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Original 1991 45 King Records cassette. This is not a Tuff City reissue. This is not a later Lost Breakbeats press. This is Mark the 45 King’s own label, his own address, his own tape.
DJ Mark “The 45 King” (Mark Howard James, 1961–2023).
Flavor Unit architect. “The 900 Number.” Queen Latifah. Jay-Z “Hard Knock Life.” Eminem “Stan.”J-card: TEST 45 KING PRESSING with the original 45-adapter artwork and crown.
Discogs lists this exact cassette as “Very rare!!!”
The matching 1991 LP (JB-010) almost never surfaces. The MJ-1000 Test Press 12” — a different piece — trades in the hundreds. This cassette is the in-house album tape from his own imprint. Completists hunting original 45 King Records product do not have a pile of these sitting around.
Full program — 10 tracks:
Black Side
Go Head Up
I’m Here
Lock Up Time
Pete 90
That Zant
White Side
45 King Kick It
All That
Devils Island
Queen Ann Rd.
Made In NY
Instrumental breakbeat album. The same set later circulated as The Lost Breakbeats – Test Press. Those later copies are not this copy.
Condition — see every photo. What you see is what you get.
Original J-card, original printed shell, original clear case. Age and light handling on the insert consistent with a 35-year-old NYC tape. Not sealed. Not a warehouse leftover.
