Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit about hip hop. In the late 80s and early 90s hip hop ruled my musical life. During this often called 'Golden Era' I discovered so much incredible music. As I am slowly replacing the CDs I've had for twenty-five plus years with vinyl copies, I'm going to talk about some albums that had a really important impact on me during some very formative years.
I have written about this record before when I picked up a copy of the original pressing, but I felt it was important to say a little bit about this reissue from 90s Tapes that came out a few months ago. 90s Tapes is the absolute gold standard for hip hop reissues and the care that they've put into Action packed Adventure is right up there with the best releases in their catalog. The original UK version was a single disc, so it was nice to have it expanded to a double LP so that the songs have a little more room to breathe. Plus the extra LP and bonus 7" allows for six extra tracks that weren't on the original including remixes and an instrumental.
I said most of what I needed to say about the music itself the last time I wrote about this album. I'll just mention again that this is classic Golden Era greatness from 1994. The production is everything I want out of an album that came out in '94. And while I wouldn't describe the MCing as elite for the time period, it gets the job done and makes for a super enjoyable album.
This is the version to hunt down if you need a copy. No one does reissues like 90s Tapes and with Yaggfu Front, they pay the appropriate respect to a lost classic of the Golden Era.
Yaggfu Front – Action Packed Adventure!:
