The traffic's really crazy

totally unrelated

Dino-In The City (LP version) (4th and B'Way, 1989)

Will To Power-Dreamin (Epic, 1987)


Ice Palace in Hawaii was the indisputable jump-off for post-chuck e. cheese-age birthday parties. God knows how many i went to there, from the time i was 4 till I moved to Cali. Aside from those annoying figure skater girls that had to show off 24/7 (and really, who were they trying to impress? I dont think many olympic team recruiters think of hawaii as a figure skating hot spot), the music is what i remember most vividly.

Freestyle and miami bass type jawns were the sounds du jour and to this day whenever my brother and I talked about freestyle, there is some reference to Ice Palace. Take a look at some of those photos (the link) with the bboy stance in front of the graff wall. Impressive.
The damn is place is inextricably linked to the music for me (even though all kinds of gospel rock events now go down there).

Somewhat ironically, I picked these 12"s up from a Salvation Army not too far from Ice Palace this summer. I was working on a mixtape (which among these tracks, features a few too many Stevie B tracks for anyone's good, but what can you do?) and these tracks just stood out for me and i figured what the hell, record em and throw em up here.

I suppose these could be "guilty pleasures" but they bump. (The Dino track is pushing it with the house 4 on the floor breakdowns and perhaps the worst lyrics ever...but the intro is sick...and at least the pic sleeve has no shirtless Dino action).

Much respect to the mobile crews of the Bay who were killing this shit since day one. (and mega ups to Pone for knowing way too much about LMR)...unleash the bass!