

But these incredible kids didn't hide away, they didn't shirk from the dangers outside - they attacked this heated society head on. They created for themselves a culture that they made their own, with it's own rules, it's own rituals, it's own merits of glory... with literally nothing but the clothes on their back and the spraycans they managed to rack.

This then, with a soundtrack formed by the sounds of that time - Latin-Rock, Revolutionary Funk, Avant-Garde Jazz, the Hippies & the Folkies - this, is a dedication to the indomitable spirit of those kids - kids from all creeds and backgrounds, who kept going through the fiercest of flames - way back in that collective cauldron of a city, known as...New York '72.

PRODUCED & ARRANGED BY DJ REGAL
@djregaluk

Recorded & Mixed @ Studio 65, London
Mastered by Kingsway @ Earth Works Studio, Amsterdam
www.earthworksamsterdam.com

All Album Design & Layout by Blaze, Sydney
@opticintake.com

All Text Translation by Maffie Duran, Panama City.

℗ A REGAL JOINT
© 1972 Lexington144 Records

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released November 4, 2022

BIG LOVE & MANY THANKS TO:
My Family, Original FBV Crew, Shootz, Parker, Skinny Black, Chalky Rox, Molun, Toby, Melvin, Al T, Chaffey, Ruci & The Tribe, Fabian, P-Ski, Brian Not Brian, JT, Nick Faber, Snatch (PFB), Zaki Dee (TCA), Don (UA), Dust & Keis (BTP), Blaze, Ransom, Paz, Fdel, Katch, Mark Walton, Frenzie, Edseven, Dave Code, Weave, Walter, James Locksmith, Jimmy Rubin, Frank & Rusty (AGFA), Nickodemus, Maffie, Kingsway & Jah Rej

(In Memory Of Tom Sweeting - RIP)

DEDICATED TO ALL THE GRAFFITI WRITERS AROUND THE WORLD

DEDICADO A TODOS LOS ARTISTAS DE GRAFFITI DEL MUNDO

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Lexington 144 London, UK

Forging instrumental slices of Hip Hop from the spaces inbetween Jazz, Funk, Dub, Soundtracks & the Avant Garde. - this is a REGAL joint!

Formerly known for his work with Wiseguys, Bronx Dogs & as 'DJ Regal' on labels such as Wall Of Sound, Heavenly, Marble Bar & Unique.

Regal has launched into the future-past via his own label Lexington 144 Amsterdam in partnership with Earth Works Amsterdam ... more

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