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West coast hip hop starts making big waves in 1984. I'm sure I heard somewhere it was known as techno or techno-rap? the label Unknown set up in 1984 is called Techno Hop records. At this time West Coast hip hop really was heavier on the electro and would be influential on Florida and the development of Bass Music over there

The Unknown DJ (originally from Detroit) and DJ Yella were mentored by DJ, promotor, and club owner Alonzo 'Lonzo' Williams Lonzo had a mobile DJ crew called Disco Construction that performed around Compton. In 1979 Lonzo opened a club in Compton called Eve After Dark, it was here where a young Dr Dre is brought in to try out. From his Disco Construction DJ's Lonzo forms the Wreckin' Cru. The Unknown DJ goes off to do his own thing and Lonzo adds the braggadocios prefix World Class to the Wreckin Cru after they begin to record music. The first line-up of The World Class Wreckin' Cru was Lonzo, DJ Yella, Dr Dre, and emcee Cli-N-Tel

The Unknown DJ - 808 Beats the follow up. Unknown declaring he's the master not of playing guitar or a drum kit but the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer drum machine

The World Class Wreckin Cru's Surgery Lonzo's cru's second record

Dr Dre worked with Arabian Prince outside Lonzo and the Wreckin Cru. Arabian Prince was in an early version of NWA and features on their first release Panic Zone. I can't say if Dr Dre has anything to do with this track Strange Life but he's certainly on 1985's Innovative Life

Arabian Prince - Strange Life

Unknown & Three D - Beatronic stunning bit of early electro and the first release on Unknown's Techno Hop label

Dr. Dre and Unknown - Scratchin' 100 Speakers back to the scratching, you can hear the D.St influence

Kid Frost T.M.S. - Rough Cut (Instrumental) with scratches by Yella and exec produced by David Storrs (I'll do a bit on him later in the year.) Kid Frost releases the classic Terminator in 1985

Yella - Kru Groove the first World Class Wreckin Cru release. The lead track is Slice which is a copy of Run DMC's Sucker MCs

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