Disco Scratch

Well… been a while, eh? Yep nothing from the Palace of Villainy for a good while… still, onwards & upwards, here we are in 2010, so to kick things off for this year (a little late but never mind!) here’s another tape rip from my collection.

This one has no date, but Dave Pearce mentions live on GLR this easter Weekend and I think this was 1989 so gotta be round there somewhere.  This tape’s got audio from the Cash Money & Marvellous Night Network performance they did, I have it on VHS and loved the routine so much I got the audio off my dad’s video recorder onto tape and put it on this one.  Some nice classic Capital Radio jingles and Westwood one liners in here plus the set from DJ Aladdins DMC performance of the year, cuts are fatal, he was the best at transforming back then easily.

Track List:

Side A:

1.Kane – Lean On Me

2.Eazy E – We Want EZ

3.Special Ed – I got It Made

4.All Out Kings (One of my fave Hip Hop crew names EVER!) – Shack It Up (got this on 12, LOVE IT!)

5.??? Cold Ca$h

6.Gig Guide

7.Black Rock & Ron – Tired Of All Of This

8.DEF – Dougie Fresh

9.Stetsasonic – Ain’t Makin it

10…. In My Move

Side B

1.Aladdin DMC routine

2.De La Soul – Brainwashed Followers

3.? But Def!

4.LL Cool J – Rock The Bells

⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓ Night Network N Sign Radio ⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓

5.K9 Posse – Ain’t Nuthin to it

6.Steady B – Serious (BDP Remix)

7.Soul 2 Soul – Keep On Moving

8.Cash Money & Marvellous Live in the studio

Enjoy… I’ll keep uppin’ ‘em, you keep downin’ ‘em!

 

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Many thanks for supporting DS for it’s first year in existence… some things didn’t work out for one reason or another.. I would have like to have put on an old school jam with some prime UK artists but didn’t have the resource… an old school meet up never happened, I was going to try to get a load more vinyl & tape rips up but I’m afraid time was against me and lastly because of the weather I just couldn’t get over to Repo136 to do the Christmas podcast…

BUT

We have had loads of dope tape rips, vinyl, some great discussions and next year round about spring I’ll be taking the site down, revamping it and coming back like Lee Majors!  Hopefully there will be a meet up next year, plus the database will be back up and running and I’ll be opening a shop for all your purchases.  I’ll have stuff like custom graf clothing, jewelery like 4 finger rings, tag belts, old trainers like Troop & British Knights & maybe some old vinyl & such.  If you are interested in having your stuff available in the shop please let me know.

I want to introduce a new feature where you can upload your own audio & video for sharing with other old schol UK heads.

So, on that note, I’ll be away for a couple of weeks over Christmas and new year so I really hope everyone has a great holiday season and I’ll speak to you in the new year.

May the force be with you, peace, Waxer.

Yes yes y’all!!! Get your funky egg nog on, light those scented candles, bung on those dodgy 10 year old fire hazard lights, pull back the tab on a cold can of red stripe, throw another log on that open fire and let the dulcit tones of Mr Repo136 & Mr WaxonWaxoff drift merrily over you as we drown you in verbal diorrhea!

Yes, 2 hours of chat about how good Hip Hop used to be, hear us moan about the state of the current scene, join in with our rants about lack of lyricism these days, suede Pumas, diamond pattern socks, 8 ball jackets and when Westwood was good….

That’s right you lucky people, on Saturday 19th December 2009, the 2 leaders in the retro UK Hip Hop scene combine for a legendary podcast. Fuelled by mulled wine, egg nog & meths, we aim to entertain you and ring a few people while we’re recording and put them on the spot. If you know us and we have your number, WATCH OUT!!! We’ll be dropping the dopest old school flavour, some apt Christmas joints, I might even dress up as Waxer Claus who knows!!!

We’ll take some pictures and take your attention for a few seconds as you marvel over pictures of us messing about with that old stuff called “Vinyl” Yes that’s right, only REAL RECORDS getting played here ladies & gentlemen! If you wanna get at us, leave a message here, on facebook , twitter or hit Benzini up at ABBU  or get at him on Facebook. So, to recap, booze, memories, proper Hip Hop, from Saturday 19th December 2009…. In the words of Eazy E, “Merry muthaphuckin’ Christmas!!!”

So a few days have now passed since I first heard of the untimely death of an inspiring, ground breaking and influential UK MC.  Derek Boland, born 15th January 1965 in London, started DJing at 15 on pirates in London, namely LWS and KISS.  Rock the Beat was his first sonic Assault in 1987, released on the Music Of Life imprint and forging a new path for UK acts to follow in his wake.  Derek B was the  third rapper to ever perform on Top Of The Pops, with “Bad Young Brother”,  following Doug E Fresh and Break Machine.

