''The Source'' is the fourth studio album by

Grandmaster Flash Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958), popularly known by his stage name Grandmaster Flash, is an American DJ and rapper. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Hip Hop DJing, cutting, scratching and mixing. Grandmaster Flash and the Fur ...

, released in 1986. It was reissued in the US on CD for the first time in 2005 (

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, CCM-583-2).

Track listing

#"Street Scene" – 3:06 #"Style (Peter Gunn Theme)" – 3:57 #"Ms. Thang" – 3:55 #"P.L.U. (Peace, Love and Unity)" – 3:57 #"Throwin' Down" – 3:45 #"Behind Closed Doors" – 3:39 #"Larry's Dance Theme (Part 2)" – 3:31 #"Lies" – 3:32 #"Fastest Man Alive" – 5:22 #"Freelance" – 5:08

Personnel

(Joseph Saddler) –

turntables A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...

The Kidd Creole Nathaniel Glover (born February 19, 1960), also known as Nate or Danny Glover and better known by the stage name Kidd Creole, is a former American rapper. He was a member of the pioneering old school hip hop group Grandmaster Flash & the Furious ...

(Nathaniel Glover jr) – Lead and background vocals, writer and arranger *Rahiem (Guy Todd Williams) – Lead and background vocals, writer and arranger *La Von (Kevin Lavon Dukes) – Lead and background vocals, writer and arranger,

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Broadway (Russell Wheeler) – rap vocals *Larry "Love" (Larry Parker) –

Dancer Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoi ...

*Shame (Jesse Dukes) – Flash's assistant

Musicians

*Chuck Kentis –

synth A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and f ...

*Guy Williams, Joseph Saddler –

drum programming Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These mus ...

*Guy Vaughn – bass, synth, drum programming *Allen Douches –

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

*Barbara Baker, Vincent Castellano –

executive producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights o ...

s *Joseph Saddler, Vincent Castellano – producer Recorded and mixed at Grand Slam Studio, West Orange, NJ.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Source, The 1986 albums Grandmaster Flash albums Elektra Records albums Albums produced by Grandmaster Flash