Hip Hop Be Bop

The Buggers were originally the production duo of Jose “Animal” Diaz and Carlos De Jesus. They recorded this electro track in 1984 before Jose, famous for his remix of Cybotron’s ‘Clear’, went on to use the name without Carlos. He released a couple of dance music tracks as The Buggers and a later dance track as D-Buggers.

This track also featured Latin musician, Ricardo Marrero and included lots of future sample fodder thanks to the SFX mix which omitted the actual music. Additional vocals were courtesy of Derin Young and Cyre Rodriguez.

It was most famously  sampled by the likes of Coldut for Eric B & Rakim’s Paid in Full (Six Minutes of Madness Mix) and Stock, Aitken and Waterman‘s chart hit Roadblock as well as providing the catchy hook to Whistle’s (Nothing Serious) Just Buggin.