Don't Stop: Recording Tap
Various Artists
In January of 2006 the Numero Group found itself sitting three wide on a weight bench in a damp garage. Eight hours later we peeled out of the driveway with a thirty-seven tape mystery. Although Jeremiah Yisrael's Tap label only issued a handful of 12"s between 1981-83, the tape deck never stopped rolling, producing dozens of lavish songs in disco's last days. From the string heavy sugar boogie of Jackie Stoudemire and Arnie Love to pioneering raps by Missy Dee & the Melody Crew and the Fabulous 3 MCs, Recording Tap covers a wide swath of New York's all night sound. The single disc set includes a miniature song book and expansive booklet stuffed with photos and memorabilia, all housed in a miniature replica tape box. Includes rare and unreleased recordings by Arnie & the Lovettes, Annette Denvil, Bonnie Freeman, the Fabulous 3 MCs, Missy Dee & the Melody Crew, Magnetism, and Jackie Stoudemire.
Don't Stop: Recording Tap will be not only the first album in our new Don't Stop series, but will also be the first Numero Release to feature an LP version with AN ENTIRE EXTRA 2-SIDED LP OF MATERIAL NOT FEATURED ON THE CD. Do you mokes even know how serious this is??? The CD will be great for doing lines off of, sure, we love disco as much as you, that's why we're releasing this. But with this release, it is truly the limited-to-3,000-copies 3-LP's-in-a-beautiful-box with two separate sets of insert booklets, one chronicling the Tap story, and one reprinting the TAP songbook, culled from the man-height stacks of sheet music we got a hold of. Yes, the CD comes with both of these booklets, sugar, but I want the LP's, you want the LP's, we ALL want the LP's, but only 3,000 of us will ever have them.
