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Simon Harris on DJ Semtex
Posted by Waxer | Posted in Audio, MP3 Download, Semtex, Simon Harris, UK Hip Hop History, UK Hip Hop Radio Shows | Posted on 13-02-2010
Last night I was fumbling about on the net and my old pal Dan Fluent posted up on FACEBOOK that Music Of Life label owner was on DJ Semtex’s show on 1xtra. Personally, I don’t think Semtex represents Hip Hop… not my definition of it anyway, and I couldn’t actually be arsed to listen to all the dog shit that he plays just to hear the interview with Simon Harris, so I waited until it was up on iPlayer and ripped it to post up here so you get straight to the meat.
I haven’t actually fully listened to this yet so I can’t comment on the content, but Simon Harris’ imprint MOL played probably the most important part in the development of UK Hip Hop since the Electro series from Morgan Khan’s Streetsounds label. For the unaquainted, MOL was responsible for the first DJ scratch tools that I was aware of, the Breaks, Beats & Scratches LPs. He was responsible for signing Derek B (the first MOL release being “Good Groove”) and probably the ultimate UK britcore anthem “Untitled” by Hardnoise.
His vision opened up a lot of careers… other artists include MC Duke & Daddy Freddy, and probably my top UK crew Demon Boyz. He also released the Hard As Hell series, plus the Live Hustlers convention, opening up more avenues for underground UK artists.
Enjoy this and leave a comment about what you thought about Simon Harris’s statements… peace, Waxer.
Cheers for posting this up, wicked listen man
i’ll be on this later [see what the man has to say for himself]. I thought mol was owned by a guy called ‘chris france, and simon was the in-house producer? or i could be getting slightly confused…
P.s:-he threatened to close down the underground strikes back blog last year ‘cos scenes put up a copy of ‘breaks, beats and scratches’ LP. Scenes told him to “crawl under the rock he came from”, or summat like that…
lokking forwards to listening to this mate,
cheers,
Baz.
Yeah I heard summat about Scenes blog… that’s why I privately host my site no one can say sheeeeit! Rapidshare killed all the links I had up for the vinyl rips I did of all the beats breaks & scratches last year so I suppose he must check around…
Thanks again for editing this. I remember the name Semtex from years back but never listened to him or his mix tapes. What a twat-arse. Since when did Simon Harris ‘invent’ the ‘ahhh’ and ‘fresh’ scratches?
I listened to the whole show in it’s entirety on the night. My ears have now gone off and left me. I’m trying to coax them back with a bit of Breaking Atoms.
Chipmunk? My arse.
many thanks for posting this up … it really is a different world nowadays aint it !!!! MOL was reppin for the UK !! big up to all the old skool fools !! great blog site !
listenin 2 dis now, it was rock the beat not good groove dat was 1st on mol btw!
Simon is on our real hip hop show tomorrow night LIVE…none of this commercial trash!
Last month we had T LA ROCK!
Old skool hip hop and only the best underground new material!