Listened to this interview this morning and thought it was important for those that don’t know about this label to learn their history and those that do to refresh their memories.  The Electro series of records on this label basically shaped my youth and I can honestly say they are the most played LPs in my entire collection.  I own them all on original wax, almost all bought when they first came out, usually from Woolies in Petersfiels, or if I was in Pompey, Our Price in the Tricorn.  There really was nothing like getting a new Electro… the first 10 and the Crucials, plus Electro UK are so fundamental in my Hip Hop experience in the UK I can’t bang the drum loud enough!!!

Well, this Dave Pearce interview was fairly interesting, Morgan Khan is animated and relaxed and he covers most of the series of releases on the label, sectioned into genre.  Readers of Disco Scratch will mostly only be interested in the Electro section, commencing with Planet Rock, so if you want you can skip forward to 00:42:27 to hear this section, although the entire interview is worth listening to as there are other areas that tie in.

I also have to say that the last half hour of Dave’s choice is particularly dodgy.  Not because of the selection of  music, but he has clearly played these in software that time stretches on the fly while maintaining pitch, like Traktor or Serato and there are some awful slow downs and speed ups, the Aleem track is all over the place and it seems unnecessary as it speeds up and slows down in the middle of the track without being mixed in.  Seems like Dave got taught to mix by his mate from GLR days KCJ….

Here’s the blurb from the BBC6 site, download after the tracklist, enjoy…

Dave Pearce presents a 6 Mix special charting the history of the Street Sounds compilation albums which dominated UK dance music in the early 1980s. Started in 1982 by London based Streetwave Records as a way for people to get hold of expensive, rare dance and hip-hop 12 inch records only in available in the USA, Streetsounds compilation albums bought previously underground music onto Britain’s high streets with a new album every three month. Street Sounds compilations soon became essential for anyone into hip hop, house, rare groove or electro music, at a time when the British charts were dominated by the New Romantic bands like Visage and Spandau Ballet.
Founder Morgan Khan licensed early tracks from Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaatta and The Fatback Back as well as opening the doors for US labels like Def Jam and Profile recordings, at a time when the UK music industry was still a closed shop for anyone but the traditional major labels. Morgan Khan joins Dave in the studio to tell the incredible story of how a Hong Kong-born Indian who grew up in 1970s London came to be so influential in the early days of dance music and how Street Sounds helped bring hip hop and electronic music to the mainstream. Dave and Morgan also play and talk about seminal tracks from the Street Sounds back catalogue including D-Train, Scott La Rock, Roy Ayers and Todd Terry.

1.Raw Silk – Do It To The Music
2.Roy Ayers – Running Away
3.Candi Staton – You Got The Love
4.Fatback Band – I Found Lovin
5.Grandmaster & Melle Mel – White Lines
6.Masquerade – Set It Off
7.Rose Royce – Magic Touch
8.Chuck Brown – Bustin Loose
9.Hashim – Al Naayfish
10.Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock
11.Joe Smooth – Promised Land
12.Todd Terry – Bango (To The Batmobile)
13.Stakker – Humanoid
14.BDP – South Bronx
15.The Egyptian Lover – Do U Wanna Get Down?

Dave’s Street Sounds Mix

1.Dayton – The Sound Of Music
2.Cheryl Lynn – Encore
3.The Staple Singers – Slippery People
4.Class Action – Weekend
5.Aleem – Get Loose
6.Peter Black – My Love Is Free

UK Hip Hop Radio Tape 14

About time old Waxer drops some more dusty flavour on all you Scratcho Discers!  This tape is a bit shorter than the others I’ve upped but still comes off like frogs legs in Paris.  This must have been bang on the time when the Black Rock n Ron LP “Stop The World” came out as both Tim & Dave are playing cuts from the LP plus Black Rock n Ron were in the UK.  Dunno about you but I think the Stop The World LP is an absolute iron clad classic and I was well happy to hear some flavour from them on this tape.

