Clubs picks of the week

Grandmaster Flash, On tourHip-hop's precise parentage may well be lost in the melting pot of 1970s New York, but it's fair to say that Grandmaster Flash was certainly there or thereabouts at the birth. Born Joseph Sadler in 1958, he's widely acknowledged to be the first DJ to transform the turntable into an instrument, pioneering techniques like scratching, sampling and punch phrasing which would become staples as the genre developed. A string of classics both with and without the Furious Five f...

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