Disco Scratch

We wax lyrical about as much as we can squeeze into 2 and a bit hours, starting with D’s career in the mid 80s, his roots, his involvement with Liberty Grooves, his vinyl releases and of course, his addiction to plastic!!  Yes the licorice merry go round is in full effect, wax fondlers everywhere need to hear this man drop science on a range of subjects… <p>

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.DuckAlert – The Delta
3.Roxanne Shante – Fly Shante (Inst)
4.MC Rajah – Lyrics With A Vengeance (Inst)
5.MC Mike & DJ Mazey Maze – The Big Payback (Inst)

6.D’s Choice – Treacherous 3 – New Rap Language

7.Biz Markie – Make The Music With Your Mouth Biz
8.Magnetic Force – Hip Hop Bystander (Inst)
9.Lord Shafiyq – My Mic Is On Fire
10.Low Profile – Funky Song (Inst)

11.D’s Choice – MC Shan/Marley Marl – Marley Marl Scratch

12.Loose J & The Master Of Wax – The Hi-Lo Cut (Inst)
13.Ligit – Settin It Strate (Inst)
14.Levi167 – Something Fresh To Swing To (Inst)
15.Kings Of Pressure – Give Me The Mic (Inst)

16.D’s Choice – MC Mello & Dexter – Slow Jam (Out To Johnny F)

17.K Bee & Ceil B – Who Am I (Inst)
18.Just The 2 Of Us – MVP
19.Jah Love – Dance Craze (Inst)
20.JVC Force – Big Trax (Inst)
21.Group Home – Livin Proof (Inst)
22.Drum Machine – Drum Machine (Inst)

23.D’s Choice – Solid N Mind – Centre Stage

24.DuckAlert – Kool Roc Ski (Inst)
25.Depth Charge – Five Deadly Venoms
26.J Dilla – E=MC Squared (Inst)
27.Kool G Rap – On The Run (Untouchables Remix Inst)
28.Lord Finesse – Actual Facts (Inst)
29.Main Source – Live At The BBQ (Remix Inst)

30.D’s Choice – Battle Tipped Rhyme
31.DuckAlert – Dam Izm (Inst)
32.Waxer – Flippin’ (Inst)

33.D’s Choice – True Style – The Enemy Within (Disco Scratch Exclusive)

 Disco Scratch Radio 16 - Whirlwind D [132:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Adult life sometimes throws such a mix of things at you… I can walk in from work, pick up the mail off the floor and open a court summons while my 4 year old daughter is simultaneously saying “Daddy, Daddy!… I drew this for you today!” and presents me with a picture of our dog, Snoop or something.  You know? At least there’s karma there, ying and yang… But this week, I felt like there were no crayon drawings of any pets, just constant hammerings, I felt like I’d been ripped through by a whole team of blood thirsty rugby players .  Worst thing was I couldn’t do anything about it… so what did I do?  Laugh… PISSED myself!  Haha, I had a joke competition and asked people to make me have a good laugh!

And, thank the maker you lot responded and I heard some top drawer jokes!  The winner was my man LG with this killer:

Una Stubbs had a marriage offer from Idi Amin.  She accepted and was then known as Una Amin (younahmean?!) Haha! Sounds funnier when you say it, but well done to him, he wins a CD of Evil Eds Dope LP “The Enthusiast” Courtesy Rare Kind Records

Well, Rhyme Traveller in interview next week, here’s the tracklist, RRRRREEESPECT!!!

DSR 15 – VEXED!!!! Tracklist

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.DuckAlert – Diamond Dust
3.TDS Mob – Dope For The Folkjs
4.Awesome Of Course Crew – Micski Is Blasting
5.Baby T & Devious – Down With The Program
6.MCM – Powermoves
7.Needles & Waxer – Cuts Like An Axe
8.2 The Top – Score To Settle
9.Sirus – Controlling The Funky Pressure
10.SL Troopers – Put Your Brain In Gear
11.Korperayshun – Microphone Nutter
12.Lords Of Rap – Lords Of Rap Theme
13.ThatKidNamedCee – DaKnuckleScrap’R

////// Jam News  \\\\\\

14.MC Duke – Dial Tone ### DISCO SCRATCH EXCLUSIVE #####
15.Lord Digga – Simple Sweet
16.Godfather Don – Why
17.Esoteric – 1989
18.Encona Coarse – The Streets (Unreleased Mix)
19.Original One – Mad Skills
20.Kids In Tracksuits – Head To The Woods

VEXED Joke Competition… winner.. my man LG!!! Respect!

