Win Grandmaster Flash Tickets

Hip-hop simply wouldn’t be anywhere without Saturday’s headliner at Kaluki, the one and only Grandmaster Flash, a true legend of the house music scene...

Sankeys welcomes a true legend of music.

This isn’t hyperbole, more simple fact. Whilst Kool Herc was the person who kick-started the music off, Flash was the first to really take the craft beyond the streets and establish it firmly as an art. He built the first DJ mixer, identified a little known turntable as the most reliable for what he intended to do with records (The legendary technics 1210) and set about transforming records into collages of sound.

Every artist, club, raver or person with even a passing interest in dance music culture owes him everything. Flash was the first to debut track DJing skills like mixing records behind his back or beneath table, kicking mixing faders with his feet. Flash's 1981 single "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on The Wheels of Steel" was the first record to exemplify Hip-Hop DJing skills, and with his group The Furious Five’s 1982 hit "The Message" was one of the first serious rap records. By 1981 the landmark "Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" was released. This single gave people the first recorded example of Flash's wizardry on the turntables, and it was the first record of its kind. This is going to be special!

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Name Flash's 1981 single?

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