{"id":1216,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T06:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2011-07-01T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T01:04:10","slug":"knightsoftheturntables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/deejays\/knightsoftheturntables.htm","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Turntables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members<\/span><\/span>
\nLil Roc-n-G (Gerard Burton)
\nMC C-Breeze (Curtis Harvey)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerard Burton was orginally from Carson, Ca. and Curtis Harvey was from San Pedro, Ca. by way of Rochester NY. Curtis moved San Pedro in the early 80’s.<\/p>\n

They kicked off in 1984 on JDC records with the oft-sampled “Techno Scratch” which sampled Woody Woodpecker’s laugh.<\/p>\n

In 1985 they surpassed themselves with the double AA side “We are The\u00a0 Knights” their only vocal track and a dub version entitled “The Knights Go to the Moon with Dog, Cat, Mouse and Woodpecker” (Honest!) and the template for house music the electro-hybrid “Jam Your Radio (Fresh mess)”.<\/p>\n

They also competed with a rival group called the Majestic Crew.<\/p>\n

One member of the group went on to release another record called “Three People Naked Below the Waist” under the name Tyrants in Therapy.\u00a0 They were a “new wave” style group which featured lots of abstract scratching while the group sang\/chanted.\u00a0 Apparently this member was the only one who continued to show up on record after the Knights two singles because he later released a mix-plate type record with him cutting up some of the records he used on “Techno Scratch.”<\/p>\n

Check out Video of the Knights from 1986<\/h3>\n