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21.OC – Time’s Up – (Dedicated to DuckAlert)
22.K.I.D. – Big Boss (Out o LG)
23.First Down – No Rest For The Wicked
24.Craig G – Droppin Science
25.Most Wanted – Calm Down
26.Kings Of Pressure – Tales From The Darkside
27.Tragedy – Trag Invasion (Out To Agent Finch)
28.Suspekt – Look Like A Rapper (Out To Rapia)
29.Tuff Crew – Danger Zone

 Disco Scratch 15 Vexed [112:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Disco Scratch Radio 14 - Def J

Back in 1991 I picked up Def J, Mad Bomber and KLA from the train station in Pompey as they had a jam booked at the Polytechnic.  Now I just cannot remember how we got together, I can’t even remember if I hooked it up, I’m sure my man Comic Shop Dan had something to do with organising this… Mr K was a student in Pompey at the time and that was deffo the connection but how it all worked out I just can’t remember… the long and short of it was that these live dudes were in my motor and having a right crack, running down each other with mum jokes, slurping on the blue thunderbirds (all except J) and being raucous, after all, it was a day at the seaside for these guys!!!

This was the start of a friendship lasting nearly 2 decades.  Tonight I bring you Original One, aka Def J, frontman of Encona Coarse, the lyrical scientist who devastated our ear canals with “Rhyme Grenade”, “Streets” and the coveted “Just Save It”.  J’s career is still ongoing and shows no signs of slowing down.  We spoke for over three and a half hours, I managed to get this down to 2 hours and 20 minutes, damn homey is deep!!!  So great to reconnect after all this time… for those that don’t know O1 came and wrecked shop with a dope performance at the Heroes Of UK Hip Hop Jam back in 2007, which was about a year after we reconnected.  Now listen to the story that formed this heavyweight MC and what this lyrical Jedi has done in his career… download after the tracklist…

Links: Original One Main Website

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1.Disco Scratch Intro

2.DuckAlert – Man With 2 Brains

3.Fission – Word (Inst)

4.Thrashpack – Kinda Cool In The Place (Inst)

5.Fission – Kings Of Swing (Bonus Beats)

6.Elite Force – Crack Cutie (Inst)

7.J’s Choice – Arthur Baker – Breakers Revenge

8.Ah Boo – Jungle Pack Man (Instrumental)

9.Almighty 3 – To The Other MCs (Instrumental)

10.Broken Glass – Style Of The Street (Stylestreet)

11.Hardrock Soul Movement – Hardrock Throwdown (Instrumental)

12.MC Craig G – Shout (Instrumental)

13.J’s Choice – Ultramagnetic MCs – Travelling At The Speed Of Thought

14.Richie Rich – My DJ Pump It Up Some

15.Hijack – Style Wars (Inst)

16.Overlord X – 2 Bad (Inst)

17.Craig G – Droppin Science (Beatz)

18.DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Nightmare On My Street (Inst)

19.J’s Choice – Black Radical Mark 2 – England Is A Bitch

20.MC Lyte – Paper Thin (Inst)

21.MC Shan – I Pioneered This (Dub)

22.Skinny Boys – Get Pepped (Inst)

23.Encona Coarse – Rhyme Grenade

24.3rd Bass – 3 Strikes 5000

25.Above The Law – Watcha Can Prove (Inst)

26.Freshki & Mo Rock – Come Along (Inst)

27.Encona Coarse – Streets

28.Unanimous Decision – Making A Living (Inst)

29.Tim Dog – Fuck Compton

30.Point Blank – Planting Semtex

31.Def J – Just Save It

32.DuckAlert – Auto Reverse

33.Waxer – Based In Science

34.DuckAlert – Project 88

35.DuckAlert – Where’s The Soul? (Waxer Remix)

36.Hijack – Hold No Hostage

37.Big Daddy Kane – Wrath Of Kane

38.Easter Egg – Def J Freestyle

 DSR 14 - Def J [140:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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…

Sorry for the lack of shows recently fellers, my old pot and pan hes been unwell, still, probably a lot of people away with school 6 weeks holiday and all that anyway, back next week for an interview show so make sure you lock on to Sensei FM & Freestyle FM for the live stream as usual at 9PM, competitions galore coming up with loads of prizes courtesy Rare Kind Records…

Anyway, here’s a short video explaining all, speak soon, peace!!!