He was a big big name back in 88 and I remember my first purchase of his was indeed the “Bad Young Brother” 12.  The energy that he had was inspirational and I’m proud to say I was a fan back then and will continue to be a fan of his music.

After releasing his LP “Bullet from a gun” I don’t really recall much being released from him, or seeing him anywhere he seemed to just fade out.

I think this was because he is essentially an old school artist and struggled to find a place in the Britcore scene at the time, which had become harsh and political instead of the party style that Derek B was associated with.  I never had the pleasure of seeing him live on stage, but I do however have some quality 80s footage on video which as far as I’m aware is not available ANYWHERE on the net, so I’m going to try to find it, rip it and upload it to youtube tonight, then add it in here later.

There is a lot of stuff I could write about Derek B, but in the past week a lot has been written already and I don’t want to fo over the same stuff twice, so here are some

links:

Drew Huge from Fat Lace does freelance journalism and wrote this piece for The Guardian

Here is the link to The Guardians’ piece about Derek Bs death and here is the obituary.

More Links to Derek B:

Derek Bs Myspace

Derek B on wikipedia

His discography

New Music Express

BBC news article

Starts tributes to him (via Gigwise)

I always believe in looking back over someone’s life with happiness that they existed and contributed to our lives and considering the up and coming festive season, here is the dope “Chillin’ With Santa” as included on the “Christmas Rappin” LP that came out in 1987.

 

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Nuff respect to Derek B, a UK legend.  Being as Disco Scratch is at the heart of the old school UK Hip Hop community and is read by many people in the scene show some love & respect for this artist by taking the time to leave a comment to this post, it will be a longstanding mark of his career.

In the early to mid 90s myself and Duce did a weekly scratchfest/B Boy event in a bar in Pompey called Slurps.  I can’t remember how long it ran, I think maybe around 3 months before the management kicked us out?  Well anyway, it was there that I met this fresh faced scratch fanatic known then only as “Theory”.  I saw him around at various events and then noticed him starting to compete at events, not only that but winning too.  Theory’s style was… well, vicious to be honest!  I knew he was a horror fan and I think maybe this bled into his scratching & turntablism.  Now I’m sure I’m gonna get this all arse about face and dates wrong and all that but I’m doing my best!

Theory, alongside Shanks & someone else (ooops!) started a DJ crew called Plastic Soldiers, dunno if they’re all still affiliated or moved on now or what but still they were dope!  So Theory moved round in various Hip Hop circles… I had moved to London and got bits and bobs of information about him and learned he’d started combining his DJ skills with other musical styles.  I gotta admit I was surprised to hear this but I heard his music and can only say he is in a genre of his own.  You can’t call it folk music, or roots or blues or turntablism or really pigeonhole it anywhere.  I’ll leave it to you to visit No Frills Records to check his music out for yourself.

So Theory carved himself a path through music in the UK with various influences, styles & some damn fine turntablism skills… now Theory 77 is very active in the UK music scene, check his site out for all the links, just google him for all his myspace/soundcloud/blah blah links and anything not listed on his site.

Even though Theory has a wide range of skills with Rhyming, poetry, spoken word, turntablism, production, engineering and knowledge of various acoustic instruments, he often returns to his roots… it’s with this that brings me to this piece of devastatingly fresh audio, a just over 30 minutes mix of def old school tracks and razor sharp cuts.  This ain’t your average “Golden Era” mix with a load of predictable tracks in there either… there are a lot of tracks you hardly ever hear, so massive props for that!  He still intersperses that with def tracks like “Lyrics Of Fury” & “Breakin Bells” but biggest pat on the back goes for including one of my fave Hip Hop tracks ever, “Holy War”.

So onto the Audio, here’s Theory 77… Reasons… enjoy & if you like his stuff PLEASE SUPPORT HIM & BUY HIS MUSIC!  Nuff respect, see ya!

 

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After some chat in the forum about old radio rips I thought it’d been a while since I uploaded one.  So I ripped a tape tonight with a classic live performance from UK Britcore legends Hardnoise.  I’ve never heard a live performance of theirs anywhere else so this may indeed be an exclusive.  You may have heard the EXACT same audio before because I included the Hardnoise set on a mix CD for HOUKHH a couple of years ago, so maybe someone ripped it & leaked it, who knows? I decided to make a 2 year jump to this tape as there had been chat about Max & Dave and Richie Rich so I got this one ripped.

Well anyway, this tape has got the live Dingwalls set from Saturday 12th December 2009, broadcast from midnight to 2am on Kiss 100FM in London, hosted by Max LX & Dave VJ.  Hardnoise do a slammin’ performance of Untitled, folowed by a few cuts by Dave VJ, then you hear me whizz across the dial to Capital to get Westwood on at the same time.  Then there’s audio from the Richie Rich Rap Academy that was on a week later to finish the tape.  I tried to scan the cover but my poxy scanner won’t work in Snow Leopard (Grrrrrrrr!)  Hope you like it, another step back in time to the golden era of UK Hip Hop…

Side 1:

1.Hardnoise PA Dingwalls, Camden.