Thesre are some shout outs from various heads that called into Dave Pearce’s show, one dude shouts out “Area, flex, bob, Crimea, arcade, race & stoop (I think)” so if you recognise those name maybe it was you??  About 30 seconds in there’s a crazy wack housey remix of “Scrum & Then Some“, which some of you may remember as being the much better B Side to the 12 “Black & Proud” by the Dismasters.  All these uploads are unedited, I think it’s important to keep the whole tape as is, whether good or bad.

Also the legendary “How on earth did he become a Hip Hop scratch DJ on one of the most prominent Hip Hop shows of the day” K C J does 2 utterly dreadful mixes on this tape, good selection of tunes but mixed perhaps while he was simultaneously trying to beat the world record for putting on and taking off a wetsuit complete with flippers, mask & oxygen tank as many times as possible, who knows!!!  Still, as pony as his mixing skills were, you gotta love it!!!

Track List: (Remember back then I might have missed the track name or artist name so when I do these track lists I just copy whatever I put on the tape)

Side 1

1.Ca$h & Marv – Who’s In The Place

2.? Black Is Back

3.KCJ – Live Session On The Wheels

4.Stizo – Take It To The Max

5.Black Rock n Ron – ?

6.De La Soul – Ghetto Thang

7. ?/?

8/?/?

9.P Fine – NY Rap Report

10.Doug E Fresh – D.E.F

Side 2

1.KCJ – Mix #2

2.Black,Rock n Ron – Tired Of All Of This

3.Demon Boyz – Recognition

4.Kings Of Pressure – ?

5.Most Wanted – Calm Down

6.Ace & Action – Together

At the start of the tape I used a beat from my homeboy DuckAlert, if you like his stuff peep him here:

http://dopetracks.com/DuckAlert & http://twitter.com/DuckAlertUK the track is called “Diamond Dust”.

Anyway, spring is here, lookin forward to some heat hopefully… I might be moving this year back to the South so moving from the cold & damp West Midlands to get some heat back in these weary B Boy bones… see ya soon, Waxer.

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!

Hip Hop Tape 12 Front

The first side and half of side 2 is Dave Pearce with legendary shit mixer KCJ doing a couple of mixes that if in a battle Ced Gee could beat with one hand up a cows’ arse blindfolded on a fisher price turntable!

Still, that’s what makes it so listenable.  If it was DJ Aladdin standard we’d pay it no mind!

Well worth a good listen as there are a lot of writer shout outs on this tape, you never know, you may be on it!!  I have no idea which tape it is but one of the rips I’m doing a writer from Pompey rings up and shouts all the Pompey lads.

Hip Hop 12 Inlay Back

This was recorded on 5th/3rd 1989, enjoy it and leave a comment!!!

My yout’ dem helped me with the tape but my daughter couldn’t stop laughing!  Bigup Frog & Schmoo!!!

Alright all, soz for lack of updates recently, absolutely no clue why but no new posts I made were appearing, so I’m hoping to get some new (old!) stuff up this week.  The podcasts didn’t materialise due to a stream of computer problems and whatnot, but who cares, here’s the Disco Scratch Funk!

Deffo some dope Black Steel on this tape, there’s a Cutmaster Swift interview at the start with Dave Pearce & Westwood has Original Concept in the studio.  This tape should spark your grey matter!

I’m getting a fair amount of downloads now, and as much as I have no problem with “Hit n Runners”, seeing as the stuff I put up is fairly niche, I’d appreciate a few comments from you lot just to see what you think of these tapes.  I would imagine most people that download stuff or subscribe would be similar to be, a British B Boy at heart.

If you didn’t know, I started a forum a mmonth ago, check it out and let’s try to get an old school UK Hip Hop community together.  More here, http://discoscratch.co.uk/forum

Well, that about does it for this one, more demo’s from the vaults of the Palace of Villainy coming from me & DuckAlert, fresh new beats & mixtape uploads soon!

Peace & Hairgrease, Waxoff!