Dust… that’s what I had on my fingers after doing the show tonight.  I should have had some snooker referee gloves on handling the wax for tonight’s show!  Some nice old slabs of late 80s US plastic, as usual digging into the US stack plus a couple of new cuts.  I’m now doing jam news every week, on the top of the hour at 10PM every week.  Starting next week I’m also going to do a Disco Scratch chart.  This will run as a post on the Disco Scratch Forum where you can vote for your favourite tracks of the moment, real basic, best tracks reach the top, those that don’t won’t!  It’ll probably take a bit of fine tuning, it’s not like there’s stacks of new material that appeals to the Disco Scratch audience, so I take it on myself to put say 20 tracks on the site and you can vote for your favourite.

I’ll just see how it goes, it’ll be interesting to see how much interaction there is, I mean I think of Disco Scratch like this… once a week at around ten to 9, old buggers shuffle into a darkened working mans club, put their coats on the stand revealing a faded T Shirt bearing the name of an old UK crew, order a cup of tea, break the seal on a packet of chocolate hob nobs and sit down to sift through the beats entering their domes!  At 11 O’clock, they all say their goodbyes in standard Hip Hop sign off format and leave the room with a warm glow, a tea induced high and a bellyfull of family circle biscuit selections… a happy soul to know that there’s life in the old dog yet! (To Quote Websta!)

I’m the barman, chatting with you all and providing the background music… the fire crackles away in the background while we smile at memories of B Boy battles, scarpering from the plod and rival crews after bombing the neighbourhood and doing pause button mixes…

But, for any hard rocks reading this, trust me, Disco Scratch is no pushover, if need be we’ll form like Voltron (whatever the HELL our yank cousins mean by that!) and throw our Hob Nobs in the air while we grab handfulls of import 12s to battle you with, DON’T test the Disco Scratch Sound System, we’ll draw tracks that’ll stomp the plop out of ya!  Just look at our tracklists from the past shows…

Ahem, anyway, got carried away there, download’s after the tracklist, Enjoy!!!!

DSR12 Dust Track List

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.DuckAlert – The Delta (Instrumental)
3.Majesta – Tough Scene
4.Black Sheep – Forever Luvlee
5.Black Sheep – Birds Of A Feather
6.MC Crash – Life On The Street
7.Majesta – Suckers Just Scam
8.Grandmixer DST – Rock The House In Japan
9.P.Gunn & Mr.I.Till – My Mic & My Handle
10.T.D.S. Mob – Crushin’ ‘Em
11.Tuff Crew – Philly Style
12.Just The 2 Of Us – Most Valuable Poet
13.Rapia – All The Zones
14.Killa Instinct – The Sparrows
15.Original One – Skillz n Grillz

***News & Jam events ****
16.DuckAlert – Auto Reverse (Instrumental)
17.DuckAlert – Down Wit Tha BKs

18.Majesta – Sneezin’
19.PHP – When The Wind Blows
20.Paradox – Soul Feels Free
21.2 The Top – The Matter At Hand
22.Rapia – Code For Doom
23.Def Tex featuring DPF – Synchronise
24.Microdisiacs – Deep Waters
25.Rammelzee – Beat Bop Part 2 (Ft. K Rob)
26.Edan – One Man Arsenal
27.Hostyle – Diane
28.Smooth Tha Hustler – Broken Language
29.Doug E Fresh – Play This Only At Night
30.Waxer – Thanet 808

 Disco Scratch Radio 12 - Dust [116:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Really enjoyed the show tonight, took it into a different zone from normal, dropped some new cuts by Original One & Killa Instinct, flowed from early 90s to mid 2000s and had a guest in the studio, Corrina Joseph to celebrate the life of her sister, Claudia Joseph who was tragically killed at the young age of 14.  The last half hour features Corrina playing some of her favourite funk, soul & rare groove tracks from years gone by, complimented by a Wray & Nephew!

Also this show marks the first live stream on Sensei FM simultaneously with Freestyle FM and it was enjoyed by all… I let the webcam loose and showed the Palace Of Villainy to those that wanted to see my gormless mush!  Hope you enjoy/enjoyed the show and looking forward to a mad deep interview with Original One next week… peace, love & unity… to anyone who has loved and lost, respect.

