But in ‘77 not long after Jam On Productions was formed, hip hop was coming down strong in Brooklyn, and everyone was taking on a name like “Master B,” “Frankie D,” and so forth, so I cut my name short to Cosmo D. My first name that I took, I had a comic book character that I created as a kid called “Captain Cosmo,” and one of my favorite records was El Coco’s Mondo Disco. People wanted to hustle to the disco, and people wanted to party to the funk. When we first started out we were spinning funk and disco, because that’s what was really happening in Brooklyn. What kind of stuff were you spinning back then? So it was 1977 when Dave joined and took Monique’s place that we became Jam-On Productions. And the next summer, my cousin Monique, she was going to go away to college, so we got my best friend Dave, who grew up in Park Slope with me. But by the next year we moved on up to Technics SL-23s, which are the best belt-driven turntables ever made period, and that’s what we really learned how to spin on.

No pitch, no strobe – we didn’t know nothing about pitch and strobe anyway. Our equipment was nothing special: a BSR turntable and a Gerard turntable. We grew up as brothers and sisters, basically. It started out with my cousins Monique and Pete Angevin.

Newcleus jam on it what year