Disco Scratch

Yes that’s right, grab your Motorola flip,stick a few cold Red Stripes in a bag,  borrow your mums car and drive up a hill nearby as you move your aerial about to listen to the dulcit tones of WaxOnWaxOff as he defecates in your ear canals with the dopest flavours from the UK, 21 years ago!  This week I was dusting off some old tunes and I’d sorted out a load of stuff and the majority was from 1989.  Upon closer inspection it dawned on me that 1989 was probably the best year for the UK and decided to do a 1989 special.

The tracks I play are full of wicked lyrical skills, def production, I mean cutting up stabs on top of breaks, like James Brown & The Meters while top rappers deliver raps so sharp you imagine them in pain after they finish rhyming, cutting the insides of their mouths with the razor sharp verbals.

This show takes you back to a time when the UK were HUNGRY for Hip Hop and keen to split from the US and stand on their own.  The UK had by this time got a solid enough base of radio stations, venues, record shops, producers, labels, engineers, club DJS and such to be self supportive and this show proves that.  Listen to the shout outs at the end of the MC Mello tracks “Bizzie Rhymin” to hear a nice slice of who was making the most noise at the time.

The only downer with this show is that I had a few gremlins in the studio last night and couldn’t record it at high quality and for some reason the stream went out at a lower quality so it’s not as bright as usual… but maybe that was fate?  Maybe someone used the force to manipulate that to give it a dusty tinge to replicate those static filled tapes from 1989, with the odd burst of the local taxi firm overriding your tape recording.  Still, the Disco Scratch logo was shone into the night, and the red Scratch phone rang at Repo136′s yard, where a mighty voice from one of the generals of the UK Army’s front line on maneuvers told me it was OK… he was recording…  download is at the bottom of the post after the tracklist…. Enjoy this show and get on next week for UK LEGEND MC DUKE!!!

Tracklist:

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.Waxer – Where’s The Scratch
3.2 The Top – The Rhythm I Give ‘Em
4.Kinetic Effect – Beyond The Parameters Of Amateurs
5.Cash Crew – One Decade
6.Chris Biscuit – Rhymes To Kill
7.Cookie Crew – Born This Way
8.Dee Lawal – The D Don’t Play
9.Freshki Dames – Kickin It Live
10.JC001 & DJ D Zire – Bad Place To Get Hit
11.MC Martay & DJ DBM – Beyond Control
12.KCF Productions – Words N Music
13.MC Cardi & DJ 357 – Rough Potential
14.MC Buzz B – How Sleep The Brave (70s Funk Mix)
15.MC Groove – The Groove
16.MC Mello – Bizzie Rhymin
17.MC Untouchable – Back Street Blues
18.Shogun MC – The Struggle Continues
19.Hijack – Doomsday Of Rap
20.Normski – Easy
21.Goldtop – Introduction
22.Freshki & Mo Rock – Pick Up On This
23.DJ Mink – Hey Hey Can You Relate
24.Cue Tips & Dashy D – Control
25.Blade – We’re Going Independent
26.MCs Logic – We’re On A Mission
27.MC Duke – I’m Riffin’

 

 Disco Scratch Radio 8 1989 Special [117:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (245)

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.

 

 Semtex-Simon Harris [54:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (394)

Continuing in this series this is number 4, out of 8 that I own.  A few decent loops on this one, Straight Out Of Compton beat, Soul To Soul’s Back to Life break, Bob James’ Mardi Gras & Impeach The President among others.

Tracklisting:

Here’s the 3rd installment of the Breaks, Beats & Scratches volumes… and by far the shittest yet!

I can’t help it, I got these for the scratches, but other than the 900 number loop and the scandalise loop, the rest is, well, plop. Even house lovers that know the “house” loops he made said they were gash.

Still, here it is… er, enjoy?

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Simon Harris – Breaks, Beats & Scratches Volume 3 (Music Of Life 1989)

Vinyl rip @ 192kbps/44.1khz/16bit/stereo

A1             128 BPM Hip House (3:00)
A2           124 BPM Monster Beats (3:00)
A3           108 BPM Secret Beats (3:00)
A4           105 BPM Dopejam (3:00)
A5           124 BPM Pleasure Break (2:50)
A6           126 BPM Deep House (1:50)
A7           104 BPM Garibaldi Beats (3:00)
B1           110 BPM 45 Rocks The Spot (3:00)
B2           122 BPM Scandalous Riddim (3:00)
B3           122 BPM Racing Loop (3:00)
B4           119 BPM Dancefloor Drums (3:00)
B5           121 BPM Southern Style and Fashion (3:00)
B6           FX & Scratches

3rd installment of gash beats knocked up with no soul, I gotta admit, these albums were pony then and are equally as bad now!  I bought these back in the day purely for scratching purposes as they were the only ones out, but fuck me with a fish fork, the actual beats are dog shit, what was he thinking?  I gotta be honest, I can’t be arsed to write out the 50 scratches on the back, I did it on the last 2 and I’ve lost the will wityh this one, I hope it doesn’t spoil your enjoyment!

Anyway, enjoy!!!!

Ripped by Waxer @ The Palace Of Villainy, 9th January 2008

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Flippin’ back through the crates to another slice of Simon Harris Wax.  This time volume 2 is up.  My personal favourite out of the first 4 that he released, this deffo had some decent cuts.  The “woo yeah” break from Lyn Collin’ “Think” makes an appearance, as does the break from Eric B & Rakim’s “Paid In Full”, Soul Searcher’s “Ashley’s Roach Clip”.

You can cop this from Rapidshare, link after the tracklist, make sure you grab volume 1 as well…

Simon Harris – Breaks, Beats & Scratches Volume 2

A1             110 BPM Dancefloor Justice (3:00)
A2           120 BPM House Attack-The Jack Zone (3:00)
A3           90 BPM Go Go Steaming & Cranking (3:00)
A4           95 BPM Rough Neck Beats (3:00)
A5           105 BPM Rebel Beats (3:00)
A6           113 BPM “The Loop Of 88″ (3:00)
B1           98 BPM “The Loop Of 87″ (3:00)
B2           104 BPM You Got Soul Loop (3:00)
B3           109 BPM Raw Loop (3:00)
B4           104 BPM Bad Young Beats (3:00)
B5           100 BPM Raggastylee (3:00)
B6           Effects & Scratches (3:00)

Effects & Scratches (hand typed too, what a BITCH!)

1. Screech 2.Woh 3.Stab 14.Chaaah!5.Hold It Now 6.Big Stab 7.Camera 8.Stab 2 9.Scratch 1 10.Break
11.Hit It 12.Rockit Stab 13.Funkyroll 14.Dit 15.Stab 3 16.Stab 4 17.Car Stab 18.Davey Stab 19.Funky 20.Bust This
21.Electro Krunch 22.Rock 23.Electrobark 24.Stab 5 25.Grunt Stab 26.Electro Stab 27.Tom Roll 28.Tape Stop 29.Electro – Uh 30.Low Tom
31.Whistle 32.The Magnificent! 33.UUH! 34.How Y’all Feel? 35.Check This out 36.  AAH Yeah 37.This Is A Test 38.Get On It 39.Laugh 40.The Music Turns Me On
41.Ridim 42.You Make Me Feel So Good 43.Calling All Cars 44.Go-Go Roll 45.Peeper Stab 46.Quack!!! 47.Creak 48.Dash 49.Crunch 50.Lazer Gun

Enjoy…

Vinyl ripped by Waxer & The Palace Of Villainy, 13th December 2008.

MP3 @ 192kbps/44.1khz/16 bit/stereo

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