Name: Think / Atom
Brand: Main Source

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRB7186

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-12-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

7119691268675

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Total Cap

1 / 7" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Main Source

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Mr Bongo

A year before Wild Pitch Records properly introduced us to the trio of Queens native Large Professor and Toronto's Sir Scratch and K-Cut, the soon-to-be-legendary group self-released their own debut single. Dropping on Actual Records, the 12" of Think and Atom was soon a sought after rarity, with scarce originals still fetching upwards of three figures. On it, they only hint at the greatness to come, while simultaneously showing that they'd already mastered the three-minute rap single this is concise brilliance with no flab whatsoever.

Engineered by the late, esteemed Paul C, Think is a study in how to turn well-worn samples into something new. The combination of several James Brown snatches, along with bits lifted from Lyn Collins and Jimmy Castor Bunch, could have been tired and almost parodic by 1989, but instead the group weave something interesting from old fabric.

Atom is arguably even better, built around a brace of elements from Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's 1967 duet Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl. On it, Large Pro gives the first real hints that he'll not just be a super-producer, but a committed MC to watch. Mixing threats with humour, positivity with braggadocio, it's a calling card performance on a track that could have still sat comfortably on 1991's Breaking Atoms album.

Heavily bootlegged, this is the first official double-sided 7" release bringing together both these foundational cuts.

Think / Atom

Music GB