Download after the tracklist…

DSR 11 – Claudia

1.Disco Scratch Intro
2.Love Unlimited Orchestra – Strange Games And Funky Things
3.DuckAlert – Auto Reverse (Instrumental)
4.Original One – Alien
5.Original One – Mad Sick
6.Killa Instinct – Cracking Up
7.Killa Instinct – Reality An Suffering
8.Chrome & Billy Bollocks – Let The Flavour Flood Out
9.Rhyme Asylum – The Uprising
10.Trevor Jones – The Death Of Arthur (Bigup Repo136 for the Style Wars OST)
11.Sirus – Controlling The Funky Pressure
12.Silver Bullet – Ruff Karnage
13.Daddy Freddy – Haul and Pull
14.First Down – Seven MCs
15.Demon Boyz – Glimmity Glammity
16.Suspekt – Look Like A Rapper
17.Suspekt – Blow Up
18.Jehst – Alien
19.Jay Glaze – Out To Lunch
20.Tommy Evans – The Four Horsemen
21.Daddy Skitz – Fingerprintz Of The Godz
22.Klashnekoff – Jankrowville
23.Skinnyman – It’s Over
24.Arsonists – Flashback
25.Rammelzee vs K Rob – Beat Bop ( RIP Rammelzee) Born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York in 1960, died in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York on June 27, 2010 at age 49

Section dedicated to Claudia Joseph with the missus Corrina Joseph

26.Ramsey Lewis – Les Fleurs
27.Gwen Mcrae – 90% of me is you
28.Gwen McRae – Mechanical Body
29.Joe Cocker – Woman To Woman
30.Love Unlimited – If You Want Me
31.Jones Girls – Nights Over Egypt

This show is dedicated to Claudia Joseph but goes out to anyone that’s loved and lost in life… respect…

 Disco Scratc Radio 11 - Claudia [122:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Disco Scratch Radio 10 - Biscuits

More flavour than you can shake a Fox’s butter at, Disco Scratch Radio pushes sound waves into your shell-likes again with 2 hours of flirting with the danger and suspense of gritty hardcore UK rap, balanced with some nice Family Circle biscuits and a decent cup of tea, none of your foreign muck mind, proper PG Tips.  In a china cup.  Cos it tastes better.

Banter a plenty in the chat (unfortunately Fire-poxy-fox crashed so I lost all the chatroom talk for the nerds), good selection of LP cuts tonight, a break to the beat version excursion competition and spotlight on my man LG from Style Warrior.  He got on the old dog and bone for 10 minutes to chat about his website, T Shirts and the extra dope Heroes print, kindly donated to my homeboy Agent FINCH down in Bournemouth, winner of the Break To The Beat competition.

Here’s some pictures of the Music Of Life T Shirt and “Heroes” Prints he has on offer on his site:

Officially licensed from Simon Harris and super heavy decent material, looking forward to gettin’ my shizzle!

LG Sent me one of these dope “Heroes” prints, now waiting to be framed and up on my dining room wall…love it, highly recomended…

Well, get stuck into the show, respect to all that locked in, here’s your tracklist, download at the bottom:

1.Disco Scratch Radio Intro
2.DuckAlert – Def Jam
3.Solid N Mind – Centre Stage
4.PD3 – Noisy Music Part 2
5.MC Rell & The House Rockers – Into The Future
6.Superlover Cee & Cassanova Rud – Girls I got ‘em Locked
7.K9 Posse – Ain’t Nuthin To it
8.DuckAlert – Project 88 (Instrumental)
9.DuckAlert – Game Punk (Instrumental)
10.DuckAlert – Down With The BKs (Instrumental)
11.Percee Pee – Ekim – Lung Collapsin Lyrics
12.Demon Boyz – International Karate
13.MC Mello – Subtraction
14.Katch 22 – Ghetto Child
15.Killa Instinct -  Un-United Kingdom

Special Guest – LG (LoveGrove)

16.SL Trooper – Put Your Brain In Gear (Instrumental)
17.NSO Force – N 2 Deep (Instrumental)
18.Waxer – Based In Science (Instrumental)

Break To The Beat Version Excursion:

Kool & The Gang – Who’s Gonna Take The Weight?

19.Waxer – My Poetry’s Deep featuring Theory 77 on the cuts & rhymes
20.Def Tex – Look Left Look Right
21.Hijack – Jamaican Crime Wave
22.TCM – Urban Warfare

Break To The Beat Version Excursion:

Caveman – You Can’t Take It

*** maximum respect to Agent Finch for winning the competition
& respect to LG for the competition prize, the Heroes print.

