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The A Side:
Supersonic (Vocal/Remix) 6:45
The B Side:
Supersonic (Vocal/With Intro) 3:50
Supersonic (Instrumental) 3:20
The Brief:
J.J. Fad were MC J.B. (Juana Burns), Baby-D (Dania Birks), and Sassy C. (Michelle Franklin). They were one of the original Ruthless Records acts signed by Eazy-E and were the first female rap group to earn a Grammy nomination and have a record reach platinum status.
The Billboard Charts:
| Chart | Debuted | Debut Pos. | Peak Pos. | Wks on Chart |
| Hot 100 | 4/23/88 | 78 | 30 | 22 |
| Hot Black Singles | 5/28/88 | 22 | 14 | |
| Hot Dance/Disco | 5/28/88 | 10 | 8 |
The Source:
Label: Dream Team Records
Catalog#: PR 2296
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 1/3 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1988
The Equipment:
Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable
Audio Technica AT440MLa Phono Cartridge
Yamaha RX-Z1 A/V Receiver
Sony PCM-R300 DAT Deck
Turtle Beach Catalina sound card
Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Scanner
Spin Clean Record Washer MKII
The Software:
Cool Edit Pro
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
Microsoft ICE
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Thank you for this piece of history!
You’re welcome
Rap was never on top of my list when it comes to favourite genres of pop.
However, there were a few rap records that were essential in the 80s!
Rapper’s Delight
The Message
White Lines
Walk This Way
I Need Love
Push It
Me So Horny (hehehehehe) and this!
Bought this 12″ and so fascinated with the speed they were rapping, and that long rattling near the end. AMAZING!
Thanks Richie!
with reference to the Grammy noms, I would’ve thought it was Salt N Pepa! So JJ Fad pipped them to it?
Well, this is gonna be a rappy week so, grab your Kangol and your Adidas and climb on board! Sorry, no LL or Run-DMC this week though.
Ur stuff is always of the 80s… and hell i love that decade
I saw u offered some Midnight Star, don’t u have “Close To Midnight”, “Freak-A-Zoid”, “Planetary Invasion”, “Get Dressed” or ” Dead End End” 12″es?
They are so hard to find…
Well, in May of 1980 I turned 15 years old so, my mid teens to early 20s were smack dab through the 80s so the majority of my records are from that period, obviously. I don’t have anymore Midnight Star ready to go right now but there will be some more down the road.
thanks for this post!! excellent record.
Glad U like it!
End End haha
heh heh, no worries
OMG YES!!!!!!
I did good?
You always do good.
I’m thinking of recording all my vinyl, and replacing what mp3s I have with the new files, just so I really have MY collection on my computer, pops, cracks, et al. Not sure I have the time or space to do a big blog like this, but I look forward to the fun of it.
I highly recommend it. Thanks Ernest.
I realize your rips are offered “as is” and your generosity is greatly appreciated (to say the least!), but as someone mentioned on another blog, pretty consistently your rips exhibit a mild degree of clipping and dynamic range compression. The second half of the A-side track on this rip is a particularly egregious example, with 1487 clipped samples (left) and 1820 clipped samples (right), with the vast majority occurring in the second half of the song.
Generally, whatever you’re doing to cause this is not resulting in any audible problems, per se (like I said, it’s mild), but when comparing your rips to others made from the same records, yours have measurably less dynamic range, and it’s audibly noticeable that you’ve taken away some of the music’s “punch”. It’s not a huge difference in sound, but there’s a dramatic difference in the waveform graphs.
Are you making a deliberate effort to make them sound “loud”, like the way modern (mid-’90s and later) CDs are mastered, or is it just an accident? If it’s unintentional, it could be happening by sending too much signal into your soundcard during initial recording (most soundcards have a built-in limiter that kicks in around -3 dBFS), or accidentally over-increasing the volume during well-intended EQing, noise reduction, and volume normalization. In any case, I’m not saying you need to change your ripping process; I just happen to be sensitive to this issue because I’m always on the lookout for the “best” masterings, and thought you should be aware of it in case it’s an accident.
On a similar note, whatever you’re doing to max out the volume is also making it impossible to do accurate “album”/”audiophile”-mode ReplayGain scanning. Ideally, when there’s more than one track on one side of a record, the relative loudness of those tracks should be kept the same throughout your cleanup and mastering process. For example, if one song is 5 dB quieter than the others on that side, it should remain that much quieter when you’re done editing. When the side is scanned, that relative level will be noted, and the song will play 5 dB quieter than the others in a ReplayGain-aware player configured in album mode (as foobar2000 defaults to). Again, this is just a minor nitpick, and you can ignore it if you want.
I appreciate your deep interest in my ripping process, I really do. I rip the records to what sounds best to me, for my listening purposes and I share the work that I do with others that may be interested. I don’t get into analyzing wav forms, I don’t EQ, I don’t increase the gain after recording, I don’t do anything more than set the recording levels on the DAT deck when recording, I process the files through ClickRepair after recording with some manual removal of major pops that ClickRepair doesn’t remove and trimming of the beginning and ending of the tracks. That’s it. It produces the sound I’m looking for and I’m satisfied with the results. I hope that doesn’t deter you from visiting the blog, everyone’s ears or preference in sound quality differs and there’s no way I can attempt to satisfy everyone’s preference. Thank you for taking the time to comment and please continue to do so.
I think your rips sound alright. That’s why I collect so many of them. Can’t please everyone, no doubt.
Who remembers the JJ Fad 1-900 number? “We’re JJ Fad and we’re here to TALK!”
Thank you Tony and no, don’t remember that one. I do have “Way Out” though.