{"id":2187,"date":"2010-05-11T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T00:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2010-05-11T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T00:15:55","slug":"rhythm-moded-so-damn-tough-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm Mode:D &#8211; So Damn Tough LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I guess it&#8217;s safe to assume that people who read this blog know who ALTERN-8 are and who BIZARRE INC are, right??? Well, before either of those projects, Mark from Altern-8 and two guys from Bizarre Inc had a hip hop\/electro\/breakbeat project called Rhythm Mode:D.  Here&#8217;s two tracks off their 1989 LP &#8220;So Damn Tough&#8221;, which I just picked up this weekend while in Portland Oregon of all places (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/anthemrecordsinc.com\/\">Anthem Records \/Lodubs record store<\/a>). <br \/>\nI pitched these up to +8 when recording since that&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve been listening to them, good stuff at any speed though!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Rhythm-ModeD-So-Damn-Tough\/release\/130365\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/rhythm_mode_d.jpg\"><\/a><Br><br \/>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm Mode D - Bumrush The Sound.mp3\">Rhythm Mode D &#8211; Bumrush The Sound<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2187-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Mode%20D%20-%20Bumrush%20The%20Sound.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Mode%20D%20-%20Bumrush%20The%20Sound.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Mode%20D%20-%20Bumrush%20The%20Sound.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm Mode D - Turntable Doom.mp3\">Rhythm Mode D &#8211; Turntable Doom<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2187-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Mode%20D%20-%20Turntable%20Doom.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Mode%20D%20-%20Turntable%20Doom.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Rhythm%20Mode%20D%20-%20Turntable%20Doom.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I guess it&#8217;s safe to assume that people who read this blog know who ALTERN-8 are and who BIZARRE INC are, right??? Well, before either of those projects, Mark from Altern-8 and two guys from Bizarre Inc had a hip hop\/electro\/breakbeat project called Rhythm Mode:D. Here&#8217;s two tracks off their 1989 LP &#8220;So Damn&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=2187\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rhythm Mode:D &#8211; So Damn Tough LP<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-77"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}