Disco Scratch

Live & Direct From The POV

I know I’ve been away and not had much chance to get my act together for the shows, but as some of you know I had some family stuff to deal with.  Anyway, stronger than ever I’m back this week and for the next 4 weeks I am back in full interview mode.  The lineup is 90% there but not sure yet what day those people will be on (confirming today)

The show is always evolving and now I’ll be including the following sections:

Guest Mix

Your chance to send me a mix for the show, no more than half an hour.  Upload to somewhere like Mediafire then use the contact form to let me know you’ve uploaded it, or just hit me on FaceBook.  There are no rules, just do your thing!  Oh, I’d prefer it if you could not include profanity as over the next year I’m hoping to increase the portfolio to try to get the show on a station like the BBCs Radio 6.  E-mail is discoscratch@gmx.com if you prefer.

Pub Quiz

Let the nerd in you jump out and get cred.  Probably I’ll be running this every other week.  I’ll be going through the rules and stuff in this weeks show, basically you need a team of 2 or more and I need at least 2 teams per quiz…oh, and obviously you need a team name, something like “Rap Nerds”, “Bicuit Dunkers Unite” or “Uphill Gardening Massive”, oh, er… sorry that’s another quiz… so hit your geeky mates up, get a team ready, leave your nines at home and bring your geekiness to the battle…

Wax Can’t Drum

In the forum I put a post up about what track you’d like me to recreate.  Once a month I’ll do this and it’ll be on the show first then on youtube and facebook.  I decided I might as well push the boat out with this, so I’m actually going to try to recreate every part of the track, so I’ll drum, scratch, do the samples and god help me, rap! There will be a vote for you to pick which old school classic out of four you’d like to hear, so I’m at your mercy!  Be prepared for me saying I’ll do it once a month and that turning into once a year though!  If I get it down to pat I might even do a set at the DS Christmas Do! (God help YOU LOT!!!)

Competitions

As well as the pub quiz I’ll be running regular competitions with great prizes courtesy of my man Ewan at RareKind Records Brighton.  This will probably be every week that I don’t do an interview, or if the interviewee wants to give something away then I’ll be doing something joint with them.

Reviews

If you have a new release let me know.  Use the contact form and I’ll send you postal details for vinyl and promotional stuff.  For MP3s please e-mail discoscratch@gmx.com.  I’ll do a review on the show and also post it up on the main site, like I did with the Solid and Mind 12 and the Chrome EP “Flow Man”

Chart

Also I’ll be doing a chart rundown, probably either once a fortnight or once every month.  This will be for whatever Hip Hop is out there that’s floating my boat at that particular time.  It’s impossible to get any real idea of sales and such, so when I hear dope stuff I’ll be noting it in a chart.  If you know of stuff that’s out there, let me know in the forum, there’s a special section in there.  I’ll be posting the chart on the main site as a separate post with a mix of the tracks in that chart so you can hear them or burn to CD or whatever…

Disco Scratch Rap Session

Whenever I get a chance to catch up with MCs I’ll be recording live rap sessions for broadcast exclusively on the show, so if you’d like to come to the Palace Of Villainy with your crew, I’ll hook the mics up and get on the decks while you drop science.  I am mobile and have the gear to record wherever, but it’s never like it is in the studio while accompanied with jerk chicken, rice n peas from Tasties in Dudley & Red Stripe from my man J at Bain’s Wines up the road in Netherton!  That’s what I’ll be providing for those that want to bless the mics…

Guest Co Hosters

If you feel you’d like to cole rock the spot with me for a show, let me know… I can do it in person with a visit from you to the Palace Of Villainy (preferable) or over Skype.  I used skype (username DiscoScratch) with MC Duke and it was crystal clear with no lag, so deffo an option, but never like it is when you do it in a studio together.  I’ll be doing some shows with Big Jim soon and hopefully Duce (both from my old radio show) so as usual let me know via the usual channels…

Suggestions

As things progress with the show I love to get your feedback, so in the forum there’s a section for feedback and comments about the show, so let me know if you’re feeling what I’m doing or not, also feel free to add your comments to this post, but the forum is probably better as many more people can be active in the thread

Well, that about wraps it up for this update, speak to you all on the air, peace & hairgrease…