2.Kool G Rap & Polo – Poison

3.Gang Starr – Can’t Handle The Whole Weight

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Westwood

4.?

5.?

6.Build Bridges Instead

7.Young Girls wine

8.Kane – I Can Do It Right Remix

9.Main Source – Just A Friendly Game Of Baseball

10.Main Source – Live At The BBQ

11.Ghetto Is The World

Side 2:

1.Heal

2.?

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Richie Rich

3.Kane – Get The Job Done

4.Digital Underground – Same Song

5.K Solo – Fugitive

6.Young Disciples – Step Off

7.Main Source – Snake Eyes

8.Gang Starr – Execution Of A Chump

9.You Can’t Play With My Yo Yo – Yo Yo & Ice Cube

10.Kane – I Can Do It Right Remix

 

 Disco Scratch UK Radio Rips Tape 63 [98:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (423)

Last Thursday I went down to the Hare & Hounds in the South of Brum. Got a lift with DJ Cro (respect for the grub mate!), then into the venue to meet Pogo, Sparkii, Pritt, Mikey D, Maurizio (RSC) Beatmaster and a load of proper Hip Hop heads. Kosyne came up as well and we had a chat, nice one mate ( http://louisden.com )

So I got on stage to do my bit, a little LL Cool J “I’m Bad” intro, followed by the beat. I did 3 parts to the beat as there was loads of material on the records I bought to make a beat out of… and Pritt got back £9 change from a score!

Here’s some pics:

The night was wicked, with Cro dropping a bad boy underground set, followed by Ian Beatmaster rockin the wheels, then it was me (no one to battle, my opponent Darren Myers never showed up) followed by Sparkki rockin the mic, some beatbox and freestytles, then Pogo ripped it up with some B Boys out the crowd doing their thing, followed by Mikey D tering up the stage!

What a night and to top it off Mikey D announced we are going to do a track together! Can’t ask for more than that!

So here’s the track I made, props to Pritt for his ongoing support love & dedication to Hip Hop, to Mikey forblessing the mic and still slamming MCs on cement after nearly 30 years in the game!

To Pogo/Cro/Beatmaster for killing it on the wheels of steel, Sparkii for all his hard work & ongoing commitment to the scene, Keith for all the background work you did (respect to the molecule), and to all the heads I spoke to in the crowd nuff respect for turning up and supporting real Hip Hop!

Lastly sorry to the geezer who’s head nearly got taken off when I threw my breaks into the crowd!

For more information head to http://kingofthebeats.com

 

 Waxer - King Of The Beats 2009 entry [5:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (338)

Well people I had a phone call from a guy named Pritt who runs King Of The Beats

For those that don’t know, KOTB was the first event that I knew where producers could battle each other with beats in a proper old school way. In other words, you relied on your knowledge of beats and breaks to build a track, where you have to find the original samples in a short space of time on a digging mission, then back to the lab and make a beat. All in a day with no more than a score’s worth of wax.

So DJ Cro had spoken to me about the Louis Den event a little while ago, with the producers league which I was interested in, the KOTB came along and he put my name forward to Pritt.

So this Satrurday I’m going to meet him in Brum to have a good yarn about the event and hopefully from there I’ll be in it. Pritt has been striving for that true essence of Hip Hop and hopes to continue that with KOTB 3. So the event for Brum is at the Hare & Hounds on Thursday 1st October, flyer below… so if you want to catch old Waxer knocking a beat up and battling others, come along!

If you had a time machine and went back to Folkestone in the UK on valentines day 1997 sometime early afternoon, you’d see a red nosed skinhead in a work jacket suffering from sinusitis that made his FACE CREAK in a queue of other True School heads waiting to get into the best event I’ve ever been to.

Fresh 97 ran for 3 days and was a legendary jam. There is no real way I can capture the essence of that jam by writing, putting videos up, literally there’s nothing I can do. If you were there maybe this post will jog some memories.  Basically when I was there I decided to get as many acts to sign my programme as possible, I got most of ‘em…  So the other week I scanned my entire programme, trimmed the images in photoshop then created a PDF document from the images.  So I’ve decided to put it up for download for your perusal.  All the images are high res so this PDF with only 8 images weighs in at just under 30MB.

I hope you enjoy a slice of UK History, maybe leave a comment if you were there?

I was going to post where the DVD is available from, but the place I got mine from doesn’t exist any more and I ended up giving it away in a competition on the radio!  (I’ll be asking him for a copy!)

Here’s some YouTube action of Trix presenting “Out Of Control”

So anyway, enough twoddle, here’s the download of the PDF:

Just using this as a tune to test the iTunes feed and all the settings…

 

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