23.Disco Scratch Exclusive – KLA – Soldier Of The Field (Demo)
24.Disco Scratch Exclusive – Def J – Backlash

Freestyle Requests – Palace Of Villainy Burners

25.Stylee Cee & Cappo – Tell Them (Request by AMBUSH)
26.The SYndicate – Can’t Get Enough
27.Son Of Noise – 3 Minutes Of Violence (Multiple Requests)
28.SL Troopers – Movement (Request by Agent FINCH)
29.Hardnoise – Mice In The Presence Of The Lion
30.Hardnoise – Serve Tea Then Murder
31.Masta Ace – I Got Ta (Request by Repo)
32.Waxer – The Illest

You Hum it son, I’ll Play it

respect to DuckAlert for always coming with the high Jammy’s

http://dopetracks.com/duckalert

 Disco Scratch Radio 10 - Biscuits [116:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Disco Scratch 9 MC Duke

The thing about having so much love for the old school UK scene is I am a fan as much as I am someone who runs a website.  These interviews are so fascinating and uncover so much stuff, I don’t think I’ll stop until I’ve unearthed every rock of UK Hip Hop!  MC Duke has blessed me with a couple of hours of his time and gone into serious depth about his roots in the Hip Hop culture.

For the uninitiated, MC Duke started with Hip Hop from it’s very first inception in the UK.  Before Hip Hop was even in the UK he was a record boy with his dad, learning the craft and being able to DJ and hold a crowd with just one turntable and a mic.  This was well before Rappers Delight even hit these shores.  From his early trip to the Bronx and return to the UK with his experiences in Covent Garden, through the golden era of UK Hip Hop, there’s practically nothing Duke hasn’t experienced or seen.

Duke unearths loads of gems about the old school sphere of Hip Hop in it’s fledgling years, discussing the formation of the early scene, his years on Music Of Life, events he attended and touches on the infamous situation with Overlord X.  He also answers the questions put in by members of the Heroes Of UK Hip Hop Forum and the Disco Scratch forum.  It was a pleasure to verbalise with Duke and I hope all the listeners to the Disco Scratch Show also enjoy this…

Big respect to Duke and his extended fam for the time, energy and love for the true school of UK Hip Hop. Download after the tracklist…

1.Disco Scratch Intro
2.DuckAlert – Project 88
3.Son Of Noise – The Mighty Son Of Noise (Instrumental)
4.SL Troopers – Systematic Terror (Instrumental)
5.Rude Boy Business – Cool Sailing (Instrumental)
6.Bushkiller – Troublemakers (Instrumental)
7.Duke’s Choice – Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove
8.Fission – Word (Instrumental)
9.Duke’s Choice – George Duke – Brazilian Love Affair
10.Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock (Beats)
11.Broken Glass – Street Style (Beats)
12.Einstein – Friday Night & Saturday Morning (Instrumental)
13.Derek B – Rock The Beat (Instrumental)
14.Demon Boyz – Vibes (Instrumental)
15.MC Duke – Jus Dis
16.Powerlords – British Mic Control (Instrumental)
17.Cash Crew – You Can’t Stop This (Instrumental)
18.The Principle ft Silent Eclipse – Your Rap Machine Is Broken (Instrumental)
19.MCs Logic – Get Involved (Bonus Beats)
20.MC Wildski – Warrir (Warrior Beats)
21.MC Duke – I Don’t Care Anymore
22.MC Duke – Free
23.Richie Rich – My DJ (Pump It Up Some)
24.Hijack – The Badman Is Robbin (Instrumental)
25.Blade – Lyrical Maniac (Bonus Beats)
26.2 The Top – Score To Settle (Instrumental)
27.Waxer – Based In Science (Instrumental)
28.MC Duke (Medley) Miracles/Throw Your Hands In The Air/I’m Riffin
29.Public Enemy – Shut ‘Em Down (Pete Rock Remix Instrumental)
30.ATL – Murder Rap (Instrumental)
31.Brand Nubian – Drop The Bomb (Instrumental)
32.Pete Rock – Classic (Instrumental)
33.Group Home – The Realness (Instrumental)
34.Master Ace – Style Wars Remix (Instrumental)
35.Overlord X – 2 Bad (Instrumental)
36.Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown – Unity
37.Gunshot – Children Of A Dying Breed (Instrumental)
38.Hijack – Syndicate Outta Jail (Instrumental)
39.Duke’s Choice – Sly & The Family Stone – Family Affair

 Disco Scratch Radio 9 MC Duke in Interview [148:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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’

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