That should read my ‘soon to be’ copy. Imagine my joy when I went onto social media and an advert popped up saying ‘De La Soul to re-release rare 1994 EP featuring A Tribe Called Quest, ‘Clear Lake Auditorium’ will officially drop in March, over 30 years after it was first recorded. – DJ Mag on FB
To call it a re-release is a stretch as originally, only a limited pressing of 500 copies were created and distributed, and only exclusively to selected DJs as part of the promotion of De La Soul’s third album, 1993’s ‘Buhloone Mindstate’. So for the non-exclusive DJs amoung us like myself, this is just a release, but a great one at that.
De La Soul formed in 1988 in the village of Amityville, Long Island. They appeared on the ‘scene’ in the most infectious way possible with ‘3 Feet High and Rising’, in what was at that time, a pop and family friendly dance time in the UK charts alongside what was the beginning of acid house. The album reached No.1 in the US charts and No.13 in the UK.
3 Feet High and Rising was and is “a hip hop masterpiece”.
Released on April 1, 1989, The radio liked ‘Me Myself and I’, as did pretty much everyone who heard it yet it only reached No.22 in the UK. It wasn’t the first single but certainly was for myself, the one that made me stop and listen, that was further cemented in December 11, 1989 with the release of ‘Magic Number’. I still to this day can’t hear the number 3 on its own without this song popping into my head. In the same way if someone say ‘six seconds’, my mind goes straight to ‘Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick’ with ‘The Show’. These songs just sit in your Psyche. Prior to that my ‘hip hop’ appreciation was limited to the ‘Beastie Boys’ and a couple of friends were mildly obsessive ‘Erik B. and Rakim’ on the back of the release of ‘Paid in Full” in 1997. ‘A Tribe called Quest’ didn’t release until 1990.
3 Feet High and Rising as said was 1989 followed by the follow-up second albun De La Soul is Dead in 1991. I do not personally remember this being pushed anywhere near as much on the radio which was the main source of discovery then. This was followed by the album Buhloon Mindstate in 1993.
As stated above, De La Soul to re-release rare 1994 EP, it will officially drop in March, over 30 years after it was first recorded.
Clear Lake Audiotorium is a six-track promo EP by De La Soul given out to A-list DJs in 1994, the catalog number is TB 1093 (Side A, “THIS SIDE” is TB 1093 A and Side B “OTHER SIDE” is TB 1093 B).
It was composed of four tracks from the group’s album Buhloone Mindstate and two non-album tracks -“Sh.Fe.Mc’s” featuring A Tribe Called Quest, and “Stix & Stonz” featuring The Fearless Four, Grandmaster Caz, and Prince Whipper Whip. – Wikipedia
Already ordered mine in limited “Sea Green” 12″ EP (preorder) A must for any Vinyl collection.
I cannot embed anything until March 7th, here is the link – Spotify