Artist	Song
Herbie Hancock	Rockit
from The Herbie Hancock Box (2004)
Incredible Bongo Band	Apache
from Bongo Rock (2006)
Afrika Bambaataa	Looking for the Perfect Beat
from Looking for the Perfect Beat 1980 -1985 (2005)
James Brown	Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (1970 Album Version) [Undubbed Unedited Mix]
from Sex Machine (1993)
Hashim	Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
from Cutting's Ultimate Freestyle Medleys, Vol. 1 (Albert "Latin Rascal" Cabrera & Rob "Razor" Kellman Remix) (1996)
Herman Kelly	Dance To The Drummer's Beat
from Booty Super Party Club Classics (1999)
The Jimmy Castor Bunch	It's Just Begun
from 16 Slabs of Funk (2002)
Bob James	Take Me to the Mardi Gras
from Two (2005)
Kool & the Gang	Open Sesame
from Funk Essentials: The Best of Kool and the Gang - 1969-1976 (1993)
Strafe	Set It Off (Vocal)
from "The Original" Set It Off - EP (2007)
ESG	UFO
from A South Bronx Story (2000)
Newcleus	Jam On It
from Destination: Earth - The Definitive Newcleus Recordings (2005)
Nairobi & The Awesome Foursome	Funky Soul Makossa
from Ultimate Dance Mega Hits (2005)
Cybotron	Clear
from Clear (2006)
West Street Mob	Break Dance-Electric Boogie
from The Sugar Hill Records Story (2009)
Kraftwerk	Numbers
from Computer World (2005)
Cameo	Rigor Mortis
from Cameo: Anthology (2002)
Jackson 5	Hum Along and Dance
from Anthology: Jackson 5 (2000)
The Isley Brothers	Get Into Something
from Get Into Something (1997)
Man Parrish	Hip Hop Bee Bop (Don't Stop)
from Hip Hop, Be Bop (1982)
Dynamix II	Give The DJ A Break
from Booty Super Party Club Classics (1999)
Jonzun Crew	Pack Jam (12" Remix)
from The Tommy Boy Story, Vol. 1 (2006)
Planet Patrol	Play At Your Own Risk (12" Vocal Version)
from The Tommy Boy Story, Vol. 1 (2006)
Art of Noise	Close (To the Edit)
from (Who's Afraid Of) The Art of Noise? (1984)
New Order	Confusion (Arthur Baker 12" Mix) [Edit]
from Singles (2005)
The Clash	The Magnificent Seven
from Clash On Broadway (2000)
Pretty Tony	Jam the Box
from Fix It In the Mix (2007)

Comment:

From German electronic pop to bass-heavy disco to raucous rap joints, these are the grooves that made the young hip-hop nation's break-dancers [i]move[/i]. With flattened cardboard boxes as buffers between body and concrete, old-school B-boys (and B-girls) did just that, adding their own styles to the street-dancing playbook. South Bronx block party: Someone pushes [i]play[/i] on a ghetto blaster, and out comes not rap, but Herbie Hancock's "Rockit." A circle forms, with the crowd falling into place to the track's electro-funk emissions; bodies pop, snaking slo-mo down to the ground, before bouncing back up. The DJ grins, turning up the volume on his guaranteed weapon: the mid-point breakdown in Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache," a funk-fortified jackhammer symphony of bongo-driven percussion. A chilled electronic siren blasts from the speakers, the crowd loses its mind, and Kraftwerk's "Numbers" once again proves itself part of hip-hop's official international language. From jazz-inflected soul to dance-dipped post-punk, we've got all the sounds of hip-hop's first foot soldiers.

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